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r books, e are sical DAILY CAMPUS e were The student newspaper of Southern Methodist University * Dallas, Texas Josey Lane Volume 66 Tuesday, March 17, 1981 No. 91 ,Richardson TUMES* Expenses grab at the green ASKS ELTY On campus Off campus EMS*. By STEPHANIE SMITH By STEPHANIE SMITH Contributing Writer Contributing Writer After considering tuition, fees, room and board, books, off- Expenses are rising for off-campus students, say John and campus food, travel to and from SMU, organization dues, Joan Average, as inflation pushes rent, food and utilities to an aks phone bills and "entertainment expenses," it's a wonder that almost unaffordable level in Dallas. Joe and Josephine Average only spend $4,300 each a semester While some commuters live at home and don't have to at SMU. worry about the rising rents near campus, others are paying as After registration and the $3,344.25 check for tuition, fees, much as $600 a month to share a studio apartment five to room and board, Rotunda and athletic sticker, the Averages seven miles from campus. spend an additional $1,000 on their "expenses." Sophomore Roy Steinhagen lived in an apartment last IES The Averages are both members of Greek organizations. semester, but when he got the opportunity to live in the frater- Joe's dues are $250 a semster; Josephine pays $275 a semester. nity house, he took it. But dues, say the Averages, are only part of the cost of being "Apartment life is just a pain," he said.."There's a lot of stuff by § Greek at SMU. that your parents do at home that you don't think about." "My RA has about $200 worth of party pies on the wall," Junior Leigh Elbert said that the little things are the most says sophomore J Mlinar. troublesome as far as her expenses go. udents In addition to party pies, which cost $1.85 apiece, the Greek "It's mostly just dishes, posters, plants, furnishings and ap- shows his support by purchasing T-shirts at $10, sweatsuits at pliances." she said. "You don't think about having to buy a $30 and the ever-popular navy-blue jackets at $20, complete vacuum cleaner when you're living at home." muIwan gre nw with Greek letters, crests and emblems. "It's really up to how much you decorate," she said. "If your Joe and Josephine also have to pay for "entertainment ex- apartment is furnished, you already have most of the stuff. It's St. Patrick he ain't. But you can bet your last pot of gold that penses:" drinks at Greek mixes, dinner before parties, happy the household things you don't have." tonight Tom "Mo" Morris will be drinking green beer and danc- hours with friends and the occasional $4.50 for an off-campus Another common expense for crnmmiters is the food costs ing Irish jigs to celebrate a fairy festive time. Or he may be movie. and the time that it takes to prepare "real meals." eating green jello-Greenville Ave. Country Club has a poolful. "I spent $900 last semester," says Mlinar. "I'm trying to cut "I spend whatever it takes for good food," said Senior Nasser it down to $25 a weekend this semester, but it's almost impossi- Sabetpour. "I shop every day; I like fresh stuff." ble. And that $25 doesn't include essential things like laundry Sophomore Brad Powers and sophomore Dierdre Clifton ys Only and party pies." disagree that food is a large expense. Murder trial date set Non-Greek students have their share of entertainment ex- "I can just take a TV dinner of eat out," said Powers, "and Former SMU employee Arthur physical plant worker Joe Vance on Jan. penses, too. Sophomore Roy Steinhagen says that he spends even eating out costs no more than a meal ticket at the Douglas will face trial in Dallas County 16. DPS officials found $1,000 cash in less a semester now that he's in a greek organization, but that cafeteria." District Court March 23. He is accused the suspect's car, and Jones said that some of it comes out in dues. Another major expense for the apartment dweller is the utili- of the murder of a retired physical plant theft was the supposed motive for the "I pay less for parties because I'm in a fraternity, but I still ty bill. worker in January, Department of Public killing. t come, pay some for the mixers," he says. "I just think that I spend less "Our utilities ran us $75 a month for everything last Safety Captain Stayton Jones said Mon- Originally, the trial was scheduled for now that I'm Greek." semester," said Clifton. day. March 9, but Jones said that the trial Because he is non-Greek, junior Mark Wilson estimates that Depending on the weather during the month, the utilities Jones said that Douglas was indicted date was moved back'two weeks. The entertainment is his largest expense. can run from $35 to $100 a month. Jan. 27 and charged with first degree trial will be in the annex courtroom of See ON, page 3 See OFF, page 3 murder in the shooting death of retired the Dallas County Courthouse. 68-6555 Love story ting fee Buscaglia lecture at SMU to-5e aired-on PBS By PAUL DELGADILLO Buscaglia jumped down from the stage people back to themselves, remind them Contributing Writer and began hugging and kissing the people that life is theirs. Use it. Don't miss the He is a simple man from a poor family, he loves so much-other human beings. opportunity to love and live fully." but thousands of people are listening to His philosophy is simple. Buscaglia Buscaglia had much more to say, him. What he has to say is very simple, says, "I think it is important to show peo- however, about the society we live in and yet it is usually ignored in our society. ple that the essence of being human is to the effects it has on each person. He told Felice Leonardo Buscaglia is a special define your human dignity, your uni- the story of a young girl who committed education professor at the University of queness; to recognize that there is suicide because her boyfriend failed to Southern California and is known for his nobody else like you in all the world. The call her as he iad promised. Buscaglia ' books "Love" and "Personhood" along greatest tragedy is that nobody tells asked, What else could she have done? o ege with the class he teaches called Love. On anybody about their own personal She could have called him, called so- Feb. 19 Buscaglia came to McFarlin wonder. Everybody's just too busy plow- meone else, made a pizza, thrown a par-

photo by Paul Dbru h Auditorium and talked to a full house. ing ahead, ignoring everybody else. So ty, taken a cold shower, baked Toll ester Few left without a smile. After the talk, my greatest gift, if I have one, is to get See LOVE, page 3 r building Buscaglia after his February speech at McFariln. -m%0% 00 A.M. 6 STuition trauma of e Church Students moan and groan but are willing to pay the price

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Josh Smith, sophomore, Clark Miller, freshman, jour- Cheryl Wenneman, sophomore, Scott Letler, sophomore, Libby McCasland, junior, deaf the history/political science-"I'm sure it nalism-"lf it is needed then I guess it broadcast film-"l don't think my businesspolitical science-"Well be education-"My parents had to is justified, but I'm concerned as to is justified. We pay so much already, parents were too happy about it,but able to handle it, but we're not happy reorganize their priorities because whether or not I can handle it. I'm and I don't always see what is all they'llpay the increase because they about it. SMU apparently needs the they have to think about when my currently on a scholarship, and I'm needed for. I also don't know what believe that I'll get a quality educa- money, and although there are pro- brother starts college. When I first of concerned as to how my status will be benefits I'll get from the increase. tion from SMU. The students at bably some areas of waste in the started at SMU my family could af- affected, especially in light of Presi- Right now I don't see the justifica- SMU should be aware of the increase university, I'll stay here. They need ford to pay all four years. But with dent Reagan's budget cuts. I'm also tion." in tuition and make the most of their the money, I need to go to college, so their continual increases every year. curious as to the affect it will have opportunities here because of the fact what can I say?" I've had to seek out financial oice upon enrollment of freshmen next that it is so expensive." assistance. And this latest increase year." doesn't help at all." -- .d i ...... i ...... -i. . , - _:.:•:.:. •: -i 7_ 4'::::, i ::.

Daily Campus staff meeting Bu Today at 4 p.m. in Room 104 NEWS SUMMARY -F IV d-1 liYnri- L dA*l i- By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LIBERTY, lexas-Former 1exas TEP-L AVIV, Isracl-Israel reactea angri- of the student center House Speaker Price Daniel Jr. kicked his ly Monday to reports that the United Rotunda pictures to be taken WASHINGTON-With his cabinet pregnant wife in the stomach and expos- States plans to equip Saudi Arabia with sharply divided. President Reagan likely ed himself to young boys, his wife and ac-. 'flying ri;adar stations, which Israeli House coc will decide soon on whether to seek curbs cused killer testified' Monday. Vickie: military experts claim will allow the and passet on Japanese auto imports-a move some Daniel painted a vivid picture of physical 'Saudis to scan Israel's most secret In the n advisers believe could jeopardize his and mental abuse by her once politically defenses "like a closed-circuit TV camera the audiei economic recovery plan. A cabinet-level prominient husband during a stormy in our bedroom." unique task force headed by Transportation four-year marriage. ant aren't, an Secretary Drew Lewis has been grappling someihing with the import issue for weeks, causing You have delays in its report to the president on the Security blotter are, to 'tel plight of the auto industry. ficials with the Dallas Poison Control WASHINGTON-The State depart- By GILES HUDSON For Bus Center agreed. calling the substance an diant to a ment said today Soviet and Afghan Staff Writer extreme fire and explosion hazard. "We've authorities may have aided the 13-day hi- Vic Dunlop Six campus thefts totaling S3.000 were A bicycle estimated'at Sl50 was trust each jetliner by pro- jacking of a Pakistani reported to SMU Security during the past reported taken from he Daniels ill Other Comics viding weapons to the hijackers while the death of OPENING A PRIL 1 & two weeks, said Captain Stayton Jones of apartment complex March II, Jones- ground at Kabul air- plane was on the the SMU Department of Public Safety said, 'and a S35 watch was taken from port. Citing what he said were eye- A burglary on March 9 accounted for i Dedman Center March 13. Department witness accounts. nearly 52,700 dollars alone. Jones said so Two attempted burglaries occurred on C the three spokesman William Dyess said meone broke into the SMU tennis team's campus during spring break. In the first Dallas' New All Comedy Nite Club hijackers were armed with pistols on ar- 'supply room in Moody Coliseum and case four lights were taken from light rival in Kabul but left with machine stole 40 pairs of shoes. 12 uniforms and poles at Ownby Stadium. but Jones said Featuring Top Comics from T. V. guns. several tennis balls. Total losses were his officers found the bulbs in the grass "Iprob residents of an Showtimes: Fri. & Sat.-8:30 & 11:00 ATLANTA-Male estimated at S2.600. nearby. An attempted burglary at 3130 semester," project said Monday Atlanta housing On the same day. security officers were Daniel was thwarted March 12 when a It's diffi they have formed a 24-hour patrol group Adm. $5 called again to Moody Coliseum to in-: patrolling security officer saw a man ment expe with baseball bats in an effort to armed vestigate the theft of four hubcaps from a climbing in a window. Reports show that at happy I Sun., Tues., Wed. & Thurs-8:30 children from the killers of' protect their car in the parking lot. Reports indicated the subject was spooked and fled the one, the dr The multiracial Adm. $4 20 black youngsters. that the hubcaps were valued at S100. scene. three-hour consisting at the start of about squad, Also on March 9. officials in the One man was arrested March 9 for Sophom Tues.-Audition Night-Adm. Free will patrol two score 16-to-21-year-olds. chemistry department reported the theft driving while intoxicated. A book store spend the Student Discounts for Groups of 20 or more armed with wooden and metal in pairs, of five gallons of ethyl ether from the sol- window was broken March 14. and Jones now that Back at a coam- For Reservations, ,^ _ bats and walkie-talkies. vent storage room. Jones said that the said that several juveniles seen near the where it g mand post, the adults at the Techwood- 8202 ParK Lane chemical is extremely volatile, and of- store were suspected in the incident. Dating C Info Call Clark Howell Homes. many in possession Average, i firearms. will be ready to roll at Greenville of licensed quick solu 361.7461 into action. Ip Updates.. .updates "Ibelie at 4 p m at the Human Resource Women's "Everyone TUESDAY Center to elect officers for next year This is an that mean important meeting STUDENT SENATE meets at 3 30 pm in the of Assembly Room of the studeent center Senators INTERNAL AFFAIRS will meet at 9 pm in the One GREAT "X" should come early so the FRotunda picture can Student Activity Center liketo do be taken SMU MUSIC THEATRE COMPANY will tpre- to eat out. FREE COMPUTER CENTERR SHORT COURSE sent the Gdbert and Sullivan operetta. 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much beauty is lost because you're afraid Leo Buscaglia" Wednesday, March 18, at to show people 7 p.m. on Channel 13.Speaking to an au- Buscaglia "You are notwhoyou are." Happy St. Patrick's Da at the mercy of forces dience in Sacramento, he urges his greater than yourself. You.are the listeners to move away from the current Israel reacted angri- greatest force. You are for me, and l am vogue of the"me generation" and into for you. You can choose love; choose rts that the United the loving reality of close family ties. "In We'll do St. Patrick's Day up right Continued from page I life " :: Saudi Arabia with order to find the happiness and fulfill- With one fixed price from 7 to midnight. ris which Israeli Buscagha's lecture,"A LoveClass with ment that we all seek in our lives, we im will allow the House cookies and gone out in the street Leo Bascaglia," will be shown tonight at need loving relationships, togetherness, raels most secret and passed them out. 7 p on Channel 13,and is a recreation away from 'I' and 'me' to 'us' and 'we,' d-circuit TV camera In the next breathl Buscaglia reminded of Dr Buscaglia'sn famous 'love" where the joy really lies." the audience that "every one of [usl is class-one of the professor's popular past "Teach Life!" airs Sunday, March 22, unique and holy. And for a reason. There course offerings at the Universit of at 7:45 a.m. and presents the lecturer in a aren't, any accidents; each of youshas S&ithern iCalifornia. In: class, par- KERA production taped live before the something to do and something to say. ticipants are encouraged to think about audience at McFarlin Auditorium on r You have a responsibility to be whoyouB their relationships-why they work and campus in February. Buscaglia's message are, to 'tell the children.' " . as Poison Control why they don't work-and what they centers on the teaching of children and For Buscaglia unity is the main ingre- can g the substance an do to make them succeed. young people about life and love. diant to a successful relationship. losion hazard. "Togetherness is made in heaven but On Sunday, March 22, at 9:05 a.m. "A "We've got to get together, to learn atedat. .S150 was to must be practiced on earth, and Love Class with Leo Buscaglia" will be trust each other. We're frightened to sometimes m'the Daniels Ill that is very difficult." This is re-broadcasted along with "Together death of each other," he observed. "So Buscaglia's March II. Jones. message in "Together with with Leo Buscaglia" at 10:05 a.m. ich was' taken from "I'm one of those people who doesn't Of course if these problems aren't rch 13. enough, there are emergency expenses to rglaries occurred on On like cafeteria food." says Wilson: "I pro- cripple the checking account of any stu- g break. In the first bably spend $320 a semester on food." dent. re taken from light Continued from page I Josephine has heard the sad tale of the Joe, for example, stumbled down the ium. but Jones said girl on whatever floor wbo has a steps of Mclntosh after an enjoyable date e bulbs in the grass "I probably spend $400 on fun in any boyfriend in New York Joe has heard and had to go to the health center for a Continue Spring Break with us if you choose, ed burglary at 3130 semester," he said. - about the guywho ated that girl who $15 X-ray and Josephine "just had to d March 12 when a with lots of beer for $5.00, how can you lose?!! It's difficult to keep track of entertain- went to Europe for a semester. .And have that dress"-a $65 emergency. officer saw a man ment expenses, say the Averages. Even both of the Averages have paid that Reports show that at happy hour where drinks are two for hideous first $40 installation charge ked and fled the one, the drinks can add up by the end of a phone bill at the beginning of the fall - Important Notice - Important Notice - Important Notice - three-hour mixer. . semester. rested March 9 for Sophomore Robyn Coward says, ,-'1 Saidatne Joe Average who wished to HONORS RECOGNITION - 1981 cated. A book store spend the most on entertainment,but- remain anonymous, "The phone com- March 14. and Jones now that I think about it, I don't know pany really has a racket going when it The Registrar's Office urges all undergraduate students enrolled for the current eniles seen near the where it goes." :: - can charge starving college students $40 Spring Semester to check the Honors listing in the Registrar's Office,.Rm. 110 in the incident. Dating can put a special burden on Joe just to flip a switch at the beginning of Average, but sophomore Joe Elston has a the semester." Perkins Adm. Bld., or in the office of your academic dean. The listings can be quick solution for that. The trip to and from SMU is also a ma- reviewed from 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m., March 17 and 18. tes "I believe in equal treatment." he says. ' jor expense for students living outside of Honors Recognition is based on the following criteria: an Resource Women's "Everyone should pay his own way. And Texas. In fact, the trips back and forth to next year ThiS is an that means girls on dates." California cost freshman Alison Greene meet at 9 pm in the One of the things that the Averages $1,000 last semester. 1. That you are currently enrolled for the Spring Semester 1981 as a degree like to do on an entertaining weekend is "I also had to pay $200 to have my car COMPANY will pre- to eat out. In fact, they eat out or in their shipped down here," she said. "And seeking undergraduate. ullivan operetta. "Rud dorm rooms almost as often as they eat in another expense for me is the car-$40 a the Bob Hope Theatre the cafeteria. week." 2. That you earned 12 semester credit hours in the Fall Semester 1980. give a faculty piano ruth Audlloroum. Tickets For the commuters who. do live at MU ID home. the biggest expenses are gasoline 2-It you haven t sent 3. That you have, cumulative overall 3.00 or above grade point average through bills. dinner on March 25. the end of the Fall Semester 1980 (based on SMU work only.) by Thursday the 19th Sophomore Steve Falconer lives in the 20th Greenville with his parents, and he com- Continued from page I mutes 60 miles every day to classes. "I've got a friend about two miles It's worth it, say the commuters, to north, and we go together on gas," he those notes have their own rooms, their privacy and said. "but I still pay $180 a month." those notes their "real food." Expenses for the car have sophomore And, said freshman Josh Smith, 'It's Bryan Ferrell paying more than he can those Notes just a nice arrangement." afford. at TH ESIS that thesis INE copies AST copies SUMMER CAMP STAFF RESUME E that copy Secure your paid summer job by contacting IDED copy Tejas Girl Scout Council, P.O. Box. 64.15 IZED copy RENCIES Dallas, 75206 or call 214-823-'.l l' k 3 LABELS for application. 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Some of you went skiing down white-coated slopes under clear blue skies. Some of you jetted to the coast and stretched your bodies out on the white sands and im- mersed yourselves in the waters of the ocean. I took a Greyhound bus to Shrereport. Wait a second, this is no hard-luck fence separating me from the school story about how boring my spring and were staring at me. One of them break was: on the contrary, the above was a blonde and as tall as me. andhe paragraph's only purpose is'to let you asked rather harshly. ' gWhatgrade. know that I spent last week in the town of my birth, the place where I was reared. (Ugh! How the heck did such an awful word get to signify growing up?) The elementary school I attended is just a quarter-mile from my home: still, it had been years since in grade-school. Iwas scared to death I had taken a good look at good ol' of college gujys: they seemed so big University Elementary. and threatening. Apparently. I don't ' 3W CO( 1-E MEDICAL EXPR1S AE ALWA1 -ET LAST I could not believe my eyes. The strikefear into the hearts of sixth- playground that had seemed so im- graders. Oh. well... mense to my puny sixth-grade mind Observing- a rather rotund figure turned out to be a measly plot of land. on the playground brought another toimpose are The halls.., the basketball court... memory to mind. Richard Gullo. the library.., the auditorium.. they -would oppose . That was his name. Richard Gullo Fundamental misdirection were all miniatures of what I had be not to comrn was the bane of my existence. the remembered. It looked like the whole forts are un-A shroud that covered my chances for church-state VIEWPOINT place had been reconstructed by a happiness in grade-school. Richard Yes. folks. Goodbye love and ble specifically condemns freedom in wherein the n Japanese architect. was the fattest thing God ever made. By KEN PERRY forgiveness, hello sin and guilt. It the form of abortion, homosexuality, are"bad." As I stood there, gazing out over with the possible exception of a few Turn on the television at 10 a.m., won't be long now until Ralph and ERA. the playground, a bell rang within the species of whales. And I was the skin- Take. for ex and the king and queen of fundamen- Lauren starts making scarlet letter At times these people are funny. I guts of the building... it was after- niest. with no exceptions. Both being constitutional tal showbiz will save your soul on the polos. Here we go again with love-it- never really knew much about noon recess! Kids poured out from outcasts from the general clique of one thing to c PTL Club. Jim Baker, who resembles or-leave-it patriotism as ordained by Falwell until I literally ran to buy a the doors... a whole new bumper normal kids, afternoon recess for the grounds t a salesman for Ronco, Inc. and his God in the King James Bible. copy of Penthouse when I read that crop of little boys with high-water -Richard and I was far from fun. The violate certair beautiful jewelry adorned side-kick, I think our good he was trying to ban the magazine pants and little girls with ponytails teasing and harassing of other kids quite another Tami Fay, talk about a woman's forefathers-many of whom were from printing an interview with him. just asking to be pulled. drove us to the perimeter of the to advocate su place, sing songs more popular than atheists-would be shocked. The He never took much psychology, I I watched a'little girl with long playground. Richard would start hit- advocate a me "Drop-kick Me Jesus Through the religious right wants to make guess. They are funny when they black hair chase a boy who had grab- ting me and throwing me to the basic America Goal Posts of Life,"read letters from America a theocracy, and they think scream about salvation and Com- bed a Tootsie-Roll from her. That ground. ahndI would pick myself up measure, being starving old widows who have just they have begun with Ronald munism in the same breath. Elmer brought back memories of... and run and scream. "Stop.it! Stop nion of some. signed away their social security Reagan. Gantry step aside. I never knew the • Yvonne! That was her name: Yvonne! it!" And Richard's nineteen chins even more in checks, tell polyester jokes, and The Moral Majority, Falwell's fun- Bible said anything about how fun She had the most beautiful long black would quiver.like jello as he laughed the right of a preach about a Jesus only an au- damentalist lobby/corporation, sex in the back seat of a convertible hair I had ever seen, and I was madly and. mimicked Ty cries of "Stop it! Smeasureon t; dience for The Price is Right could started appropiately in Lynchburg, was until I woke up one Sunday mor- in love with her and sort of madly in Stop it!" That's what we did. every advocatingtt love. Va., with a handful of members. To- ning to "The Message" with Brother love with her little sister when I was recess.'morning and afternoon.:f ive therefore that Go to Oklahoma and you may be day, Falwell's "Old Time Gospel Billy Lee Jones. but a fifth-grader: Once I got to sit daysa week. Ruiiningaround yelling': lucky enough to see a 700 foot ver- Hour" is seen by perhaps 50 million when their next to her for one day because of "Stop it!S'top it!" at 'eachotlier ; church-sltate s sion of the Savior himself. Oral viewers in the United States, Canada They scare me, though, religious beliefs become statutes in a some special seating arrangement. Kids can be 'realruel. Roberts did. He's the one who built a and the Caribbean. Such logic. state constitution. I have never seen But, oh. what a day! We were pushing My thoughts about poor ol' hospital at ORU some people in Tulsa The fundamentalists love the pro- have- disallov the word America written in any Bi- our desks together at the beginning of Richard were broken by the sound of wish he never built. mises of the new administration. Southern Ch and it is scary to think that a class, and my thumb got smashed be- the bell that signalled the end of the Pick up the March Penthouse Welfare and social programs are not ble, ference to ad of zealots can prove to a nation tween her desk and mine: and she smil- recess. The kids got in line and magazine interview with the man only a waste, they are form of sin. group civil rights for that they are God's chosen saints. I ed and said she swas sorry. That was entered the doors that ledinto the himself, Jerry Falwell, and read about Defense buildup, they believe, is the anti-war think white hoods would fit very nice- the only time she ever spoke to me. I'll guts of University Elementary. You the fundamentalist plan to make God's answer to the spread of Com- moral ideal of ly over their white robes. never forget that. Never. know. I thought I'd never get out of America right by not only telling munism. Freedom should be worship- inSoutheast / I don't know what ever happened that place when I first got there. And America who it can go to bed with, ped, and they are willing to fight for I will upho to Yvonne after sixth-grade. I do college... well. it was something I but also by making it a federal offense time and space in the media. As inter- Ken Perry is a sophomore English/- Majority to lol remember that she had won the couldn't even fathom when my mind if it go to bed with the wrong person. preted by the fundamentalist, the Bi- journalism major. of choice in at science fair that last year. and her lit- was that young. The clocks went so of homosexua tle sister had gotten an honorable much slower back then: a week was a that, in the n; eii-niion. They were bbth real smart. real long time. a'month was forever, a the right to Iol Now it's your turn Gosh, she would have made a great year was eternity. Those were the If you have something to say to the rest of the campus, this is your girlfriend. days, my friend.... My reverie about Yvonne was medium: the Comment page. Deliver letters and viewpoints to The Daily broken by the realization that a David Sklar is a junior computer Campus office in the student center basement or mail to SMU Box 456. bunch of kids had come up to the science major. Sleeping in the classroom D sentence and start talking about what he was go- hand and his elbow to the desk (in order to be com- bathroom is at all times. VIEWPOINT ing to eat for dinner, how much he loved his wife. fortable but lookfashionably attentive). proceeded Some professors know Haydn very well. They by.THOMAS GOLDEN or that he was a Klingon come to blast-me out of to leave reality behind without the aid of drugs. As drone on and on for ten to twenty minutes and to existence. Then. after my hand suddenly repelled he fell asleep, his head would tilt back quickly. suddenly, just like in the Surprise Symphony. car "Economics is the science of allocatm Imntamm my pencil and I was aware that said pencil had This was rapidly followed by a repositioning of the some sleepyheads regain full consciousness to find rmsms..." Silence. Darkness. Warmth. You are dropped to the floor, my instructor was talking head back on the elbow and another lapse into that their fingernails are embedded in the ceiling alone in a room full of people. It seems to last an calculus again. I have records of this in my notes. sleep. This action gave him the appearance of to which they are clinging for dear life and they eternity. Then, a sudden feeling of panic engulfs "The mathematical symbol e is (some unreadable serenely nodding his head in agreement with have straight hair-standing on end. The pro- R BE you when you find that the muscles in the back of pencil movements reminiscent of what the hand everything the professor said, as if the gentleman fessor kicked the desk. LOUDLY. How many cha your neck are relaxing against your will and your times have you drifted off and had adrenalin kick situ head suddenly tilts back like one of those glass into your system with a kick of a desk? And then drinking-birds. You are thrust back into cold, un- The most exciting phrase in the English language is "One can you go back to sleep? Nooooo! Your eyelids, comfortable reality, and the memories of primeval more thing and we'll be done for today." It's like a collec- which five minutes ago weighed a ton, now repel 2' BE terror upon being forcibly ejected from your gravity despite your best efforts. wor mother's womb for having too good a time are tive shot of adrenalin into the class. I am convinced that the most exciting phrase in stat vividly relived. You have fallen asleep in class. the English language is "One more thing and we'll My notes in various classes could have been does during rigor mortis) thebest cook and the best taught the professor everything he knew and was be done for today." This phrase is l