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  • Western Carolina University
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  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1968-09-24_Vol34_No01_05

Tuesday, September 24, 1968 THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN Page 5 The Broken Window By Freeman D. Jones Sights And Insights By Jerry Conner Hello Americans. Welcome to the glamourous exciting campus of Western Carolina University — oasis of Knowledge in the vast desert of ignorance out THERE, Hail to thee, our Alma Mater . , . WCU greatest escape from reality since the invention of LSD, but let's face it If we were out to get an education we wouldn't be here now would we. Just take a big old overdose of WCU and sit around and listen to your chromosomes snap, or the rats carry off your footlocker or the roaches staging field maneuvers in vour closet — HUP, HUP, HUP. Isnt college fun. Hello fraps you draft dodging little products of the Great Society you. How do you feel now that you've signed away all your inalienable rights? Not too great a price to pay for a toehold in "The System"y they say. But try sometime to find out just who THEY are. Such knowledge comes as a sort of grisly by-product of four years study. You're welcome here. This is your school and these are your teachers they are your friends. These are your deans — see them smile and pat your on the back. You will get along just fine ... as long as you stay in line and you had darn well better do just that because the first time you . . . uh . . . mess up the great ambiguous THEY will become a screaming reality to you. Just look at it as a consciousness expanding experience. Have we all got our beanies on, heh! heh! heh! Don't we all like our college tradition. Doesn't our beany look good with our wardrobe. Oh look oh see. Oh see the gold and purple beany. See it clash with the green banlon.. See it clash with the orange banlon. See it clash. Clash beany- clash. See it clash with the fraps Embarasment Red face. Oh look. Oh see. But don't you dare have gall enough to admit just how absurd you look and how ridiculous you feel, this is all a part of your training for LIFE, Just think some day you may be a convention delegate. Are you all nice and oriented yet? Do you know where your room is? Well it doesn't matter you probably won't spend any more time there than you absolutely have to. Do you know where our new cafeteria is? It's that aluminum and glass thing that looks as If gome other equally disoriented alien splattered his flying saucer into the bank. Maybe he was swerving to avoid our nine story non-rise dormitory. Just as a thought have vour tried finding any of the places you saw pictured in the col lege catalogue or the student handbook? If you're looking for the gurgling waterfall with the sexy looking blond gazing pensively into it you will find it in the Tuckasegee about 100 yards up from the dead pig, a little to the left of the Cullowhee Gar age • New and Used Parts, Or maybe you would like to see the pool with the hokey looking little benches and the guy sticking his loafer into the water. Well just look for the steam plants smoke stack and you'll find this charming scene to be right in its shadow. All this may lead you to believe that Western has one of the largest photography schools in the south but if you will check around you'll see our Photography Department consists of one course and it's handled by Industrial Arts. WCU — LSD. Reality? Reality is not a crutch but more nearly a short-circuited iron lung. How wouldyou like some facts and figures? You are 27 miles from the nearest legal beer. You are seven miles from a liquor store. You can buy it but don't get caught drinking it. You are 56 miles from the nearest town and that's only Asheville, If you want to call out of here on the phone, do so before noon. There are seven lines from Cullowhee to Sylva servicing not only the college but a couple thousand other people stuck off in the nooks and crannies surrounding it, If you have visions of working "after school and on Saturdays" for a little beer and cigarette money forget it. If you don't have a car you are out of luck If however you do have a car you are out of luck anyway. You will spend the entire year trying to find a place to park. Either that or trying to excavate it from tiie reams of parking tickets THE LAW are so fond of using to Hall paper cars. l.esl I begin to sound voci • ferous and dissident let me tell you about the good side of life in the Valle\ of the Lilies, You'll love the weather, at least until it gets bad. If you get tired of the rain - lake heart — it snows here too, often and deep, You'll lovelhefood If nothing else consistent quality is some thing. So lassie loafer time in Cul lowhee - freshmen beanying around looking oriented, Greeks trying to out Impress each other. Deans filing their fangs, THE LAW uncrating this quarters boxcar of tickets. Co-eds looking co-educational. The buildings looking plastic and aluminum. The faculty looking mass eaten. The hell ■ raising, fire-eating, dean- lynching minority plotting and scheming and things pretty generally back to (HO HUM) normal. CULLOWHEE BARBER SHOP Your Hminut At Tom Like It Lebern Dills Bruce Middle** Across From College Gulf OPEN TUES. —SAT. %M The Sisters of ci ( ZETA TAU ALPHA Welcome All New Students The Sisters of ALPHA XI DELTA Welcome All New Students What is College? The question that puzzles everyone, whether you are new or a former student, the answer is a result of a pause and a contemplation. You leave behind you the world you have known for some 18 years and enter into a type of infinity, a motionless state, you have left behind the past, and haven't quite reached the future. So what is in store— a journey— a complete world set apart from any other. T he warm hearted mother that listened to yoiu- every plea has vanished, H ?r gentle pushes and words of encouragement are gone. Instead, you find a fantasy w >rld, It's one of make believe and suspense tied together with a sprinkle of drama. You find that self discipline is a by word and responsibility a key that unlocks the door leading to tomorrow, A m >ck government creates the laws and preserves the moral and social morays, It is enforced by a magistrate court composed of administrators as judge and jury and an enforcement agency of the cam • pus security patrol, all for the protection and general welfare of the student, A court of appeals, the student government, has been set up to hear the pleas of students and represent them to this court and if not heard to the Supreme Court judge - the President, Moving from government al affairs, one passes into the social life, For the elite, numerous soirees are presented annually by various Greeks, Together with special type debutant balls this social set features many other advantages, To become a member, one must climb the ladder and file in rank to meet the demands of the in group. Stepping down the ladder, there is the middle - of - the - road group. These people have all the fun toact tain degree and pay none of the dues. Yet they arent on top. They have and opportunity to improve and possibly ascend, Located at the bottom of the ladder are those who drink excessively and know no other social event than a trip to Clydes and then on to River Road Their only vocabulary words consist of a prefix of three and four letters. Now on to the dally grind of work. One rises In the morning and sits through the day soaking In a little knowlege. This process continues until one day you wake up with a new feeling. That is the feeling of knowlege. At the end of the days toils the labor of night life begins. Life goes on day after day. A few victims are tried and a few are excommunicated from campus life. But the rewards are great and compensate for that daily grind of W-0 R K, Then one day you are handed a key, only a small piece of paper, but it unlocks the door to the out side world Dnce on the ourside you learn that you have just passed through a fantasy world - a small Infinity ■ never to return again. The Cat's Paw Perhaps it is rather pointless to say this, because everyone knows what time of the year this is or you wouldn't be here spending your parent's lovely money, but at any rate,it's that time again, You old folks, you know what time it is. it's time for wasting your life away in the drop-add lines only to find out that the professor you were trying your best to ditch isn't half the idiot that the new man is. It is also time for life's endless struggle of whether to head for home sw.eet homG on Friday or stick around and watch the new concrete crumble over the weekend Freshmen (Oh, why so many), you are really in for a new type of education. You will be on wrong end of manynot=so=funny jokes, which come not only from your dearest of idols, the upper classmen, but from your friends that sit at the front of the class room. What makes you think you deserve a "B" in a course just because you average 102 on all of the quizes. And something else for you fun loving first year men, don't think that you are going to date that cute little thing that you saw bending By The Inimitable PAW down to open her post office box. If she even looks just the least bit better than the front of a totaled Edsel, she has been watched and probably signed, sealed , and delivered by o.ne of your friendly upper classmen. Freshmen women, if you are on your toes and gargle with the right stuff, you might be able to find the older man of your dreams. But beware, many of mothers sweet little things have been led down the nearest nasty path by that slick junior with the perma- pressed hair and chrome plated bill fold Some more food for thought for you lower class citizens. BEWARE of Greeks bearing free favors and rides over the hill. Be cool frosh, you may not be able to take up the pin for at least a quarter, but you can bet your last pair of yellow socks that you are being watched by someone, whether it is the the Greater Sylva Ping Ponf Champions or a group of rejuvenated Civil W*r veterans. That's right fellow, it is now time to muster up all of the impressing power you posses , That means no more smoking cigars, the smoke hangs right under the rim of your beanie and none of the stone gods can tell whether you are a turkey or future fellow snob. If you don't have a new banlon for every day of the week, be sure your father is at least next in line for the Pabst Brewery fortune. A millionaire or two in the immediate fam'ly seems to make up for a lot of shortcomings in the potential rushee. You freshmen ladies are up the same creek, don't be caught with a loser. For one thing, if you are caught doing the wrong thing with that loser, the dorm hostess will certainly frown down upon you, and besides that the queenly sisters are most concerned about who their future associates mingle with. Now, young scholars you have a small, very small, idea of what sort of thing you will be facing. But you will also be facing one of the most important times of your lives, so, before it is too late, remember what you are here for, which is not to skip the draft or find a husband, but to get some semblance of an eduaction. Paw's Platitudes . , r Why write on the bathroom walls? Thetoiletpaper is made of much stiffer material. If the shoe fits, don't wear it.Ot wont look good without socks.) Grief can take care of itself but to get the full value of joy you must have someone to share it with. Mark Twain

The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University’s student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.

• Creator
  • Western Carolina University
• Format
  • Publications (documents)
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• Date
  • Date original: 1968-09-24;
  • Date digitized: 2017-10-27
• Extent
  • Dimension: 15.75" x 11"
  • Pages: 12 pages
• Subject - Topic
  • College student newspapers and periodicals
  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
  • Universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee -- Newspapers
• Location
  • Jackson County (N.C.)
  • Cullowhee (N.C.)
• Source institution
  • Western Carolina University
• Source Collection
  • WCU Students Newspapers Collection
• Identifier
  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1968-09-24_Vol34_No01
• Repository
  • Western Carolina University Hunter Library