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c p..r Pithy Saying: "Life is an open book test ... " Dr. Alton Law Wednesday. January 21, 1976 "s.,with half the pages torn out." Volume 2, Issue 15 Anonymous Cynic Brian Trumgower SI"dl?llls Ssrelter III Winter WMC·School or Sanna Bath? Ma.ry Gately Traditionally, one expects residents had differing opinions on of heat fluctuation. The first. two keep them away from' any direct from open windows. January to be a very cold month in the heat, all seemed to agree that floors are quite brisk, but the two line of heat from the radiators. WMC's heat problem has a lot to which everybody bundles up in there was a great deal of fluc- upper floors are an unpredictable Stereo speakers, exposed to direct do with construction. While the sweaters and scarves, and extra tuation. Many keep their windows combination of summer and winter heat, can sometimes sound fuzzy older buildings don't have modem blankets are tossed on the bed. partially open to counteract the temperatures. Some of the rooms and full of static; and, as one un- heating facilities, the newer ones However, students and faculty at heat, and a few said that there was on the top floors are very hot, yet fortunate student found out too don't have individual room con- WMC seem to be having more than no air circulation, Whiteford Hall some are so cold that students late, records placed too near a trols, According to Mr. Yingling, the usual problems in adjusting to has most of the same difficulties as don't bother to remove their coats, radiator can warp and bend out of the ideal would be a valve radiator the change in climate. It may be Rouzer. As one Whiteford resident shape. If you have plants, and in each room which showed the cold outside, but inside the said, "When you're wearing you open your window to balance temperature-a solution which is classrooms and dorms, a small summer nighties in the middle of A few tips for donn dwellers: the heat, be careful where you obviously much too expensive. heat wave seems to be taking January, that's too hot." WMC's peculiar brand of sauna place your plants. They have a Still, many students wonder. why p1ace. heat often has adverse effects on hard time adjusting to intense heat do we have all that excess heat to Memorial Hall is a good example records and stereo speakers, so accompanied by blasts of cold air waste'? The excess of heat has been criticized by students in general as "ridiculous" and "un- Lewis Flooded Over Weekend 'comfortable," although reactions Mark C. Bayer tend to differ in various buildings. For those who may not have ternoon of Friday, January 16, Dr. and pipes in the lab had frozen Although the extent of the Quad residents, for example, have heard, a small accident occured in Jones turned off the heat in Room during the weekend. The sub- damage was at the time difficult to noted how "erratic" the heat is. Lewis Science Hall over the 311 (currently in use as a sequent thawing caused the pipes tell, Dr. Jones did note that the Both Albert Norman Ward and weekend, resulting in flooding on winemaking lab) before leaving to burst and the flood ran down to ceiling panels of the first and Daniel MacLea have trouble the first, second, and third floors. for the day. He also closed all the the first and second floors as well. second floors would probably have getting uniformity in 'room tem- windows except for one, which was A student, hearing the dripping to be replaced. Dr. Jones does not, perature. One student noted that Dr. Donald E. Jones, a science left up at half an inch. At ap- water, called Dr. John at ap- bowever, feel that the overall "it's either too hot or too cold all professor who is teaching proximately 11:00A.M. on Sunday, prox.miately 6 P.M. that day, and damage was extreme enough to the time," and several prefer to winemaking as a January Term January 18, Dr. Jones returned to Dr. Jones, Dr. John, and affect science classes come second turn the heat off completely. course, described the incident in Lewis and turned up the heat, not custodians were quickly on the semester. More will be published the following manner. On the af- realizing that some of the faucets scene to clean up. on the situation as more is learned. McDaniel seems to have similar .problems. As various residents A Conversation With Postmistress Young have observed, it is entirely possible to freeze one minute and Richard Naylor bake the next. Unless the radiators As everyone knows, time spent well. And she serves as a substitute wing of the complex and the female campus life in the' 50's. are regularly tended to, the heat with a new acquaintance or an old often becomes sweltering. friend is enjoyable. To compare organist from time to time at students in the other wing. MacLea I was interested in what else Although one girl said that "we experiences, to exchange ideas, or various churches. Hall, Rouzer Hall, and Whiteford troubled Miss Young about our haven't had any real problems," I to share dreams with others is, Miss Young came to WMC on Hall were not constructed in 1952. compiexsociety. "We have lost the noticed that her window was wide however, more than merely en- December 1, 1952. At that time the Neither was Baker Memorial patience required for really good open. The radiators in McDaniel, joyable, it is essential to our well- bookstore and post office were not Chapel nor Winslow Student Center craftsmanship." This remark like the ones in the quad, also make being. For in such conversation not separate operations. Both were built at that time. The Fine Arts seemed so terriblyapt in a society a disturbing "bang-hammer" only do we learn more about them, housed as a combined operation in Building functioned as the library that is in a constant rush. She noise at unexpected moments. but we also learn more about a building called Old Main, a in those days, and the dining hall continued, "People feel that they was in Memorial Hall. ourselves' as we see ourselves building since tom down. It was have to be busy. They have Blanche Ward has an old heating mirrored in them. It was in this through the efforts of Miss Young, system which gives off a very dry sprit that I sat down for two hours coordinating between the ad- There were so many changes in forgotten the simple pleasures .. kind of heat. Though each room of delightful conversation with ministration and the main post the physical plant of the college People don't do things together has an adjustable radiator, the Miss Irene Young, the post- office in downtown Wesbninster, over the years, I asked Miss Young anymore. Television has replaced radiators as a whole are more mistress of WMC. that the WMC post office became if she had noticed any changes in conversation. Mechanical things active than those in McDaniel or an independent operation from the the student body over the same have taken the place of human period. the quad. Sometimes the heat con- ~~:~~d~~ta~~ua~g a ~?~~!I "There has been a decided relationships." becomes so extreme that some Whe~ we began. our change in the dress code to' the I asked Miss Young what are students warm their rooms with ~::~;e~! a~:~~:l~,!~t t:, enjoyable challenge". casual," she said. She also noted 'some of the important things she in relating the heat left over from other that "there were more religious !has learned "Remember they to other 'people. are plain countrygirl who lived on a The mention of Old Main aroused 'groups then than now." She added, farm for thirty years, and who is my curiosity as to which buildings "In the old Grille, students used to human beings with problems and Unlike the older dorms, Rouzer trying to fill her niche in the world were here and which were not in have more fun. She was concerned joys the same as we have. It is in and Whiteford Halls do not have as best she can." She likes to sew, 1952. She explained that Old Main that "students cannot relax and tour innate nature to think of seH, individual radiators. Instead, each to make homemade bread, and to stood as a combined resident hall have fun. They have to work at it." and if we are not feeling well, we room has a. heating panel with take walks in the countryside. She for men and women. The male She also recalled that formal may not show consideration for vents on one wall. Although Rouzer is a devoted fan of Taylor Caud- students were one housed in one dances were a regular feature of continued on page 3, col. 3