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Wednesday, September 24, 1976 Scrim_shaw Page 3 The First Week :Heaven or Hell? Ki~W:~e;;:!:~ study in my room that hinted of her was a blanket on stuff," as one put it,- and who and I regretted it," she groaned. wouldn't be able to. see straight, the other day when I suddenly the bed, a few clothes in the closet, would, in general, make' Hie Another said, "It's really starting and, of course, that's exactly what became grossly aware of my and one tiny picture that was miserable. There was a happy to get raunchy. Did you see the happened. What do the freshmen neighbors. Laughing hysterically drowning in a sea of green wall. I aiding for everyone in this one; vegetable soup? God, it looks like a say about the first week of classes? over their already blaring stereo, don't know what I had expected, though; they hit it off with their bioexperiment." Most of the frosh "They're a challenge," was one they made a quick exit from their but it looked so empty. I knew that roommates, and after a week of did like the food, however. comment that left an awful lot to room and began chasing each could be remedied, though, so I living together, everything is still (Wonder how long it will take .. .) the imagination. One frash just other down the hall. When I stuck could hack the room. When I b.K. Then, there's always. something came nat out and said, "I'm my head out the door to see of they finally met my roommate, my first called a social life. Hum ... my first astonished at how hard it is." Most would please calm down, I was impression was that we had ab- 1 still remember my first taste of taste of WMC social life came at thought it was pretty difficult, pr actieally molested by a flying solutely nothing in common, which cafeteria food. I thought it was the mixers given during freshmen realizing that it won't get easier, bucket of water. Although they did turned out to be absolutely correct. ·great. Buffets are always served orientation weekend. My but everyone seemed to like their manage to turn the hall and half of She wore jeans, I wore dresses; during orientation weekend, and memories .of that are vague; I do courses so far. my room into the Atlantic Ocean, I she cou1d be ready in the mornings then gradually over the course of a recall, however, boys on one side of When I asked for any final cou1d easily forgive them simply in five mj.nutes, it took me an hour; few weeks, things get worse. So, I the cafeteria and girls on the other comments, I found out that most of because I knew they were fresh- she never studied and passed, I was curious to hear the freshmen's The comments from freshmen them really like college life. "The men. I mean, Jet's face it, there's studied and flunked; she wanted fir-st impression of cafeteria food, were mostly the same. "Everyone people are fantastic ... I love it." just something about freshmen, the door and window shut when I and the reactions were just as I was just standin' around and One said, "I'm waiting until after especially during the first week of wanted it open, etc. Things worked expected. "Just great," "I was everything." "Things were a little the weekend to see what I think of school when you have to be extra out well, though, as it did for the impressed," and "a really good slow." "We just stood around and it!" There was one freshman in rowdy so that you don't feel the freshmen I talked to. Most of them variety" were pretty .popular looked at each other." "They had particular who seemed very shock that is slowly enveloping you were impressed with the size of comments. "It wasn't as bad as I good free beer," was one comment dissatisfied. "I'm not thrilled. It's as you stumble through the their rooms. One girl on fourth thought it would be,". was another which mayor may not say much too conservative ... I guess I ex- nwnerous first week obstacles of n&r Whiteford thought hers was a one. "I'll eat anything" was a for the mixer. Their first look at pected a little more Berkley Or roommates, classes, and general little small but desperately added -commenr from a freshman who campus social life wasn't so hot, College Park. It's not too different o getting. yourself _ together ~ and' - that "it has a lot of possibilities." didn't care one way or the other. but they were all looking forward from high school." She desperately asking - the - ever - popular - When commenting about living on Some did note the drastic change to the weekend. asked me, "Do things pick up question - of - why - am - I - here. the fourth floor, she hopefully from the weekend buffets to week- around here? I'm very bored!" So So, I looked at this freshmen adde'd that "climbing four flights day grilled cheese. "I figured the Having climbed the obstacles of WMC isn't 'for everyone, but for rowdiness with the maturity that of stairs is good excercise." When I first meal was sort-er to impress getting here and settling in, all many freshmen their first week comes .....ith being an up- asked about roommates, everyone the parents," said one girl. And a that's left are classes. (l saved the was a good one, and they like it percJassman, and I felt a mile agreed that they had visions of few really are wising up. One frosh best for last.) All I can remember here. And after my first week as a disgusted and annoyed. I mean, J rooming with a total opposite lot who of was warned not to eat the cheese about classes so much work that I freshmen, I like it, too, and I still was a fear of being ?I~gF~f.~~~~~fi~Anili'e ' feorrWno'(feWs'inan d BIarneB uII was never that bad. And then all I "wouldn't do. a whole but I ate It anyway, sandwiches," hit with bring h first. freshman week, what ,t, had M.,k C. Bay,,' V been like, how I had feit, and then I THE COMMODES The fact that each member has his SUMMER". in the~ charts, spending two scraped some fre~tunen off the The Commodes are-six powerful own interests may be that Don't expect to see professional weeks in 1,26ath'place between the walls they had climbed and got musicians and dynamite vocalists distinctive element that always music makers fritter away their soundtrack of At Long Last 'Love their reactions to their first big whose definitive style and snazzy makes a Commode concert a summer time lounging around the and Teach Your Parrot Portugese. week at WMC. rhythm continues to "click" with "royal flush:'. Harvey Frink likes pool, driving fast cars, exploring Their new LP, what's The Matter Tammy Grimes' fans the nation collecting stamps and to~ing with beautiful islands in the tropics, or With Us? has a totally different over. They're one of the hottest model trains, while Morris Bongle wining and dining young women by sound, owing partly to the fact that r personally thought that I would acts currently playing the Dover, digs ~ail ~omme":l0rative~ and candlelight. For that matter, d~n't nobody in the group had eaten for never sur-vive the rest w.eek. All I Delaware dinner theater circuit. experimenting With railroad expect to see Blarney Bull doing five 'weeks prior to its cutting. had to do was take one look at the They're popular with Senior se~ups. Wilbur Sp~erk gets off .on that kind of thing either. Blarney Other comments on Blarney campus and I was all prepared to Citizen Birthday Banquets pj._1I1ately~n.d fooling around With Bull has been around for sixteen Bull: get lost. All of the freshmen that I everywhere, and made a special LIOnel miniatures, and st:!n1ey rears and should have ~tter luck THE NEW YORK TIMES-- talked to were relatively cool when sensation last year playing at the Vamp, always the group non- In the cards for them, .smce they "What they lack in talent they they first arrived, with some annual Ace Paper Fastener conformist", is into scale-sized now have no place to go but up. make up for in heart and soul. feelings of nervous anticipation. Employees'-Supper when one of .Iocomoti_ves and postage seals. They keep working at it, ignoring Blarney Bull has more heart and, The most numerous first im- them got drunk and forgot to wear Stan is considered the outspoken such joking remarks as that from soul than any group I've ever pression they had was that the pants on stage, member of-the group, two of whose drumm.er Irving's mother: "After heard." campus looked just beautiful. "It The group got their big start members are deaf-mutes. sixteen years, I wish they'd quit ROLLING STONE-"The type on seems very compact yet spaced when RCA booked them for a Although ':fhe Commodes make screwing around and get a job." their album cover is very at. out just enough," commented one Christmas tour with the Osmond their home in Western Coney Sixteen years? Yes indeed, and tractive and legible." freshman Saine said that Brothers. As golden-thr oater Island, they don't often find a Blarney Bull has seen it all. In _ ROCK WORLD-"Should find as "everything was in an uproar," but Dormy later remarked, "I gotta f!10m~nt to enjoy t.he comforts of former. eras, they':ve bee~ the many fans as last year, and both of added that everyone was very handittothem. Theywe_re the best ~Ife, SInce ~~me neighbor. or other Ch~Pleces, The Wild Ostriches, them shouldlove the album." friendly and that m"'n~ them feel janitors we ever had." From there is always filing a complaint about Morns and The Monotones, The CRAWD"_DDY - "Enjoyable, welcome. it all went downhill as in the disturbing the peace. They are Gerbils, The Twisted Steakknife; melodic, and brilliant. Don't miss. following s~son they a ...peared as booke.d to play at the Q:uebec Ore- The Unpaid Rent, Eviction, a~d them. Now, what was their agent The first thing that you do when a backup (or The Royal Guards- SmeltIng Tournament In Canada, Poverty Rowe. They manage then' saying about returning my 7-year- you're a freshman is go through men and succeeded. in holding and at the Rekjavik, Iceland, own business affairs, and last year old daughter unharmed?" the ever-popular process' of their audience for 45 minutes, until Sardine Festival. Then they plan to almost had a surefire method for The choice, is yours. Either you matriculation. I, personally, hate the police arrived and took their cross the ocean blue for a special selling tickets until they were can hire a big name group and to matriculate. I feel like I'm being rifles away. gig . in Beirut, Lebanon, as a informed that stopping passersby have a guaranteed good time, or Jrocessed and packaged. All of the The C0rnn:\odes are hoping to request from t~e government of on.. the str~et an.d threate~g you can do a good deed for your fresQmen, however, were im- recreate the 'feeling of their live Israel. Other trips to other lan~ sU1clde was Illegal In most states. fellow man. Give Blarney Bull a o pressed by it. How can you be shows OIi record However it are in the works. While in the ' Though Blarney Bull's album, calL..today, tomorrow, or six impressed by matriculation, you wouldbeimPOSSibr~torecreat~the meantime The Con~y I~land Fet~hed, did not become a months from now. They won't be ask? It's simple. "I was very sensation of their act on a piece of Chamber of Commer~e IS tryIng to superhit, it earned a steady place doing anything. impressed with the organization of vinyl, although a' piece of card- calculate plans by which the group qlatriculation-it was very well boa~d might do. the . trick. The can be permanently deported. run," said one frosh. Most Commodes' super combination of._ The Commodes have a new , everyone agreed. To them, ~:~'u;O:~~~'U:~:;~~~~l~t~:m~a~e: it:u~~::~d~7n~ matricul,atfonseemed very orderly {lnd 'organized. \ One girl com- follow, usually becauSe most of the deed, critic~ and audiences agree mented that. she felt like she was audience has walked out before the that the LP IS about as bad as you 'going through a milze, and com- lead group appears. Nightclubs can get. The album should. k~p pared'matriculation to a slaughter have in the past become reco.rd-starved fans ~o~g sabsfl~, - hous~, a~in, the processed-and- smoldering fUrnaces full of for It .meets all minImum daily pa-ck_a~ed, feeling. screaming fans, but as the group's ~equirements and is made in edible official electrician. Ernie "Pyro" plastic. We figure that The Com- Prendergaster states "Accidents modes' fortunes will soon change . . . . . can happen." Although The and that they will become the \ O.K., so m?trlculabon IS no bl.g Commodes have appeared with sm~sh of clubs 'and campuses. deal, .My first rea~ly traumalic such up and coming groups as When their new publicity cam- experlenc~ was seemg my room Braunbag, li'reshly Buried, and paign is put into operatio_n, which and meetmg my roommate, and Phlegm, sanguine, and Bile. They among other things mvolves most f~eshmen agreed. Whe~ ~ are now at a point 'where many changing their name to The ~~:~~ ~~~o;~~tf:~ :w~:: !~r:;for;~!;e::S~:~~~~~ith them Eagles. by green walls. My roommate had ' a spectacular enlrance." already arrived and had chosen the Each member has his own BLARNEY BU~ sideoftheroomshewanted ... that special "bag" tJtrou.ltb which he AFTER DAf\_K--"MUSIC is, I thought she had arrived. All adds to the group's overall sound. MAKERS STARVE FASTER IN