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October 8, 1987lWestern Maryland College/Page 5 60 Seconds on Campus ',\ _ Should WMC try to get its liquor license ba'ck? Kathleen, Yes, I think they I think it would be a I think it would do Yes, because Thurs- I think that there is should because it wise choice because some social good but day nights in the Pub enough alcohol on would cut down de- it would appease part it is sad that we have were fun and it would campus that students struction in dorms. of the student body to revert to alcohol be a good way for have easy enough And besides, what's and lessen damage for economic and so- the organization at access as it. is. a pub without alcohol. done to the residence cial reasons. • school to make halls. money. Noelle Gepp _ Jonathan Slade Mari Ruof Rodney Joyner Toni Crea Bruce Culver _ M.I.T.-sing or am serious? Most students who don't liberal arts students, also like to as well. It's the osmotic theory attend M.LT. feel compelled to foster the belief that MJ.T. of intelligence. And you know Walking convince themselves that this beings can only talk about things what, it's true. found around M.LT., I myself school, often considered me best like quantum mechanics, technical learning facility in the electromagnetic wave theory, and remembering all sorts of things nation, is a boring institution other things that have no about isosceles triangles and with white prison-block relevance in our where's-the-beer carcinogens. I was even able to classrooms and numbered society. tie my shoes in half the time. buildings. Unfortunately, all this is All of this, though, just Well, actually this true too. So I guess I might as proves one thing: Students are conception is true. well ditch the M.I.T.-students-are- naturally jealous of anyone who But they also think that all real-people theme. After visiting goes to a school that can still get students there are greasy geekiods the school a short while ago, I away with using periods in its with Coke-bottle glasses and was consumed by some goody- abbreviation. Most other. names like Percy, Edgar, and two-shoes notion that I could institutions (fSU, UMBe, and Maurice (names that we who defend the place. But who's Another guy spent the "Free beer? Free beer?", and then yes, WMC) have almost attend Icsser schools choose to kidding who? (An M.I.T. student evening dialing his roommate's drift away without really waiting completely eliminated hide as middle initials). As a would correct me--"whom.") phone, which was only a few feel for an answer. punctuation marks so as not to matter of fact, some outsiders Those who attend this school are away, then running over to confuse prospective students. even think that the school has not real people. They are genetic answer the second line. The scary thing is that You might say we've moved out rules about not accepting people mutants who were probably "Look," he said, "I can even people like you and I ("me") of our Period Period. But M.LT. named Bill or John, claiming that bombarded with Beethoven and put myself on hold." couldn't get into M.LT. even if clings. Of course, these marks admissions standards won't allow the Pythagorean formula while Most of this party, though, we wanted to. We're just not might be decimal points and not anyone in unless he has an still in the womb. I lounged around the dorm with crazy enough. And yet these periods at all. (Somewhere in S.A.T. score above 1600, and a At an M.I.T. dorm party, several M.LT. students and some lunatics are designing everything here, I think I've made a point. name that's either Slavic or some guy showed me a four-foot friends who had come with me, in our society-like this word Maybe.) Oriental. (If it is merely tall capacitor he had hidden behind all of us sharing Sambuca and processor I'm using now, and In any case, I can now put American, but hard to pronounce, the door of his room. Pea. listening to surfing music those refrigerators that talk back on my resume that I "went to you still have a shot) "For my birthday," he told that sounded like it came out of to you. MJ.T." I guess that I should also Of course, all this is true as me, "I'm getting a matching the old West Occasionally, Somewhere I picked up the mention that I went to Harvard. well. resistor." Where's Freud when someone with curly hair down to idea that hanging around with At the time, I was looking But we, the underprivileged you need him? his shins would wander in, ask smart people will make me smart for a bathroom.