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Friday. October 21,1971 Scrimshaw PageS Hotspots and Hightimes Around Westminster , . \ Kim Kost new bar in town (a 5-10 minute campus and could provide lor an from. For those of you who desire frequent them. Are you tired of spending your walk) that also serves food. Prices enjoyable evening that isn't too more culture than- is available in weekends the same way? Or are moderate and the atmosphere expensive. Westminster, the Baltimore Towson, Md., is another option perhaps your favorite fraternity is a comfortable one. Frisco's and The Carroll Theater in West- Musewn of Art has many visiting and is only about a 40 minute drive. had its clubroom taken Pizza Hut are comparable minster doesn't provide much exhibits to add to the valuable If you like crowded places, away ...Whatever your reason for restaurants with a family at- choice in movie selections but permanent ones. The museum is Hooligan's is highly recom- desiring a change of pace from mosphere. Perhaps you might I usually a popular flick is running. open seven days a week and there mended. There are three areas WMC's activities, perhaps this enjoy either of these when Englar The Village Theater in Reister- is no entrance fee. The Walters Art inside one building-a bar. a article will be sort of a guide for Cafeteria just doesn't hit the spot, stown is about a 20 minute drive, Gallery is a bit further in town but restaurant, and a discotheque with you. Although many think of or if you'd like to start your night and there are two selections to some of their exhibits are well a bar. Souris' Saloon is around the Westminster ...~s a dull place that off with a couple pitchers of beer, choose from. The Mini-Flick worth the ride. Again there is no corner from Hooligan's and is closes down at dusk, there are available at either restaurant for Theater in Pikesville (45 minute admission price, and a multititude usually pretty well packed, but some places that remain open: an average price. The Black drive) also has two choices, The of interesting exhibits. their prices are reasonable. The Maggie's Bar and Restaurant (a Lantern is a bar just outside Mini-Flick offers student discounts Dulaney Inn is also close by and healthy 20-30 minute walk) is one of Westminster (about 3.5 miles) that (half-price) to shows started Baltimore's Inner Harbor (about provides music, alcoholic them. Recently remodeled, provides potential wild times at a before 7 p.m. 90 minutes) is-no.t only a beautiful beverages, and good times. Maggie's has a good selection of . reasonable price. Although the Outside of Westminster spot: it is full of action and ac- sandwiches and also a bar atmosphere is far from plush (and There really isn't that much tivity. There are many ethnic Washington, D.C. is another providing alcoholic beverages. certainly not Iamily-style) , a group more to do in Westminster (at festivals held there throughout the alternative, particularly in Prices may be a bit high for those of -friends could make for a good least this reporter hasn't found year, as well as free lawn concerts Georgetown. There are lots of fine of us with limited incomes, but time. any other options), but there are/ ana boat shows open .to the public. bars, kinky people, and good Maggie's is a nice treat when you Other Alternatives places close enough to WMC ~o T.here are va,,?us bars, dancing spots to be considered if do have some extra cash because Bowling is another option to be spend an evening. Baltimore IS disc?theques, and n~ghtcl.ubs In you're willing to spend your money the atmosphere is relaxing and considered. The Westminster about 45 minutes away and has a Baltimore that vary In price, at- on the high prices. Most of the cordial. The Decanter Lounge is a Bowling Alley is close to WMC's variety of activities to choose mosphere, and people who nightclubs have a cover charge, and drinks are more expensive Writer's Union Creates Literary A.ctivity than in Baltimore, good Towson, or is time A Westminster. almost guaranteed at the places in Georgetown, and even more so if Nancy Menefee who write and publish--to educate being written on the outside world like to entertain and to make you entov disco music. Joe Gainer lives in the kind of big the r,roup of writers on campus to will hopefully lead to awareness things. The nature of the Washington also houses the white house you think of when share with each other in the hopes and individual growth as a writer. organization is activity; it's not Kennedy Center for Performing someone mentions fall, or small that their interaction can lead to coming to meetings and talking Arts, which provides exce1lent towns. The house has a big wooden more creative action." Contact with outside literary about what they want to do, it's shows, exhibits, and other in- porch, leaves in the yard, and a development is important, but Joe doing it." He expressed his hope -teresung events. The Smithsonian wooden screen door that really The Writer's Union houses' a is also coneerned with utilizing the that this kind of attitude would Institute has many buildings to be slams. Joe has a battered brown small press library which provides dynamics of the writers on this catapult other people into activity. visited which would make for a jacket and a book of Carl Sandburg the students with examples of campus. He characterized them as diversified day. And, of course, all poetry. Joe and the house have a different types of current "a group of people who by their "When you're with imaginative the national monuments like the ....... strong interest in common-writing. literature and experimental very nature do things, they're not people engaged in imaginative Capitol, the Lincoln Memorial, The The house is occupied by eight writing. This contact between what people who spend 90 per cent of activity, things which usually seem Washington Monument and the people, all of whom are interested students are writing and what is their time being entertained--they impossible become possible. White House can be visited in in writing, and Joe Gainer is one of Because the group is engaged in Washington the major forces behind Western imaginative activity, the Maryland's Writer's Union. possibilities are endless. The If anyone would like extra in- energy of these people who have formation about places to go or The Writer's Union is a sparks spurting out their lips and directions to any of the places relatively new group on campus, blinking off their fingernails... mentioned, contact this reporter, although the original idea goes something's going to come of it." . ext. 354 or Blanche 11 back two years, when a man called \ Robert Day visited the WMC campus. Robert Day was a .~MoreNews Flashs I professor who were with interested WMC in ~ cafeteria menu: "Fly Under at Washington College, he talked some and l Washington of a writer's and Jesse Writer's The ~ arrested WMC and charged with second Glass." juicy horseflies consists fresh from students Phil LaPadula The recipe of two College's A has been student plump, Glass Union. Joe Gainer -a a manure Brown's pile in Farmer were two of these students. degree your lunch. with cow pasture. Enjoy murder in connection J: union stayed concept death of a vending they minds, and in their thought machine. about it on and off for the next six ,~ the beating The Servo- Mat machine Detroit. Oct. 21-- in Tire head was found floating months. Together they spoke to was declared dead on arrival at Lake Michigan. One leg was people who were taking writing Carroll County Hospital. spotted a half mile down the beach, classes, friends who were writing, The altercation began when the and an arm a quarter of a mile and Del Palmer, the head of the machine ate the student's money. from that. For details, see the Comparative Literature Depart- The student retaliated with the left sports page. mid-section, hook to the machine's I. ment. the writer's movement Browns Harlem Talk breaking its plastic front. The 1'----------- When a sharp countered with first started, there was only a himself through his wit and insight. machine sizzle. It was then that the "Iomorros:, e1ectric that made the shock handful of interested students. A His most famous book, "ManchiJd student meeting last spring showed sub- Tim Windsor and Nancy Menefee In the Promised Land," which is stantial support for the idea, and Last Wednesday, students had regarded by many critics as a student delivered the fatal blow, a and tomorrow, sharp kick to the machine's change this fall, a full-fledged Writer's an excellent opportunity to listen masterpiece, was originally box. A Pinkerton guard dragged Union was born. and talk to one of the more in- written because he needed the the student, away from the machine. and tomorrow» ob- screaming The Writer's Union will be the fluential modern authors. Those money. While money was not the scenities, center of all literary activity on who seized this chance, and went to only motivation in writing the He is being held on 25 cents bond. Macbeth campus. It will arrange activities hear Claude Brown at either of his book, as Brown puts it, "It sure such as poetry readings for both on two talks certainly spent their time provides that incentive." It was and off campus poets, and poetry well. because of this that he was able to Washington. Oct. 21- workshops. The Writer's Union will Mr. Brown had two separate justify the time it took to write the The U.S. Senate (otherwise also be a cooperative financial presentations, the first of which book he knew he had in him. known as the Congressional Gong for it. The earlier you venture for people who are in- was in the afternoon. He talked Show) has announced that its guest Prepare a life insurance program. the ~gin terested in putting their work into about growing up as a poor black in A long way from Harlem now, speaker at todav's filibuster will be less you pay. Find out about the print. This will provide writers America, in the city. Talking at his book having passed the three- Wayne Hayes, who will speak for CollegeMaster.plan. with a chance to publish without length about himself, he told of the million sales mark, Claude Brown 18 hours on "Human Sexuality bearing the whole financial burden "system," set up in the city, is far from finished with writing. After 60." As one Senator com- I ('~IIIb<-Hd~I;" l n~'n,',,11'"11<\10"." .;~Id \",,,·i.,. ;n)."u, ., ... themselves. designed to teach the younger kids He recently finished several years mented, "It beats listening to It's not easy to formulate a goal how to steal and pull off other of research on a new book. This Strom Thurmond read the phone for the Writer's Union, and Joe successful crimes. Taught by the work, considered by Brown to be book!" articulated this problem, saying, older, more experienced "street his most important, will deal with "To impose a bureaucratic kids" how to surotve in their world, the problem of heroin in the inner- Dade County, Florida- organization on a creative process the younger kids had a much better city. After having a fruit pie thrown in will inhibit it." chance of making it. His stories of her face during a meeting, Anita However, one ovthe most everyday life in the inner-city were Calude Brown was a welcome Bryant's first words were "At least .~' valuable contributions of the well told and spiced with street talk visitor, bringing with him quick wit it's fruit." However, after thinking Writer's Union will be the contacts and quick humor. and interesting stories, sharing his it over, Ms. Bryant admitted that it establishes for the students. Joe experiences both as a child in she would have really prefered clarified this idea by saying, "The Later in the day, after dinner, Harlem and as a young author, vanilla cream. goal is to make people aware of Mr. Brown spoke about his ex- famous even before he graduated what is going on in the literary periences as a writer. He began by from college. Western Maryland College- literary world--the thousands and writing letters to a name for A new dish has been added to the magazines, making I thousands of outher Americans li ..