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Wednesday, February 26, 1975 Scrimshaw Page 5 Letters to the Registration editor cant. in 7 hours flotr io~n:e h~~s~:p ~eU:lr~f~~;!in~ 3aron L. Ta!IIler Fund appeals. It it were not for Having transferred from the the almost 50 students who Univ. of Md. last year, I've had assisted us by stuffing, o the opportunity to contrast the stamping, labeling, and daily life, and the ad- sealing these 7,500 envelopes, ministrative antics at both the job would have been im- schools. All in all, I've come to possible within the time the conclusion that life at WMC available. The efforts of some is immeasurably easier, and of the members of the Cameo much simpler. Although I don't Coru and other students were have time to delve deeply into instrumental in accomplishing all the aspects concerning a difficult task. daily life at both institutions, I This is not the first. instance will relate a few typical in- • that students, and the Cameo stances of daily life at the U. of Crop in particular, have M., and let you be the judge. assisted our office. We deeply Stop and think about theJast appreciate .the many hours time you registered for courses they are willing to give in here. How long did it take you? helpirlg!with the Annual Fund , I did it once in 4 minutes, and of the College. In a very real the longest it's ever taken me sense the students are helping . is 25. Now I stop and think themselves. We want them to about the first time I know we do appreciate their registered at Maryland. I was giving of their time so standing in line at the generously. registration office, with over Most cordially, 600 students in front of me. We Gerald F. Clark, Jr. all had to see the same advisor ~ Director of Annual Funds for his signature. When I finally filed into his office, he Dear Editors, was sitting in his chair, talking Hey, what's happening? The on the phone, and stamping the first Scrimshaw was great. It students' forms with a rubber covered campus events, ~-- stamp. I don't think he ever problems, and pleasures in a saw me, and in the two years I manner that was warmly was there, I saw him twice. Next we went to the arena. received by just about everybody. But the second one, This was stationed in a well, the comments I've heard building three fourths ofa mile bring to mind the picture of a from the advisor's office. After pushing my way in, which is no defeated Roman gladiator being given the thumbs down understatement, considering .• before death. dangers that appear to lurk in is to protect us from our that there were over 5,000 not from surroundings, our- There was more than just a your dark corners. Now the selves. If I want to spend the World students in the arena all trying little that happened that week evidence is in, and you have a to register for the same which was not ~c;()vered by real problem, and it won't go night in Fitten dorm and a co- classes, I took my place in line "our" paper, the Eastern away until you acknowledge its ed there feels the same way news ~:~~~~~~or:O~efi~~~~O~::~ Brass concert along with five existence with more than there is no hassle from Tech varsity sports events for another lecture on carrying hat police. I can come and go at The Israeli government has hundred people ahead of me. example. Come on people! pins and not dressing any hour as long as someone recently released its own When I reached the desk, and This is campus life. THIS is suggestively (like what? .... there will let me in. At times policy to bring peace to the asked the teacher for the what I'm interested in. Don't potato sacks"). this is inconvient, and it's Mideast: There will be no computer card for my course, waste two out of four pages of meaningful 'territorial con- he informed me that my precious print on "Letters to All the hat pins in the world :!%:~!~~~t~~b~e d~~e~~rir~J: cessions without concrete steps section was filled, and that I the Editor." As for the photo won't do as much good as one for some piece of mind. At toward final resolution of the had to go back to my advisor contest, if your photographers locked door. That stays locked. least "nobody (or thing) else .Middle East conflict. This before I could transfer sec- can't get a few pictures on the ~i~~:~~a~r~~ ~~ftS h~~ee a~~ can surprise her. means that Israel will not give tions. This was a 1 1/2 mile " Scrimshaw then maybe these up the strategic Milta and Gidi round trip. This .Yls!ous cycle guys can. It's kind of boring spring for new locks. A~d ~old a!~;s~~~o~e c~nat s~ c~~:j; passes or the Abu Rudeis oil continued for 5 courses, and I justlooking at four pages of on t? the master keys this lime. dismiss your safety as too field unless and until Egypt walked over 10 miles before I white on print. (It IS a federal. off~nse to at- expensive. It seems a case (for agrees to sign an agreement completed registration. I had As for M.R., or G.J.W. my ~~mvt;,the duphcatlo~ of the ,all you Econ jocks) of ex- pledging per manent "non- done it in 7 hours flat, which advice is that she and her stud best keys you are Issued. I ternalHies where the ad- beligerancy. In the rest of this was considered very fast for a can go somewheres else for can personally attest to that.) rri.inistratio~ isn't the one that their "heart to heart" sessions pays for the costs resulting ~e~~~~\:e~c;i~!nU~~e{;~~_ fr~~f~~ went on,. an~ I~ if the roommate is such a And it's about time your from their cheap-wad policies. Kissinger during his visit to learned how to butt In hne, simple twit as not to know Pinkertons got something to r-Aormntsu-anon'' .... isn't that Israel last week, the Israeli work with friends who would when privacy is wanted. After protect themselves and you. a word with real con- officials said they would be stand in other lines, and other all, he's paying half the room Guns may be ugly but does the n o t a t io n-s ? .just like prepared to give up "almost devious means ofconnivance, I an asthmatic prospect 'of fee, not her. Pinkerton trying to stop a knife "Establislunent" used to be). the whole Sinai" if Egypt managed to cut the ttrne down Other than these remarks I I'd like to know what he takes agreed to make final peace and to 3 hours. . think we've got a good paper wielding degenerate in the as the cost of rape in his establish normal relations with The size of classes was going. for us. Here's for. im- middle of the night with a can calculations. How much eoes it their country. always another peeve of mine. provement and success. of Mace give you a cozy feeling cost to undo the damage? The At.the time I transferred, the E.H.S.orW.P. inside? A gun can frequently question is ridiculous. There is About one-half of the smallest science course I had (Take your pick) do its job without being used. no way to fix a cost on the crewmen flying food and had 500students in it. If worked Tech's own private police have shock and trama it brings. I out mathematically, this gave carried guns for years, and suppose I'm. a little too con- ammunition to Cambodia were each student about 8 seconds a Dear Editors: have yet to point them at a cerned to be objective, but I recruited' from the U.S. Air semester to talk to his Force active reserve, and most professor in any given science (They are single student. would urge new locks, real live As someone I care about rumored to be unloaded except guards, the help of the male of the others are ex-Air Force class during that teacher's deeply goes to WMC, I am for one silver bullet, secretly of the campus, and men. Bird Air cargo service, office hours. Plenty of time to alarmed at the security carried by one of the Iorce.) population with a using cargo planes furnished rap. if necessary, castration situation that is supposed to Does this entail a reversion rusty can-opener to make by the U.S. government, took I could go on and on. The protect her. And you. For it to a 19M-ish state? Hardly. WMC a safe place to learn. over Cambodian supply flights suicides, rapes, crime, having surprises me to find that the Other than constantly ragging 'fours, from the U.S. Air Force last to make appointmerits with co-eds at Georgia Tech, at us for parking infractions, NEAL RHODES October. The air flights into your advisor two weeks in situated in the murder capital the Tech police enjoy the Georgia Tech 37611 Phnom Penh have been in advance .... I'm not suggesting of the country, surrounded by respect and co-operation of the AUanta 30332 creased in recent wee ..s that life at WMC is a pure slums, dives and worse, are entire student body. Their duty because of an insurgent of- Utopia, but compared to other safer at night than you. Why? Dear Editors fensive that has cut off most of schools, we have it pretty good Maybe because Tech has Thanks for the first issue of- the land and water supply here. This doesn't mean, always faced urban crime "Life is much too com- Scrimshaw. I thought it was routes. Now, the amount of though, that we, the students, squarely. WMC and the land it plicated. Simplify, Simplify, great and hope that it con- supplies airlifted to Cambodia faculty, and administration, sits on e"X\!_dea placid aura of Simplify! tinues. is 300tons a day, according to a should let up for one second in quiet and safety. When I visit, I Thoreau. Sincerely, :liplomatic source in Phnom our efforts to improve student find it hard to imagine the WilburD. Preston,Jr. Penh. life.