COURIER Blue Skies Smile for Picnickers
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The Courier Volume 2 Issue 2 Article 1 10-3-1968 The Courier, Volume 2, Issue 2, October 3, 1968 The Courier, College of DuPage Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.cod.edu/courier This Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the College Publications at DigitalCommons@COD. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Courier by an authorized editor of DigitalCommons@COD. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Mi 5 I ; 3 S § fl fwL ....I. * \ M If] - V* Li - The biggest event in the history of the College of DuPage took place Friday, Sept. 27, when the first All-Campus Mixer of the year was held at the Barn In Naperville. More than 1400 students attended. Fashions varied from the culotte dress at left to the Barn Mixer turtle-neck medallion combination above to the good ol’ blouse and slacks at the right, —photos by Bruce Lamb a Blue Skies Smile COURIER For Picnickers VOL. 2, NO. 2 OCTOBER 3, 1968 Ah, nature! As a rare sight a controversial swim In the deep for College of DuPage picnickers blue ( or was It brown ) lake. appeared In the sky, the color blue, Gabe Hellig threw two touchdown hundreds of hungry C of D stu¬ passes, Terry Kopltke single- dents and faculty members Sun¬ handedly beat the sudents in the Homecoming Queen To Be Elected day filed into McDoweU’s Grove softball game, and Ernie LeDuc, and devoured steak after steak. fired a five hitter to establish The College of DuPage elects Its Five finalists will be selected Avenue one half block east of Rte. himself as a marked man. first homecoming queen this by the homecoming committee to 53 cloverleaf In Arlington Heights. It was a beautiful day, to say the Nothing was lost, save a few ap¬ month. run for this coveted honor. Voting least. The sun shone, the river petites. All was gay. .all was for the queen will be Oct. 22 In Appropriate attire for the dance flowed serenely In Its supreme mud- merry. .all went weU. .until Prospective candidates must be conjunction with sill campus elec¬ is coats and ties for men and cock- lness and student government pre¬ disaster struck, a bitter return full-time students, carrying 12 tions. tall dresses for women. Dinner will sident Larry "Tiger” Lemkautook match between the students and credit hours or more, and single. be served between 8:30 and 9 p.m. the faculty. Girls Interested should pick up The homecoming game against and dancing will be from 9:30 to petitions anytime after Oct. 7 at Wright will be held at 7:30 p.m. 2 a.m . with the crowning of the After the faculty scored an un¬ Glen Briar Student Center. Oct. 25 In West Chicago. queen at midnight. Election for 15 earned run In the first (this came about when Terry Kopltke, play¬ All petitions should be turned in The dinner dance, Autumn by Tickets will be $10 per couple ing third, threw his hands up In by Oct. 14 to the student center. Moonlight, will be held at the Ar¬ and may be picked up at the Glen Senate Seats to front of his face and the baU Male students may sign only one lington Carousel the following Bralr Student Center between Oct. lodged In his fingers. So sur¬ petition. evening, Saturday, Oct. 26. The 9 and 21. No tickets will be sold Be Held Oct. 22 prised was Kopltke that he threw Arlington Carousel Is at Euclid after Oct. 21. towards first base. Unfortunately, An All-Campus election for the the ball was about 50 feet too 15 vacant senate seats will beheld high and a run scored from se¬ on Oct. 22. Petitions for possible cond on the play). Wallace Crowds Highly Vocal candidates and the election code will be available Monday, October Dave Bishop led off by popping By Ken Cross Monday gave me an Insight in the rlcade was a group of about 30 7, at the Office of Student Acti¬ weakly to LeDuc on the mound. type of people who oppose and sup¬ "bigot haters’’ who were chanting vities at the Student Center. All President Lemkau lined to short¬ George C. Wallace’s presence port this controversial figure. such phrases as "Wallace Is a petitions must be submitted to the stop Dick Miller. After Bob Le- always draws charges and counter¬ pig’’ and “If Wallace can’t do It, Office of Student Activities by gasslgue singled to center, clean¬ charges from reporters, crowds, On one side of the police bar¬ Hitler can”. 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 11. up hitter Scott Betts strode to and other politicians. It seems dif¬ ricade were the very enthusiastic the plate to face LeDuc. ficult In many cases to distinguish supporters, cheering, chanting, These charges were met with No campaigning will be allowed between the true and false. and definitely In the majority. counter-charges. The most out¬ before Monday, Oct. 14, at 7:00. Big Ern blazed two fastballs by spoken of the Wallace supporters The campaigning will run- until the Courier editor and was ahead But seeing Wallace In Chicago On the other side of the bar- seemed to be the women who never Monday, Oct. 21. All candidates quickly with a two strike count. failed to answer an accusation no must be full time students with Betts fouled a couple off before matter how naive It was. a 2.00 grade point average or bet¬ Papa Bear whirled and fired ahigh ter. For interested candidates, hard one that narrowly missed Traffic Jam Eases; The "bigot haters” proved to be the Senate meets every Thursday the most "Intellectual”. Several at 11:30 a.m. Continued on page 4, CoL 3 of their reasons for not wanting Wallace for president were that the Students Adjust: Paris candidate didn’t love Negroes or Intellectuals and wanted to give too much power to the police. By T. Dennis O’Sullivan This seems to Indicate that there In reply the Wallace people hurl- "Things are smoothing out. Stu¬ Is no relief In sight for the pro¬ back such accusations as "anar¬ dents are adjusting to the traffic blems which students encounter chists” and "rebels.” problems—developing patterns,’’ dally in traveling to and from said John Paris, dean of students, class. While this was going on the at the beginning of the second week police had to pull one man out of the of school. Paris called attention to two pos¬ sibilities which would help the WaUace supporters. He had gone in 15LUVJ swinging because of a caustic re¬ Although traffic Is still congest¬ problem. A survey taken by Paris mark thrown out by a Wallace sup¬ ed, it Is caused by the total num¬ showed that for every 10 parking porter. After the police had grab¬ * ber of cars and not because of spaces, only eight cwrs were being f.yA'X * 1 -4^5 ' bed the young man, the Wallace the way they move. After se¬ parked. This was caused by cars supporter took a vengance swing veral days of attending classes, overlapping spaces. The second but was elbowed out of the way by students now know where they must possibility would be for more stu¬ police. go and are not driving around look¬ dents to ride together. Several ing for the correct facility. students have realized the bene¬ fits In this and have begun riding This was really minor but it helped to start the chanting again. James Hill, Glen Ellyn police with friends. chief, said there will be congestion And the chanting was really the as long as the present number of A survey earlier this week show¬ most Interesting part because the cars are using the same parking ed that fewer cQmmuters and area people who 10 minutes earlier had lots. School officials said that residents are using Roosevelt Rd. made the most vehement denuncia¬ because of the delay in the build¬ and Rte. 53 In the vicinity of the tion of the candidate’s lack of love ing of the Interim campus, about campus during heavy classroom and his hunger for power now had Art Zamsky, swimming coach, hustles down to first base as a the same number of students would hours. Many of them have found nothing bettertoofferthan'Wehate throw from the third baseman sails over the head of student first- be using the same classrooms un¬ alternate routes around this area Wallace’’ and “Wallace Is a pig.” baseman. The action took place In the Student-Faculty softball til next summer. of heavy congestion. game held at the All-School Picnic Sunday, Sept. 29. THE COURIER, Oct. 3, 1968, Page 2. It's Like Taxes C of D Student Government: An Faculty Art On Exhibit Two College of DuPage students sat quietly at the table In the Explanation Student Center staring at their books open In front of them. One At Student Center munched hungrily on a hamburger while his eyes glanced fleetlngly over a math problem. The other let out a loud groan as each page (Editor’s Note: The author, a stu¬ By Ray Montgomery Let us begin with the works of was finished. The hamburger disappeared and, after a moment dent justice, was asked to explain for Incoming students how our John Lemon whose quiet manner the student flipped his book shut and stretched. At present, there is a very fine student government Is organized.) In person Is very misleading. His art exhibit at our Student Center.