Office of Development makes changes to keep tuition low by Sylvia V. Long The Office of Development has the 1977-78 fiscal year income contacting large businesses and increased its activity and its from gifts, grants and the en corporations across the country, revenue since being criticized by dowment reached $770 per as well as in the Fox Valley area. the Long-Range Planning Task student over the $429 of the President Smith claims to spend Force in May 1977 for main proceeding year. Wrolstad hopes 40 percent of his time raising taining a level of current that endowment and gift incomes funds for development. Faculty development income per student can reach 32 percent of total far below average among operating costs within the next selective colleges. few years. This would bring Endowment Increases in development Lawrence up to par with com per income can mean keeping tuition parable selective colleges. ACM Tuition for Student rates constant despite inflation Expanded efforts School ’78-’79 ’75-76 and continuous increases in Meader explained that the (Latest figures available) operational costs. Since last year, development office has been Beloit 4,200 9,634 when Lawrence’s tuition became expanding its solicitation efforts Carleton 3,992 23,970 the highest in the ACM, holding and has enlisted the support of Coe 3,300 10,033 down student fees has been a administrators, students, faculty Colorado 3.600 12,000 major concern of administrators and trustees. More students Cornell 3,580 13,623 Having a deficit will not weaken the institution, Grinnell 4,280 17,000 Knox but will enable Lawrence to gradually scale down 4,280 16,000 Lake Forest 4,265 3,000 expenditures without making abrupt and serious Lawrence 4,350 18,000 cutbacks in staff and programming. These cutbacks Macalester 3,900 11,428 have been determined necessary in view of the pro Monmouth 3,195 4,857 jected decline in college-age students in coming Ripon 3,755 4,210 years.______St. Olaf 3,325 * 2,000 and trustees. In the words of reportedly participated in the help is enlisted to approach Marwin Wrolstad, vice president Phonathon last spring than ever organizations known to have a for business affairs, “we don’t have in the past. The Phonathon specific interest or to restrict its want to be priced out of the is a fund-raising drive in which donation to a specific field. Ac market.” students call alums and ask them cording to Meader, it is better to According to Davol Meader, to give to Lawrence. Trustees are vice president of development also increasing their par DAVOL MEADER, vice president of external affairs. — '* »- r°fT“ il ticipation in fund-raising by —Photo: Anne Rieselbach and external affairs, at the end of - ! B R A R Y
P t * • * ' J hsk them whfe'ii Wa» v e at one of the Friday and Saturday night Ts r Therefore, after considering students priorities, ideas which can be used to get students involved in ¿[ies. such as LUCC, The Lawrentian, The Ariel, The Lawre ^ ence our critics. 'AJCC regulation, to be voted on at next Vol. XCVII-No. 9 Lawrence University Appleton Wisconsin 54911 ij, 'h would prohibit the possession or use of , , ■ ■'age on campus. Better yet, propose a « utlaw stereos on campus, and would
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London Center Recruitment changes increase number of prospects appointments by Fred Bartol by Diane Odeen Lawrence’s new-student a year ago. He also said that the extracurricular aspects of members have visited about 25 The director and assistant recruitment program for this number of prospects is up. He Lawrence as well as academics. high schools in Wisconsin. This is director of Lawrence’s London year is going well, according to added that the program began Bussee believes it will attract the in addition to the five members of Center have been named for the David Busse, director of ad earlier this year than last. He attention of more potential the admission staff who are on 1979-80 academic year. Replacing mission and financial aid. also said that the higher per Lawrentians. “It’s more likely to the road recruiting. Two staff Elizabeth Forter, Professor of In an interview this week, centage of inquiries will not be read if it’s not as lengthy and members generally remain to English, as director of the Center Busse cited increased visitation necessarily mean a higher has more pictures,” Busse said. handle visits and interviews on will be Professor Richard from June to October of about 8 percentage of applications. He added that, though shorter, campus. Busse also credited the Sanerib, Assistant Professor of percent over last year. He said he Asked about changes in the 1979-80 “About Lawrence” student tour guides and hosts for Mathematics. Professor Thomas will have to wait to see more Lawrence’s approach to contains more information than helping in the recruitment Dale of the English Department figures before he can determine recruitment, Busse pointed to the the 1976-78 edition. “We now have process. “Alumni are also will take the place of James just how well the program is latest edition of “About every course listed. So the con assisting by referring students to Ming, Professor of Music, as doing. “ It’s encouraging, but I Lawrence,” the catalogue for tent is even greater,” Busse us,” he added. assistant director. can’t prove anything yet. It’s all prospective students. According points out. Busse also commented on the The courses offered for the ’79- subjective right now.” to Busse, the new booklet is more More Recruiters recruitment situation for small, 80 year have also been an Busse said his office has readable and about half as long Busse also noted increases in liberal arts colleges in general. nounced. received more inquiries about as its predecessor. He says it is the number of persons involved in He pointed out that the total First term, Math 7 (Elemen Lawrence at this point than it had more colorful and stresses the the recruitment process. Faculty number of students enrolling in tary Statistics) and a revised colleges has been increasing, but Math 10 course will be taught by that many of these students have Professor Sanerib. Professor gone to larger, less-expensive Dale will be teaching an in institutions. Part of the problem, dividualized Expository Writing according to Busse, is that the class (Eng. 11-20) and Major price difference between small British Writers I (Eng. 23). private schools and large state A University course on science institutions has increased. As a fiction will be taught by result, financial aid is an im Professor Sanerib second term, portant factor. “There are still with an emphasis on British many myths about financial aid. writers. Sanerib will also teach Many parents haven’t even Calculus IA (Math 12). Dale will thought about it until their son’s teach a class on dramatic or daughter’s senior year in high literature, emphasising those school. One thing we are trying to plays being performed in London. do is to get parents to begin Literary Analysis (Eng. 10) will considering financial aid also be offered. earlier.” The British faculty at the In promoting Lawrence to high London Center includes Mr. Allan school students, Busse said that Beattie (Government), Ms. the admissions office stresses a Susan Lea Doran (History), and variety of points. Among these Mr. Ronald Ryer (Art). are: the overall quality of the Other unconfirmed classes institution, the excellence of the offered in the 1979-80 academic faculty, the small number of year are those presently offered students, the high degree of this year in Ixmdon. First term: personal attention, the many Art 17L—Art History Survey diverse off-campus programs, (Ryer) and Government 39L— and the superior opportunities for Modern British politics (Beattie) involvement in extracurricular will be offered. Second term, activities which Lawrence Government 39L will be provides. repeated, and History 281. (History of England: 1485-1750) will be taught by Ms. Doran. Third term, Art 17 will be con’t on page 4 -Photo: Anne Kinelbach Page 2 The LAW RENTIAN 17 November 1978
Mcniher ol thf Letters To The Editor The <1SS< >C I d t e D c o n e o ia t< 0 Lawrentian pkessia3 Have you hugged a squirrel today? Vol. X C V II—No. 9, Friday 17 November 1978 Dear Editor, know it, the squirrels will be escapes rather than trees! This is Phones: Office: ext. 600, Business mgr., ext. 320, Editor-in-chief, A crisis has hit the campus. It pushing people off the sidewalks terrible! ext. 674. Published weekly during the school year, except during has come to my attention that the to make room for themselves. We Therefore, I propose that when examination periods bv The Lawrentian of Lawrence University. squirrel population in the cannot have this! People were anyone sees a squirrel that is not Printed by The Bulletin. Inc., of Appleton. Deadline for copy is Lawrence area is incredibly meant to walk on sidewalks, and appropriately responding to the 8 p.m. Wednesday night. All copy handed into the Lawrentian apathetic. Counter to their squirrels were meant to climb presence of a human, that they ftiust be typed and double-spaced. All letters to the editor must be nature, the squirrels on the trees. chase it. Chase it until it climbs a signed and typed, but names may be omitted upon request. grounds pay no attention to the Recently, a faction of tree and please, for the squirrel’s Year subscription $6.50; overseas airmail $20, seamail $7.50. Second people milling about. If we were Lawrence students, although sake, don’t stop until it climbs a clas^ostag^ai^^Appleton^M scosi!^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ their enemies, we could have small, has started a campaign to tree. squirrel stew for months (Please rectify this very grievous I feel that this new policy will don’t mention that to Downer)! situation. In doing so, we have show a marked improvement in 1 admit it is nice to have token found that the squirrels are so the squirrel’s attitude. In closing, Will the P.E. requirement remain? wildlife around, but it is at the accustomed to this life that when I say keep the wildlife wild! This week we sent a reporter over to Sampson House expense of the innocent squirrels. chased, they choose to climb fire — M ICH A EL K0RTKN110F to do a follow up story on whether the faculty would have If we let this continue before you a chance to decide next term on whether to drop the physi cal education requirement. You may remember that at the final faculty meeting last year, Rik Warch, the vice-presi Stuck in the closet? dent of Academic Affairs, proposed that a special ad hoc Dogs and meat committee be set up to consider the probable ramifications As of Friday, November 17, the counselling service is only an alternative to other forms of behind dropping such a requirement. The faculty originally Why haven’t we been seeing Committee for Gay Awareness counselling that may be sought. was supposed to vote on the Committee on Instruction’s many dogs around campus this will be instituting a new service The Committee’s service should year? Why haven’t we been for Lawrence University and the recommendation to abolish the requirement, until Warch not be viewed as a replacement of eating quality meat at Downer Appleton area. Essentially, the proposed that a special committee be created instead to those other counselors. The one this Term? service is a hotline-counselling further investigate the matter. Presently, all students are thing that the Committee can Have you ever stopped to program designed to help and required to take at least three terms of P.E. (or their equi offer is personal advice, a truly wonder how closely related these advise those people who are gay, sympathetic ear, and a real valent) in order to graduate from Lawrence. two topics are to one another? or think they might be gay, and understanding of the problems So what has this special committee, which is chaired by Have you ever wondered why the are having difficulty coping with that gays—both in and out of the Warch and made up of three faculty members, three mem Humane Society’s van has been their situation. closet—endure. bers of the physical education department, three students, parked outside of Downer bet Since the Committee has no If you are gay, and you need and the Vice-President of Campus Life Deborah Townsend ween the hours of 10-11 every central meeting place or office, single morning? Have you ever the system is set up so that someone to lean on; if you think done this term? Absolutely nothing. For one, only two of the you might be gay. and just need wondered why Mr. Food likes callers may reach Mary Hale at to talk it out; if you have a friend three jjtq / ^ tj^ s jtio n s have been fulfilled so far - which only cats for pets? ext. 362 or Stuart Spencer at ext. who you think might be gay and toppedDpped by a 33 yard touchdown vtJft' iuVffirult for the committee to Well, this is all besides the 381. Some reasonable hour after pass. Petran had good protection Ripon came ri>M. Fall Term, 1978 AMR0W8 Final Exam Schedule Class Exam Meeting RESTAURANT Time Time THE TOTAL PICTURE Wed Dec 6 8 30 am 11 10 MW1 1 30 pm 2 30 TT Take a Break 205 E. Lawrence St., Appleton, Wl 54911 Thurs Dec 7 8 30 am 8 30 MWf & 1 30 pm 8 00 TT From Downer (414)731-8950 Fn Dec 8 8 30 am 10 00 TT In the Cattle, across from the YMCA 1 30pm ? bOMWf Sat Dec 9 8 30 am 1 30MWF Cameras, Framing, Studio 1 30pm 9 50 MWf 2 Blocks from Campus £ 17 November 1978 The LAW RENTIAN Page 3 pDEALING Enter SUPER. EDITOR/" I ~ û h ,/ 7*3tf... there's nothing on HOOVES f f Have I ¿ota. burner has it that Mo.no,-that5 jubt which tû dû à ¿artcsn this thô Art AifcoclabtfVi .scoop -for a cartoon. the Phi Delb stole week.. a. bunch atbumpers Jdte>t >pontd^oui Gœh.» there's nothing and piled them 6ver omceptual artpiece. tò do a cartûùii on this wôôk.. Office of Development. . . tuition low Loose Notes con t from page 1 agreement that they be used in a Smith added, however, that there by Mike Stein certain way for a certain pur are other important con It seems to be popular opinion today that students are very send someone with whom the pose, often a purpose the siderations, and some present apathetic. Less than 50 percent of the eligible young voters took potential donor can identify, . . university does not consider one needs are more important than the time to cast their ballots on Nov. 7. With all due respect to better to send a friend than a of its more pressing needs. Only the long-term need to accumulate their critics, however, I don’t think that LU students are stranger.” unrestricted gifts and gifts to the funds in the endowment. showing apathy. In contrast, they are a very active group of Mailings to potential donors, endowment can directly or in Having a deficit will not people. They have simply adjusted their priorities so that they including parents, alumni and directly be used to finance weaken the institution, but will can funnel their energy into the areas that are really important friends of the university, have current operating costs. enable Lawrence to gradually to them. also increased. Meader said his Unrestricted gifts determine how scale down expenditures without The next time someone tells me that students don’t get in office has increased its mailings much money is available per making abrupt and serious volved in school activities. I’ll tell them to go look at the crowd by 20 percent as well as increased student and thus influence the cutbacks in staff and at Happy Hour, or at a rush party. Or, if someone tells me that the number of inserts in each yearly rate by which tuition rises. programming. These cutbacks Special Events Committee is losing money because students envelope. Last year, in fact, he Unrestricted Gifts have been determined necessary won t participate in their activities. I’ll ask them when was the spent 20 percent over his non Most unrestricted gifts are put in view of the projected decline in last time that they were at one of the Friday and Saturday night salary budget, an action sanc into what is called a quasi college-age students in coming X-rated films? Therefore, after considering students priorities, tioned by the president because endowment by the trustees. Like years. Smith said the university I have a few ideas which can be used to get students involved in of his recognition that some costs the regular endowment, the is particularly interested in “official” activities, such as LUCC, The Lawrentian. The Ariel, cannot be foreseen. In Smith’s quasi-endowment is invested for avoiding curriculum etc., and thus silence our critics. words, “efforts by the the sole purpose of making m anipulation to increase development office cannot be th money to pay for current enrollment. “Those schools 1) Propose an LUCC regulation, to be voted on at next warted.” operating costs. The difference is which have turned to vocational week’s meeting, which would prohibit the possession or use of programs for the purpose of any alchoholic beverage on campus. Better yet, propose a Since last year, when Lawrence's tuition became increasing their enrollment have regulation that would outlaw stereos on campus, and would diluted their quality and deluded require all students to wake up at 7:30a.m. on Sunday. The next the highest in the ACM, holding down student fees their students,” he said. LUCC meeting would be so well attended that it would have to be has been a major concern of administrators and In the Task Force report of last held in the Chapel. Students would suddenly become so in trustees. In the words of Marvin Wrolstad, vice-presi year it was determined that while terested in student government that it would silence even the the selective colleges had most suspecting critics of the apathetic student. Of course, the dent for business affairs, "we don't want to be collectively accumulated a 2 regulation would be voted down at the next meeting and no harm priced out of the market." percent deficit, Lawrence had would come. accumulated a 2 percent deficit 2) Announce that The Ariel is considering changing to a on its own. Increases in revenues pornographic format. The Ariel office would suddenly be Mailings to alums include a that, while the university can accumulated by the development flooded with applicants for editors, writers, and especially, booklet listing companies that legally take a loan from the quasi-endowment, the regular office over the past year have photographers. Of course, after they have enough people in match gifts by their employees volved and committed, they can announce that the proposed endowment can only be invested. shown marked improvement. and describing other gift op format has been rejected by the editor-in-chief, and this year’s Thus, Lawrence’s current deficit Yet, according to Wrolstad, portunities. For example, one Ariel will not have a pornographic format. This would then results from the university “This is not enough, income from new opportunity for giving has result in a large number of applicants for editor-in-chief for next borrowing money from its quasi unrestricted gifts should continue been provided by an alum who year so that they can repropose the porno format. endowment to finance its out to exceed the rate of inflation so has challenged other alums to 3) Have the registrar “accidently” print, in next year’s standing debts. According to that in increasingly large match his offer to pledge $3.500 Course Catalog, that three full credits will be given for par President Smith, most colleges proportion of costs can be met.” for the dedication of a room in ticipation in officially recognized campus organizations. This run deficits in this manner. Smith Only then will the ad Main Hall to Elisabeth Koffka, would spread very quickly by word of mouth, as very few people points out that the trustees often ministration and the trustees be professor emerita of intellectual read much of the catalog. Nevertheless, this would bring about a emphasize that the long term able to hold tuition down at a history. Alumni also receive four tremendous increase in the number of people participating in health of the institution depends level which will continue to make issues of the alumni magazine a campus organizations. Then, early next year, an official an upon its maintenance of a con a Lawrence education a viable year. The magazine reports on nouncement can be issued, stating that it was all a mistake, that stantly growing endowment. The option for college-bound students. campus developments and on the Registrar is sorry, and that he, “doesn’t understand how it endowment currently generates svents in the lives of alums. could have happened.” $1,400,000 in revenue a year. Meader said that the number of The possibilities along these lines are innumerable. Of mailings to alums has been course, these are all harmless, as they produce no permanent joubled and the cost of keeping effect, except perhaps to get a few more students interested in an alum on the “alumni of campus activities and organizations. But then, if nobody record” list, including the cost responded to these changes, we could just carry through with involved in coordinating reunions them. We’d have no booze or stereos allowed on campus, a lot of and other alumni functions, has tired people around on Sunday, a porno yearbook, and a wasted, reached $50 per person. He also Pizza generous offer by the Registrar. noted that alumni giving has decreased since its high level of 26 percent a few years ago. With these facts in mind, he plans to Palace eliminate the names of non givers from his alumni of record file, while continuing to increase the number of mailings and brochures sent to those who do give. New Drive for Support Meader explains that while the new drive for support from Now Serving: it Great Pizzas parents, alums and friends of the —Come meet your Devil university was partly responsible it Super Sub Sandwiches for the $100,000 of revenue over ★ Vi lb. Hamburgers at the home of the budget raised last year, most of it Double Crusted Pie Pizza the development office’s efforts must be directed at getting large Get Your FREE P IZ Z A Red Devil gifts. “Assuming inflation,” he said, “the college must identify Save 10 delivered Pizza coupons and receive and obtain million-dollar gifts one Free Pizza! with some regularity.” A large Delivery til 1:00 am Play Pin Games number of these gifts come from 815 W. College Ave. 734-9131 Bowl Machines, foundations whose sole purpose is Juke Box or Study at funneling funds to worthwhile Jim 's Place causes. DELIVERY TIL I A.M. Large gifts, however, 223 E. College Ave. frequently prove troublesome 8 1 5 W. C o lle g e A v e n u e because they are often restricted 784-9131 ones. These are given only under Page 4 The LAWRENT1AN 17 November 1978 Costa Rica: ‘culturally fascinating’, ‘Land of Eternal Spring frogs? How about four different do with social research and spend by Susy Dawson corporated much of the Spanish produces good milk and decent, kinds of monkeys, several dif two weeks in the field doing in “ I’m going to Costa Rica in culture into their own, they are exportable beef. ferent snakes including the dependent research. The Spring January” , I told my parents’ If Costa Rica isn’t famous for still definitely Jamaicans. They dreaded fer-de-lance, or huge program, by far the most friends. “Oh that’s nice, my its bananas or hamburger, then it speak a beautiful mixture of flocks of parrots and other popular, is loosely structured and sister went there last year—but should be known for its people. Spanish, English and maybe a tropical birds? Like ar geared more toward independent she pronounced it ‘Puerto Rico’ Subjectively speaking, Costa little French. Calypso and chaeology? Costa Rica is richer study in biology, archaeology, ”, they invariably replied.“Costa Ricans are the warmest, most Reggae music can be heard in archaeologically than any other geology or social anthropology. Rica . . . is that north or south of open-hearted people I have ever every street. Mexico City?” encountered. While I was in the ‘Cost Rica is probably one of the country, I lived with two Costa most misunderstood countries in Rican families whom I came to the world. Bordered by love as much as my own family. Nicaragua on the north and Those of you who think that Panama on the south-east, it is Costa Rica is somewhere in the second smallest Central Mexico are probably envisioning American country. The entire a diet of hot, spicy food. Not so. country measure only 50,700 The basic Costa Rican diet square kilometers, and a 1968 consists of black beans, rice and census estimated a population of tortillas, served three times a 1,623,000. Unlike the so-called day in the country, although city “Banana Republics” one dwellers supplement this with associates with Central America, eggs, meat and fresh vegetables. Costa Rica is a stable Surprisingly enough, in the seven democracy. It is not troubled by months I was there. I never tired civil war and has no armed of black beans and rice (locally forces. During the recent trouble known as “gallo pinto” ). in Nicaragua. Venezuela and Cultural Diversity Panama sent troops to guard Costa Rica is a culturally Costa Rica’s northern border. A fascinating country. It is divided president and House of in half by a volcanic chain, and Representatives, each elected to the cultures on either side of the four-year terms, make up the mountains are totally different. government. Rodrigo Carazo, the The Pacific side, characterized current president, was elected in by a hot, dry climate most of the January 1978, and has been year is inhabited largely by referred to by the American Spanish or Spanish American press as the “Jimmy Carter of descendants who speak Spanish Costa Rica.” and are culturally like other Big Mac’s and Quarter Pounders Latin Americans. — Photo: Susy Dawson Interesting Ecology Central American country The Costa Rican economy is The Atlantic side, however, is The program begins at the end of Ecologically, Costa Rica is (excluding Mexico). The cultures based largely on agriculture. an entirely different world. As January and ends at the begin more diverse than most countries represented are often earlier Coffee and bananas are the two you cross the mountains, the dry ning of June. Students spend an you will find, and it is the than the famous Maya Indians of main crops. In fact, the Dole or terrain gradually is replaced by a average of three months in the scientist’s dream. Instead of one Mexico and may represent the Chiquita banana you eat has hot, steamy, tropical rain forest field, usually on their own, eco-zone, Costa Rica is beginnings of that great nation probably come from Costa Rica. environment. The people who researching subjects of interest characterized by tiny “micro state. The same goes for those of you dominate the central portion of to them. They then write a paper zones.” The landscape in Costa How about social research? who still eat at McDonald’s. Most this side are descendants of explaining what they did, their Rica ranges from hot (115 Costa Rica is an excellent place of the beef for Big Macs and Jamaicans who were taken to results, and suggestions for Quarter-Pounders comes from degrees F) tropical rain forest, to to study economics, Latin Costa Rica as slaves to work on future research. There are no Costa Rican cattle, a specially hot, dry desert, to cold volcanic government, acculturation, the railroad in the 1800’s. classes except for three weeks of bred mixture of Brahman and peaks reaching 3,820 meters, to urban-rural investigations, Although these people have in orientation and Spanish at the Jersey cattle which is hardy, warm breezy beaches. More than linguistics, and a hundred more beginning of the term. half the country is covered by topics. Getting excited? Information forests, allowing for rich animal If your interests lean more and plant life. While the botonist toward mind expansion, you will can be obtained this term from Professor Sumner Richman in will be fascinated by the find very enjoyable substances thousands of different species of going for $5 an ounce, or pick Youngchild or Professor Hugo plants, the marine biologist will your own. Datura and those Martines next term. Or ask any be entranced by the miles of coral elusive “magic mushrooms” of the students who have been on reefs which grow only 40 meters grow almost everywhere. the program. We’re the ones with the glassy smiles, the Costa from shore. The biologist will not Interested? be able to decide whether to study Rican posters and the tendency to So—how do you get to study in lapse into unintelligible babbling the strange gold frogs found only the “Land of Eternal Spring” ? in a small forest area, or the when asked, “How was Costa Easy .. . The Associated Colleges Rica?” Pura vida, man pura almost frightening red and of the Midwest (ACM) has a blue frogs with yellow feet that vida. program in Costa Rica which you you see hopping around the can practically tailor to fit your northern border. needs. If you go in the fall, you Your interests don’t include can study any topic which has to — Photo. Alonso Benavides HuncRn 309 W. College Ave. Appleton Mosey on down to Boot Hill and . . . check us out FRH DBLIVURY •HATS «BELTS «BOOTS «WALLETS «BUCKLES 'SHOES With This Ad —Drive-Up Window now available ^ L The ii-st student t0 complete this cryptoquote — Also, Hungri’s will now be open until after bar closing Cactus rock: An outdoor classroom London Center by Debbie Pope Lawrence maintains the Jazz ensemble concert When is a classroom a rock? Cactus Rock property—a task Appointments The Lawrence Jazz Ensemble, For that matter, when is a rock a which has become increasingly participate in studio recording under the direction of Instructor work, and a large number have classroom? (I’ll pause a moment more difficult in the past few con’t from page 1 in Music Fred Sturm, will present done commercials with Irish- and let you think . . .) Got it? If years. Youths in the area of repeated, and History 29L its fall concert Sunday, Nov. 19. Saxe Productions in Neenah. The you guessed when it’s the Cactus Cactus Rock see it as the perfect (History of England: 1750-1978) The concert will begin at 8 p.m . in entire jazz band recorded a Rock Scientific Area, you’re place to hold drinking parties. will be added. the Chapel. absolutely right! Biologically, Cactus Rock is a commercial for Richmond Dean of Student Academic Life The program will include a Square Restaurant, written by For those of you who guessed delicate area and, according to Charles Lauter emphasized the premier performance of “ Echoes Sturm, last May, and plans to do incorrectly, allow me to explain. Maravolo, many unique species dual purpose of the London of an Empire” by Bruce Wer- more of that type of recording are Cactus Rock is a 20-acre out of plants no longer exist on the Center. ‘‘The first (purpose) is to muth, a Lawrence junior from in the works. Members of the jazz cropping of granite which con heavily trod front part of the continue the academic process Elm Grove, Wis., and two new ensemble also will do backup tains an unusual variety of plant rock. “We tried to teach the local using the English setting when fusion compositions from North work for professional soloists or life and is rather interesting from kids to appreciate the area, but appropriate.” Lauter mentioned Texas State University entitled groups performing at Lawrence. a geological standpoint as well. we’ve been fighting a losing that Math 10 will have some ‘‘F.M.,” by Lyle Mays, and Under Sturm, who was one of Located just southwest of New battle,” Maravolo said. computer applications in ‘‘Phonk a Trois,” by Chuck the originators of jazz studies at Ixwdon, Cactus Rock was given Each spring, Maravolo and LU England. Owen. Lawrence in the early 1970’s to Lawrence University in 1974 by students spend a weekend The second purpose, according Flugelhorn specialist Rick when he began a student- the Wisconsin Chapter of the at Cactus Rock cleaning to Dean Lauter, is to give Baugneit, a junior from Mishicot, designed course in jazz, the Nature Conservancy, a group up the cans, bottles, and other students ‘‘an opportunity for Wis., will be featured in Sturm’s Lawrence jazz program has that sees to the preservation of assorted trash from the site. This cultural enrichment from being new arrangement of ‘‘Willow expanded to include more natural resources for scientific past spring, students gathered in one of the greatest cities of the Weep for Me,” and the saxophone students than ever before. study. Cactus Rock is classified over a dozen barrels of garbage. world.” section will be featured in ‘‘Won’t This year a second jazz en as a scientific area by the Because of the problems in There is a ‘‘dynamic tension” You Come Home Bill Bailey?” semble, the Lawrence Jazz Lab Department of Natural volved in taking care of the between these two goals, ad arranged by Mike Heathman. Resources. Band, and a Vocal Jazz En property, Maravolo would like to mitted Lauter, but added that The jazz band also will perform Cactus Rock is used as an semble have been started. The see a “Friends of Cactus Rock” they can sometimes compliment outdoor classroom and in- works by Sammy Nestico, Rich new ensembles give more group get together. A group like each other. He cited the many Matteson, and Rob McConnell. dependent-study site by mem students an opportunity to par this could possibly help the means of ‘‘Cross-fertilization” Many of the students featured bers of the natural science ticipate and perform, and also community understand how available in seeing art, ar in the Sunday night concert have departments here at Lawrence. will be used for training of Cactus Rock is a part of their chitecture and culture first hand. been heard recently on radio. It is especially well-suited for student conductors and polishing natural heritage and could also Students are encouraged to Students of the jazz classes at those studying botany since it has of student compositions. help take care of the area. study in London for two terms. Lawrence are encouraged to cactus (hence the name), Maravolo believes that the Between terms, there is a three flameflowers, mosses, lichens, Cactus Rock property is an week break for traveling. Many oak and hickory trees and important teaching tool for the “London Lawrentians” travel to literally hundreds of other neat science department. Although the continent during this time. living things with huge long the property doesn’t bring any There is also a ten day midterm scientific unpronounceable revenue into the University, it break when shorter trips can be names. A botanist’s paradise! doesn’t really cost anything arranged. Mr. Nichloas C. Maravolo, either because it has been taken An informational brochure will assistant professor of biology, off the tax rolls and is now taken be available for interested takes his Intro. Botany students care of by students. It provides a students after Thanksgiving. Cleo to Cactus Rock each year to study s B a r valuable place for study ex There will also be two meetings the plant life there. He believes it perience not only for students of explaining the London program. is important that students have botany, but also for those of They will be held on Tuesday, the opportunity to observe the biology, geology, and chemistry. November 28th and Thursday, things they’re studying in a Some individual students in the November 30th, at 4:30 p.m. The Celebrate Thanksgiving Day! natural setting. Classes on plant past have visited Cactus Rock location and further details will ecology, including areas of plant aside from their classes on biking be announced. research, identification, excursions and the like. STOP IN AND SAMPLE distribution and diversity are Maravolo would like to see the OUR GREAT DRINKS. also held at the ‘‘outdoor student body as a whole take classroom”. more interest in the area in this at Drinking Parties way. C l e o 's C l e o ’s B a r — The unique bar in Appleton RETSON’S Submarine Sandwiches s h a c k BENEATH THE STREET AT 109 W. COLLEG E AVE. 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E. of 41 Mon., Wed., Fri. ’til 9-Sat. 8-5 Get your Subs at Trever, Sunday nights at 9:30 Page 6 The LAW RENTIAN 17 November 1978 “Men were men” at first Appleton Thanksgiving by Mark Thurner stantly in conflict with them The precipitated by the push of the In the cool afternoon wind, a Winnebagos brought with them a eastern tribes to the west as a Chicago kicks Green Bay’s fanny stone tool cuts through the stalk well-developed and rich tradition result of colonial expansion. Approximately 9,543 (give or routine high pitched vocals which of a maize plant and an ear is of myths and legends. Their On the shores of Le Baye, or take two or three thousand) long for the low tempered harvested. Earlier, beans that religious belief system in general Green Bay, flourished a large teenie hoppers and 400 young growling of the late Terry Kath. were sown at the base of the was more complex than that of Winnebago stronghold at the spot adults packed Brown County Peter Cetera’s sharp soprano stalks were gathered, along with their neighbors. Their ceramic known as Red Banks. Tribal Arena Tuesday night for voice lifted the audience above the late ripening squash crop. tradition was not of a superior villages were established near Chicago’s most important stop on the melodic accompaniment to The year is a bountiful one. In the quality, but they have left behind rivers such as the Fox and the their three day, two night “I ’ve been searchin’ so long” and forest a wild turkey is shot by a vast remains attesting to their Rock, and on the shores of Paun worldwind tour—Green Bay, “Just you ’n m p,” while Robert colonialist; and also in the forest productive capacity and num Lake, or Lake Winnebago. At Wisconsin. Lamm elicted the most frenzied a beaver is fatally pierced by a bers. nearby Doty Island (now in the The concert typified the ex response of the evening by micro-blade attached to a shaft, In terms of social organization, city of Neenah) a large Win cellence displayed on studio pounding out “Saturday in the thrust from the bowstring of a clans were very important. Clans nebago encampment was albums with their invigorating, park” on the ivories. Chicago’s Woodland Man. such as the Thunderbird, Beaver, established where the Fox River tight sound blasting the listener. new musical aquisition, Donnie A feast has been called. The Deer, Water Spirit and others flows out of Lake Winnebago, Though the fans were annoyed Dacus, was technically proficient missionary has invited those were widespread. Each clan beginning its northward flow with Chicago’s late arrival, soda in delivering Kath’s former Native Americans who have probably held a unique status through the encampment now pop wine and continuous games guitar riffs, but obviously lacked cooperated with the European position in the larger society. known as Appleton and beyond to of “killer frisbee” pacified the the “quiet class” of the other settlers. Erom their camp they empty finally in Green Bay. crowd. One Lawrentian, who group members. With hair flying bring aplenty—indeed what they The villages subsisted by obviously lacked a fundamental and fingers flaming, Dacus, the bring is the horticultural and means of hunting and gathering knowledge of aerodynamics, blond Ted Nugent, left the thir hunting knowledge that has and the planting of such crops as decapitated a nearby attendant teen year olds screaming for allowed the foreigners to survive maize, beans and squash. Tools with a professional size pie pan. autographs and stridex pads. the harsh winters in the New were made of stone: dolomite This event dramatically Dacus’ showboating left one with World, for the moment, men worked well for grinding stones, foreshadowed the end of the the impression that Chicago are men, food is food, and chert and flint provided for concert when even I lost my head found their new member and life is life. the making of projectile points, over Chicago’s fantastic ren (nicknamed “ Hot Licks” ) under Giving thanks are the colonists, knives and other tools. Harpoons dition of “25 or 6 to 4.” the heading “ Hotdog” in the for they now know they shall and fishhooks were formed from Chicago tested the audience’s musicians’s referral service. persist through the winter bones, though it appears not all tolerance for new material from Despite Donnie Dacus’ months and establish stronger tribes in the region made this the current album “ Hot Streets.” tasteless and incongruous antics, footholds in the New World in the technological advance. Some Perhaps this was the reason for Chicago belted out a superb coming spring. were more adept fishermen than the crowd’s polite, but uninspired performance. The players; in It is with the idea that others. Tribes living on the Door applause during the first half of spired actions on stage were best Thanksgiving is not only a County Peninsula were, as one the show. The tempo of the four demonstrated in trombonist feastday but a day of cross- might expect, quite dependent on new songs varied from languid James Pankow’s Gypsy Rose Lee cultural communion, that a the abundant fish resources. love songs to fanny-kicking rock imitation, leaving him clothed sketch of regional aboriginal life Many camps were strung along n roll. The major flaw in the new only from the waist down and in more recent times, seems the Green Bay and Lake music is its inability to go adorned by a towel. appropriate. Michigan shores, and on islands anywhere, which characterizes Had the number of encores In this region of Ouisconsin, offshore as well. (Much of the “ Hot Streets” in general. “ Aliveexceeded three, Pankow may from the fresh water sea of Le information we have about Again,” the AM release, stands have completely bared his Baye to the Paun Lake region and settlements in this area can be out as the most redeemable song talents. “I’m a man’’ ap along the banks of the tributary credited to the archeological on the album. Though its in propriately closed out the ex river systems, lived, in the time work of Lawrence’s anthropology troduction reeks of disco, the travaganza with a historical just preceding French contact, department. A potsherd sam greater portion of the song is a glimpse of an early Chicago, born the people of the Paun Nation. pling is now on display in smooth blend of syncopated brass and a dynamic, jazz-ignited, hard The Menomoni, the Fox, the Stephenson Hall.) and potent guitar which high rock band. Potowatamis, and the Sauk The first white man to make falutin critics term “rock-jazz The concert reaffirmed that Nations were also represented in contact with the native peoples of fusion.” Chicago can still provide a thrill the region. These peoples spoke the area was Jean Nicolet, a Greatest Obstacle at will. Now, if I could just get the Algonquian languages. The French explorer who came The greatest obstacle that used to Donnie Dacus. Pauns, or Winnebagos, were of a ashore on the banks of Green Bay Chicago must overcome is the —BOB WHITELY diffe re nt cultural-lingual in 1634. The native Americans heritage, however. Their —Photo: Anne Hteselbach must have been somewhat language was Siouian and thus mystified by Nicolet’s imposing related to tribes in Iowa and figure. He made his debut among places further to the west. the native peoples garbed “in a Since a discussion of all the robe of China damask profusely aboriginal cultures of the area Intertribal warfare was not decorated with flowers and birds This Coupon is good for would be much too lengthy, I will uncommon, indeed the Win of various colors and carrying limit most of my discussion to the nebagos were considered to be two pistols. These he fired into Winnebago. All too often, white fierce warriors. Cannabalism the air, causing the Indians to people who are ignorant about seems to have occurred in the believe that he carried thunder in 85« OFF Native American cultures course of intertribal warfare, his hands. The terror-stricken mistakenly think all “Indians” especially when the Winnebagos women and children fled the are basically alike and members were involved. 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College Ave., Appleton 17 November 1978 The LAW RENTIAN Page 7 Generally Personal Announcementsr w iw v d a __i n w . h uni pciiii? a i__ RW, JW, KR, Animal, BM, all M O LESK IE—Are the bass bit DO YOU KNOW anybody with other interested persons - don’t let ing today? Show us again what The second concert of the fingers like Kenneth Drake? I do. Tootish One deny it - that Thing they do when they’re hungry! HAVE YOU HEARD? There is Chamber Music Series will WHERE ARE LAWRENCE S was in his room and would have going to be an all campus party ON MONDAY~AND TUES- feature an evening of grievers? Where is Lawrence’s Grie been DONE if ‘Wee hadn’t climb at Plantz tonight. For fifty cents, DAY, November 20 and 21, stu Beethoven's music performed by vance committee? Or at least, where ed in on the fun! There wouldn’t you can consume all the beer your dents may add their names to any pianist Kenneth Drake. Drake is Lawrence’s Committee to In even have been a vote - the FEST body can handle. So, come by for undersubscribed section. For stu will perform the all-Beethoven vestigate A Grievance Committee? would have been ruined by this a “study break,” from 9 until 1. dents in over-subscribed sections concert Friday, Nov. 17, at 8 pre-pigging! (See DoMash for HOW ABOUT INSTE AD of for (you can dance, too!). and students required to take a p.m., in Harper Hall. details...} getting what we did when we were Seminar who are not registered. Drake will perform on his own drunk, forgetting that we were COME ONE! COME ALLTCome THE SECTION under the lead Broadwood piano, which dates drunk and remember what we did? PSST . , . Surprize Party for to Sage's Dinner at Downer! Medi back to 1816, and which was ership of Bryan Torcivia and Rick Ludwig at Entertainment a La eval theme - long tables, roast Young (3rd floor Plantz), would restored in 1976 by Alastair SKINNY DOC., R .n 7 Wicked Witch, Puff and Rookie Bumper; Carte, Thursday, Nov. 30 in River- beef sliced in the dining room, like to publicize the recent ac Laurence of Yorkshire, England. chunks of cheese, entertainment Rondez-vous the 22nd. Get that view Lounge, 11:30-1:30. Tunes complishment of Mr. Scott A. Rank. The piano has a six-octave turkey in the oven! The Corn Queen played by your favorite performers and candles. Fun and food rolled He has set a new Lawrence record compass, light jack-type dam is hungry. and free birthdav cake!!! . . . Don’t into one. Bring your mug for cider of ten consecutive weekends spent pers, and una corda and split tell L.V.B.Ü? ______and dress in Medieval, garb. Tues- at home. The section would like to damper pedal and an all-wood THANKS FOR THE shower cap. day 21 November ’78 We didn’t like living under THE $5.00 REW A RD For the safe add that Scott’s future looks bright frame. return of the jukebox records KNAVES OF LAWRENCE- for the continuation of his streak, E L E P HANT. ______Friday evening’s program taken from the Delt house sometime UNITE!!! Who needs Ye Olde Sil because of his prospering relation includes Beethoven’s Sonata in A- NEED HOME For kitten for during the week of Oct. 29. No verware when one has Ye Oldere ship back home (HTH) Flat Major. Opus 110, Sonata in C Xmas. Will supply food. 731-9059. questions asked. Call ext. 644. Fingers? Verily I say. forget Ye Signed. Olde Styrofoame Cups and bring The Section Majo?, Opus 53, Sonata in C HAPPY BIRTHDAY Sean. Love, FOR S A L E —Size 6 1/* brown Ye Olde Mug, for it’s off to Ye Minor. 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COLM A N CA FETERI AC RE W: hours are noon to 6 p.m., Monday SAY HEY Brian, we .. .M ISSED A NAVY BLUE DOWN JACKET. Don’t forget about our “avenue” through Saturday. . . . your letter . . . this week. How ROOSTER QUINLAN: Don’t for- By accident (hopefully), someone about for . . . NEXT W E E K ’S . . . get to eat all your vegetables. picked it up at the "Le Brawl” 9:30,BE THERE!______------Karen Ann party. A set of keys and a pair HEY ERIC, how do you catch GARYN., of red mittens were in the pockets. a squirrel? You legal beagles are all the same! If anybody knows the whereabouts ANYONE DRIVING West I ’m probably just one of your of my jacket please contact me after finals, please contact Danna many heiffers. —Bessie soon - I ’m freezing without it. Doyle at ext. 352. Trying to get —Mahnaz Ali Khan, ext. 343 FLOSS—Get off of your high as far as Nevada. Will share driv horse! — the enforcer THANKS PHI TAUS—Le Brawl ing and expenses. was Le Best!!! —Club 202 COMA BOY-try to stay sane "ART SHOULD never try to be this season. —a Fan HAPPY B-DAY, Boiler. Love, popular. The public should try to Bart, Curt and Scoop. make itself artistic.” H EY MARK, we’re rotating edi ______—Oscar Wilde tors for this week. Kent and Ellen DID YOU KNOW that it now are rotating clockwise while I ro takes 4 weeks for intercampus mail DE A RE ST K K .STTYou really tate counter-clockwise. Last to go from Trever to Plantz? Mail give a swell backrub, but you need week it was the reverse. your Christmas cards early. to brush up on your water fights! —Signed, your editor J IM W IL K IE ’S mother is a O.K. YOU GUYS in Kohler, the “connie". fun is over. Would you get the ~‘MAr70N7~ NELSON: Your cigarette machine back in the lobby? Mom wears army boots. Gained The elevator was a bit crowded. a little weight? - look behind you. This is a threat! Are you sorry yet? 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If you have follow the sport very much. It’s correctly guessed Jim Miller, you “One night I woke up after a certainly more fun to participate deserve more than just a cigar. workout,” Jim explained, “and I in it than it is to watch.” Jim Miller is probably the most had to take a shower because I Miller’s seventh place finish in was sweating so much.” under rated superstar athlete in last week’s race marked the first this school. He is competing in Miller is also very fond of beer time that he had been beaten all the Division III National NCAA and drinks large quanities of it season. The week before Jim every Saturday night down in the Cross-Country championship this copped first place honors in the weekend in Rock Island, Illinois. Viking Room, usually after a big Midwest Conference Cham He qualified last weekend by race. “ Personally, I can’t think of pionship meet by defeating the finishing seventh overall and a better time in the week to go tip second place finisher by 18 third individually in the regionals a few.” seconds. held at Central College in Pella, If Miller continues to improve, And the remarkable thing is, Iowa. Miller finished the five and betters his marathon time by Jim doesn’t snort any special mile course with a personal best a few minutes, he may stand a drugs and nor does he shave his of 25:13. chance of qualifying for the head before races. I have been Why has Miller been relatively Olympic Trials in 1980. running with Jim for these past unrecognized by jock-happy And Miller thinks he can do it, three years and as far as I can groupies, despite the fact that he provided he doesn’t get injured, determine, he only has one secret is the best long distance runner in and if beer prices do not rise too formula. Hard work. Jim runs his drastically within the next couple MILLER pounds as Gene eyes the meat. buns off more than any other of vears. A wild time in Mad-town During the third quarter, our by der Schwimmer and the to throw their walking aids over Lawreiftiai? traveling companions, Mr. Admiral, inspired by Jeff and the goalpost cross-bar and catch Hawley and Mr. Martin, joined John. them. A new cure for arthritis? No. Someone told us those us. The cold weather had ap decrepit humans were third-year parently impared their coor dination and social etiquette. Jeff Editors Note: These two roving- law students continuing a hallowed tradition: catching spent most of the second half Sports eve reporters spent last weekend one’s cane after tossing it over bouncing from rows 16 to 18 with on a special assignment in his cap pulled down below his Madison. They were to report on the crossbar means one will win his first case. It looked as if many nose. His associate got some a UW football game, after strange excitement from covering Lawrence all season. of them will not even make it to the court room. One near-spastic smearing a banana over the knee They filed this report: of the Admiral’s formerly im Inching along for hours in pre- couldn’t even throw his cane over the bar, much less catch it. maculate Levis.' game traffic in Jeff Hawley’s Budweiser Hysteria worn-out police cruiser, we had Coed Passing Repeatedly during the contest, worked up quite a thirst. Having Then another UW football rite Budweiser hysteria reigned. been advised to buy a thirst- began: passing coeds up to the Every time the brand’s theme quencher outside Camp Randall top of the stands. Despite the song was played, everyone in our Stadium, we looked long and hard brain-numbing cold and section tried to polka and sing the for a friendly A&W stand. No beverage, these reporters were chorus: “When you say Wis-con- luck. As a last resort, we settled able to count at least twenty-five sin, you’ve said it all.” on Bill’s Liquor. “We’d like young ladies being transported in Late in the game we looked up something to drink during the this very fashion during the af and saw the plane trailing a game,” we said, expecting the ternoon’s festivities. This figure streamer which said, “O Un-cola. With a knowing smile, also includes two life-size blow-up SUCKS” . The sign had been Bill handed us a bottle of 151 rum. plastic dolls which some fans financed by sections N and P. Being occupants of section O, we Leaving the store we joined the stream of already joined in retorting “ N sucks P ” . Further intellectual discussion intoxicated people heading for the stadium. In along these lines continued after exorably, the crowd surged forward, over hill and the game. Reflections on basketball over dale, through an old lady's garden, trampling Due to our end-zone seats, the her barking dog. ______frigid weather, and a strange by Mike Fogel been the most crucial for the lightheadedness, we found the The basketball Vikes are off to freshman in the crew. their best season in years. The This years’ Vikes must rely on especially enjoyed handling as second-half football action Leaving the store we joined the somewhat confusing. Eventually, high spirits exhibited in the in- the help of first year men, and stream of already intoxicated they were passed out of the titial weeks of the season are due stadium. however, we learned that Nor approvingly, Coach Kastner says people heading for the stadium. thwestern (Editor’s Note: the to some encouraging notes: they are learning fast. The fresh Inexorably, the crowd surged Meanwhile, toilet paper, Viking players turned out en programs, empty Coke cups and opponent was really Purdue.) man that foes will reckon with forward, over hill and over dale, masse the first day of practice, are Dave Knopp, Ray Smith, Jeff other debris showered the fans in had gone ahead 24 to 6. The through an old lady’s garden, the concentration and intensity at White, Carl Kramer and Stu the lower sections. Several times hapless Badgers seemed doomed trampling her barking dog. The to lose again. In the last 7 each practice has been Hopfensberger. Now that all you security guards confiscating mob moved on relentlessly. At minutes, the Badgers surged for exhausting, and the coaches are readers know who is on the team, illegal glass containers became the stadium we looked for Gate 16 18 points, culminating in a touch keen. No! The stars have not there is no excuse not to come out the objects of the crowd’s wrath. where our contact, “KK” , would down and two-point conversion in enlightened me to these facts. I and see your favorite player. As if all this were not have our tickets. Hearing tickets the last 25 seconds, which tied the am a 1978-79 player for the Viking The most exciting news of this distracting enough, the Badger were hard to get, we shrewdly score at 24. There was much team, and will be writing the year’s team is the style of play cheerleaders caused these two purchased ours weeks in ad rejoicing in Mad-town that night. Lawrentian reports on the that will be exhibited. Because normally dilligent reporters to vance, for only $8 a piece. Before Normally, one leaves after the games, marking the first player this team is the quickest I ’ve we could make contact, however, frequently loose all contact with game ends. But a Badger game is to write B-ball in years. played on and one of the shortest, a young coed sidled up to us, the football action. Their cheers far from normal. The band’s post The most obvious fact about we are planning to run, gun, and offering two tickets—free. Noting were no more inane than any at game show included still more this year’s team is its youth. press. We must fast break our her shifting eyes, and the big Lawrence, but the gymnastics, renditions of the Bud theme, a Those over-the-hill types larger opponents and keep them pimp standing next to her “der tumbling and dance used in their rock n roll medley, and a version (seniors) are hardly to be found. off balance with a series of zone Schwimmer” refused her presentation were a real eye- of the song “Bubbles” Neuman Dave Klaeser, a high jumping and man-to-man defenses. Our proposition—thinking it was a popper, to say the least. crooned so tenderly here at defense expert who is actually a game should prove to be an big-city trap. We somehow managed, Lawrence. five year man, and I, the captain exercise in both strategy and Squeezing through Entrances however, to sway our attention who will soon reach the 1000 point execution. Squeezed through the entrance mark, are the only old timers. Much enthusiasm this year can like toothpaste from a tube, we Late in the game we looked up and saw the plane Most of the troop is made up of be attributed to the schedule of entered Section O. We stepped mere babes—freshman and games. The coaches say it is the around two comatose fans trailing a streamer which said, "O sucks". The sign sophomores—with the exception toughest ever. The first game of staring blankly at the little plane had been financed by sections N and P. Being occu of Rob Cohen, Paul Heiring, and the season is an indication of circling overhead. The plane Randy Behm. Of the infants, difficulty, for we open with In dragged a sign advertising pants of section O, we joined in retorting ”N sucks Brian Fenhaus and Jim diana State and Larry Bird on the “ Frederick’s of Hollywood P." Piotroski, last year’s rookies of 25th of November in Terre Evening Attire”. Taking the the year, begin the season with Haute, Indiana. After collecting seats of two fans who suddenly After the football festivities away from all of this onto the much experience coming off the ourselves, we begin playing a became sick and stumbled out, concluded, this dynamic duo trod playing field. Wisconsin was bench, and will be very important very competitive conference we soon saw we were surrounded the streets of Madison, sampling leading, surprisingly enough, by factors in this year success. schedule. The big bonus this year by 50 giddy freshmen girls—a the night life. Sunday morning a score of 6-3 at halftime. And The man to keep all of your is our trip to Hawaii during real treat for only $8. brought our departure. On the much to our chagrin, tailback Ira eyes on (not too much) is Christmas break. Suddenly Karl dropped from way back, Jeff sacrificed the Matthews, whom we thought we sophomore free spirit Jeff Weiser Finally, to all those skeptical of his seat, clutched his throat and economic well-being of his family had applauded several times, who is often not believed to be a Viking success, one last note. We did “the Bluto” . Perceiving his by inviting us to his parent’s hadn’t even suited up for game. basketball player, but loves to finished with an 11-11 record last need immediately, I purchased (Who the hell was No. 28, home in Beaver Dam for rebound. To round off the season; six of those games were two small cokes and gave them to breakfast. After speaking briefly anyway?) sophomores, I cannot forget lost by a total or 21 points—luck him, diluted with a pint of rum. with his son, Mr. Hawley At halftime, “the Admiral” everybody’s all ’round favorite simply did not go our way. Given Mouthwash never tasted so good. enquired loudly, “Is he sober went to the 40,000-stall little Chuck Wood and our favorite that we are as talented as last yet?” We assured him that Jeff The activities had already begun. general’s room and nearly dorm counselor Dave Wille. As year and that our luck must A swarm of drunken, cane- was, downed a final quart of relived “ Reefer Madness” . The the first years of life are often change, this years’ basketball orange juice, and left the “Home carrying men and women air was thick with the fumes of said to be the most important, the Vikes will be a winner! teetered across the field and tried Hawley’s evil weed. of 14,000 Busy Beavers”, for first five weeks of practice have Appleton.