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SCRIMSHA-W WMC Students: Booorrrf,iinnnggg!! ! Sense of Frustration Nancy Menafee in the course of 4 supposed to know about the boredom is at an end. Nomore'will Sooner or iater, yearsatWMC,theaveragestudent second, and the third is con- you spend Thursday waiting for (or the really kinky student for troversial we hard-working cen- Friday. No longer will the high Picture this: It is Wednesday or Thursday night. You've worked that matter) is bored. Students sor-learing reporters won't delve point of your evening be cutting I diligently all week so you're ceuqht up with your work. Or you're behind tend to wander aimlessly around into that. However, we will tell you your nails. Never again will you but you don't particularly care. You're tired of studying, T.V., your the dorms saying plaintively, that, contrary to popular belief, make Dean's List because you had roommate and the library. You're broke. You're bored. And if you're "there's nothing to do." there are many exciting and nothing to do but study. Stick with attending Western Mlliryiand College, you're out of luck. WMC offers three major, ever- variedactivitiestodoatWMCthat us! ! You'll be entertained, and it The chances are fairly good that there will be nothing for you to do. The popular forms of entertainment: do not fall under the big three, won't cost a cent. You'll meet new weeknights offer pathetically little in the way of diversion, After a few drugs, sex, and booze. Since the Skeptical are you'? Well, if you friends! Life will shape up if only years the available diversions become as tedious as the routine. True, we first is illegal, and we're not follow our suggestions, your you read and heed Scrimshaw's ... do have the new game room, buf to use it requires that you have at least a quarter, and one game of pinball probably won't emevrete your boredom 21 Things to do When Bored Weekends present their own problems concerning the lack of activities. 1 SIt In the Student Center and 9 Tape all your roommates 17. Check your mailbox. At one point last year, it was suggested that instead of one big Fall watch peoplesteal plants socks to the ceiling . 18. Experiment with the han- Concert the funds be divided between several coffee house performers. 2. Sit m t~e quad and watch 10 Go see Dean Laidlaw about dicapped facilities in the Instead of spending $7000 on a large concert, we could divide up fhe people burn things finding a new roommate bathrooms. money and have $580 per weekend to spend. This also takes into con. 3 Try to guess which animal the 11 MIss your dog 19, Have a one person peeper stderettcn our close proximity to Washington and Baltimore, both of meat you had for dinner came 12 Check your mailbox revival campaign. which offer quality, top-name concerts nearly every weekend. Should we 20. Try to hck a t~tsie popal! the foolishly spend our limited funds when students can see concerts from 4. Cheek your mailbox. 13. Write articles like this or-e. and way to the center Without biting. 14. Sit by the watertower elsewhere? This option would still leave us the Spring concert. However, 5. Go ~lay "Heart and So.ul" .and wait for a plane to crash into it. 21. Count how many times the the idea was repeatedly voted down. The problem of boredom stlll "Chopsticks" on the organ m Little (This is highly recommended since names Deck~r, Baker, a~d. Ward remains. 11 seems inevitable that WMC will soon decline into a "suitcase Baker .., . it can occupy your entire four appear on this campus. Divide by school" and our sense of community will suffer. 6. Read the historical placards m ydars.) the n.umbe~ of m~nutes you .wasted The consequences of boredom are a far more severe problem than we the studentcenter._. 15. Find an interesting issue of reading this artl.cle. Multiply by think. The most obvious consequence is the partying that occurs on 7. Check your mailbox. Scrimshaw.