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Volume 51 Number 2 February 14. 1974 IN THIS ISSUE: • CHRISTIANS VS LIONS • VOICEBOX .SPORTS To be or not to be: caught dead in Alumni? changing a certain bulb..a man experienced a few window and claim to have seen a statue move. unfortunate accidents. Within five days, hanging a Furniture is often rearranged within two or three byG ...ryPhitipl mirror on the set, the mirror slipped through the hours, while students in the building during that In the same fearless age sending men to the man's hands and slit his wrists. During the time did not hear a sound. Shades opened one moon, students at Western Maryland College are production this man was required to go through a minute are mysteriously closed the next. When shivering at the thought of entering Alumni Hall wooden tunnel, as part of the act. Afterwards his people become excessively loud and then quiet, so after dark. This group is not limited to a few giggly hand was severely splintered. When the original does Alumni Hall. The pipes stop banging, doors female freshmen, but instead encompasses a light bulb was replaced no more strange accidents slam and don't reopen and the radiator turns off. varied cress-section of the student body. Any occurred. Surely the man could be "accident Alumni's wooden floors make it possible to hear student questioned will know someone who ven- prone." But maybe the spirits sought vengeance on every step-a person takes. This includes steps to pull tured into exploration of Alumni, if he hasn't the set of hands that unknowingly tried to evict Shades, move furniture, slam doors and turn off the himself. More often than not, the brave souls can't them from their home. radiator. No footsteps have ever been heard. muster up such courage again and discourage Several stories involve invisible musicians. One Whether alumni is haunted or not may be a fact others from doing so. If the strange noises and student recorded himself playing Alumni's piano. never determinable. Many students unacquainted optical illusions are merely those things remains When he played the tape back it surprised him to with each other have experienced similiar oc- debatable. Possibly it is only lively imaginations hear a violin accompanist. Often organ music is currences in Alumni Hall. A few isolated incidents that set Alumni's stage. Nevertheless, there are heard while no one is visibly playing it. Someone are completely unexplainable. some startling stories about Alumni's magic. has seen an organist and violinist and has also seen Ghosts may easily be laughed off. However, One spine-tingler concerns the tradition of a them disappear. college graduates throughout the United States are "ghost light." It's said that inside every theatre one The proximity to Levine Hall might rationalize a experts in the field of parapsychology. (Study of the light is forbidden to go out. The light contains all the musical echo in Alumni. But why didn't the piano supernatural) Volumes of proof concerning spirits ever inhabiting the house. During Jan.-term student hear the violin music himself'? Incidently, walking after life (many in our own library) '72 Alumni's "spook light" supposedly identified there is no organ in the music building. logically and scientifically' present a strong itself. Understage and the basement storage rooms are argument. Count how many people you know, who During a dramatic production colored ltzhting the most frequently frightening places. In a locked claim no belief in ghosts, who wouldn't be "caught was required for effect. Following his action of wood-storing room students ha ve peered through a dead" in Alumni Hall. .