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Rouzer fugitive speaks A question of freedom It's your paper too! Tim Windsor and move the nothing But go on, try "ROUZER SUCKS!!" furniture. Just try. Unbolt it and which turn rooms into corridors. than glorified more What? you get an ad.warning. Cover it up Rouzer rooms look like some Students may think that they have found a real bargain when "ROUZER SUCKS!!! Hev they pick up a copy of the Scrimshaw free of charge from the Rouzer...WAKE UP!!!" and it looks the same. Bring in an consultant's idea of what a dorm cafeteria or the student center, but appearances can be mis- I roll over and glance at my extra chair and there's no room to room should look like. "Bolt it all move. leading. Scrimshaw will spend almost $6,500 in t?e upcoming clock. Wonderful things these down or they'll take it with 'em I spent in thet years place Three school year. That's alot of money, and it brings with it- digital numbers ..fhey tell you Three years of broken bolster mag- when they leave, eh?" responsibility. The student body has a right to expect that it be exactly what time it is and, thus, nets, wobbly chairs and weekly Three years to wise up. But I'm spent with their interests in mind. exactly how angry to be when fire drills. Funny, but I actually outoftherenow One of the most important goals of any newspaper is to.serve some zealot the next floor down miss it a bit. Especially the nightly "WAKE UP ROUZER!!" as a source of information. It can be difficult to keep up With all decides to vent his frustrations by Oh yeah, one other thing I've the activities at WMC. Scrimshaw will work hard to publicise screaming at the fop of his lungs. SQUEEZE-·CHUNKl of two hun- noticed since moving over here is and stimulate interest in special events before they happen. We Itwasexactly2:37. That's A.M. dred beds being pulled out from the that I never heard these goons will also review and analyze such activities for students who For some unknown reason, I be. wall. Must've been hell for In- when I lived in Rouzer. Here, I get somnlacs. might not have been able to experience them first hand gin to hear other voices chimIng in. the full fidelity effect. So, now that This doesn't mean the Scrimshaw will be predictable It Windows are rolled up as each new So, I moved to Maclea where you I'm living in Maclea, I get to fall should be fun too! Features and columns by writers with wit (or convert testifies for the first time can move the furniture. It's not asleep to the carefully or- so we think, anyway) are always a welcomed distraction from absolute freedom, but it's chestrated strains of abuse now boring Thursday morning lectures. Scrimshaw will always be The pitch intensifies Into a tren- something. After au if you want pouring out of at least fifteen ned. incoherent screech. malign. looking for the news that is different. Every story may not be ing all that is "Rouzer." Howard to, you can pile everything ..beds, windows. clearly related to WMC, but if it is interesting or entertaining, il Beale had the right idea..give desks, dressers.ante one corner That's right ...fall asleep. L for has a place in the paper. people something to believe in. and leave the rest of the space bare one, am not going to lean out my The Editorial pages of a college paper should serve as an open just to annoy visitors and main. window at··lets see-exactly 2:41 forum for all the members of the college community. The staff I slip down from the top bunk and tenance men. No more of that end strip my vocal chords to within will write editorials, but personal viewpoints and letters to the grope my way through the careful, logical ordering of the pre. 1Ininch of their life. editor provide everyone with an opportunity to contribute new darkened room, heading for the fab, custom designed dorm units Well. ..maybe once or twice. perspectives on any issue. Outside inputs of this nature are bathroom. As longas I'm up... fundamental to a newspaper's effectiveness in serving its Which reminds me: Using the readers. bathroom in Mac1ea is always an Foreign grants "full. The doorless The editorials are not intended to be the final word on any adventure. stalls leave you wree issue. It is the staff's responsibility to provide informed opinions disclosure" end intended as a partial qrent-In- on issues which are important to the college community. The open to any visiting parent who English Department. aid. editorials will not reflect everyone's opinion. But that is not their mistakenly thinks "that door The 1981·82 competition for Applicants must be U.S. citizens intention. If they help readers to better understand (or at least there" is the one to their Johnny's grants for graduate study abroad at the time of application, and start thinking about) new ideas, then they have been successful. room. Whaf a fine how·d'you·do offered under the Fulbright Pro- must generally hold a bachelor's Special "theme" issues will also be featured fr~m time to that can be. gram and by foreign governments, degree or its equivalent before the time. Some people will be left asking, "What has this got. to do "HEY ROUZER ... TRY corporations, universities and beginning date of the grant and, in with us?" Nothing and everything. On a campus the size of MOVING YOUR FURNITURE private donors will close on Oc- most cases, should be proficient in Western Maryland's, it is easy to forget about the real AROUND!!" tober 31, 1980. Only a few more the language of the host country. world. But the real world is still out their waiting for us to I laugh and the echo jumps back weeks remain in which qualified Application forms and further graduate. Writing about its problems won't make them goaway, at me, louder than life. Better not students may apply for one of the information for students currently but it is a first step in the right direction. sit here chuckling to myself, I approximately 511 awards which think. Makes the freshmen ner areavailable t052 countries. enrolled in Western Maryland College may be obtained from the Personal Viewpoint Most of the grants offered Fulbright Program Adviser, Dr. provide round-trtp transportation, Melvln Palmer, who is located in tuition and maintenance for one Watertower leaks academic year; a few provide Memorial HaiL Room 212. The deadline for filing applications 01\ international travel only or a stfp- this campus is October 10,1980 Robert Holt this person will have become class committee. The Freshman Class Letter to the Editor contest. Itall sounds logical on the opinion of the election officers, and F As of the .end of the fr.eshman president by a decision ct no President has been ejected by the . Class offrcers nomrnatlon deadline, the WMC Freshmen will surface, however, there is a flaw in ;;:,~:,,:h:'~::~:'ngT,,:,~nl~n,::;~: or your convemence only see one name nominated for the election officials' reasoning. Freshman Class President. It is a Theelectlonofficersassumethat response to this statement is "what Dear Sir: pleased to make our copy of that strong Indication of student apathy because this one student applied else can be done about it?" In your first issue of thIs year catalog available to interested when only one person runs for for the office, the freshman class Unlikely as it may seem, there is appeared an advertisement giving persons. student government position, it is a assents automatically to his being an alternative to the solution tak~~ ail address where students could Sincerely, sign of deterioration in modern named to that office. But does the by the election officers that wou send for a "research paper" William McCormick, Jr. society. What is more alarming is freshman class, as a body, want remo~e any question of lm- catalog. To spare students the Dean of Academic Affairs the fact that this one person will this person for class president? walk into the Office of Freshman Are there aspects of this persons pr:;~~;y~ominee for a class office expense and effort, we would be Class President without an affirm character that some members of shouldb. requlredtoconon'. New view for activities ing student opinion. the freshman class do not desire in "YES OR NO" ballot. The rm According to one of the up- a class president? The answer to pllcations of this tvpe of ballot are running smoothly. perclassmen officiating the these and other questions will not clear. If a nomtnate~ person, Jill Armacost Ms. Carney's ultimate goal Is to election for Freshman Class ct. be known since the decision has running as the s~le.nomrnee, does Yvette Carney is no ordinary bolster student development. ficers, at the nomination deadline been made by the election rules not receive a malorrty of yes votes freshman. She is an administrator Personally, she feels activities and from the voting population, he can .. but also a freshman, In the sense academics to be on the same level not legally assume the powe~sand that for her, WMC is a new job, of importance and that activities Scrimshaw responsibilities of tile offrce to location and personality. Ms. of follow students throughout their per Carney is the new Director and lives their enrich which he was nominated. If a sole nominee should not receive a majority v~te in his Student Activities. from Nor. sonalities. Result: a mature and wen-eotustec ecuu. She hails originally Editor in Chief. . Bill Byrne favor, then that offrce, ~o~~ folk, Va., and received her Ms. Carney has some definite Managing Editor. . . SueFrost re~aln ~acant a~d the f n::c~e:~ion education from lincoln University ideas In the planning of student Photography Editor. . Adam Wright offrcer rn the hne 0 d in Pennsylvania. Prior to her programs. She bellves that News Editor. . . Keith l. Arnold would assume. the pow;.rs ~n t present position, she was Assistant programs, lectures, etc. should Sports Editor. . . Meredith Rankin responsibilities of that 0 t r~e, u Director of student activifles at the and are going to be geared to Feature Editor ............•.. . ..... Robert Holt not the title. This ~o~~ept rnsu;~s University of Maryland, Baltimore students. For the most part, the Science Editor . .. . . . . . .. . . .. . .. Terry Dom the students rig . 0 h . e County campus. focus will be on problems which Advisor .. .... DaveCleveland Ad Manager. . Sherri Linkoff ~~~re~nt:~~ve:a~~ t~~~ ~r~~~~ dr::s~~s;O~~gn~o~:entz:e:s~:~ ~i~~~':;I~.~tC~h~:~:~~:e;~~~i:a7i:~ Ad Layout Janet Trainor ~i~~~I~I:~c~ ~~atoff::eeS :~~tO~~~~~~ke~o~o~e:si~:lleg;it~Ud~~t~ ~a~n~;j~~ c~::irn~ ~~~~e:tIY~n~oS~ Layout. . Mimi Griffin, Karen Street Typist. . . : : : Mimi Griffin ca~~I;d;:~on who takes on the :~s::~~~~. t~~e i~a:ep~:so~Ui~~;~ ~~:!itt~oe:.pri~eh~S Ofmo~t~de~: Distribution Manager. . Les Martin :~~::::::~::~~,~:~~,~~:~:~~:~~:~~[~f.~I~~~~f~~~:~~f~~~:f~}~~~E}~:;:;,~:~~:;;;'~~~~~:~~~f~:~:~~~~i;:~:~ OppOSrnQ"Tewpoin....lfyoudHlre'obepubli.~.orwl.h'ocommunlc"teln"ny atlves are in office by majority ~i:~~~~ns:~;,~~ii~:tf~~II~~v~~i:~: ~~~i~~n:n~o:!:e~~~~:i~I~~~~;~~ L..__ ~:_':"9"_'_:~_~_,~_~~ea_.t:_'.·_2~_~;_"_m_.'~_"_"_"_"_'m_'''_w_.,_,,_,._W_"_'''_" M_'_~_"~_.....~~~~:~nt~. the students being In other words, to get fhlngs and sugQestlons.