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October 29, 1987/Western Maryland College/Page 5 60 Seconds on Campus Should professors shoulder the responsibility of enforcing Friday morning class attendance? If the professors We are all supposed The students must I believe that is the I think Friday at- enforced attendance to be young adults make their own student's responsibil- tendance should be for every day, not just and responsible for choices. We, as ity to decide whether treated like any other Friday, more people our own actions. If a young adults, must or not to go to class. absence. It shouldn't would have respect student chooses to learn to take respon- College is a place matter what day of for the teacher. There miss a class, it is his sibility on our own. where you make your the week it is. It is is no difference be- own decision. own decisions, not the student's respon- tween Fridayclasses have them made for sibility to go to class. and Monday classes. you. Rob Carter Tina Lambert Rich Hensor Karen Pill Tom Rehain _ Jonathan Slade Like a fine whiner, I get older with age I'm getting old. The signs are officially sanctioned adults who shopping around, I recently ended do with making me feel old. for a Master Charge, and get some all over the place. are starting to frown on my casual up with a policy offered by (guess Maybe it's all those large personalized license plates saying In fact, you've probably seen wardrobe. Last semester, r had an who?) Western Maryland numbers. "STUD-MUFF1N" and "SEX the one in the student union internship with a local cable College. Upon reading the fine But the single most important GOD:· which simply says, "Jon's getting company, and, upon completing print, though, I realized that it indicator that I'm' getting old is It's pretty scary if you think old." work there, was required to tum in only covers me if I'm suddenly the fact that.. .I'm ashamed to say about it, though. Most people But here I'm talking about the a daily journal and a five-page stampeded by a herd of rabid pack it...I'rn watching what leal. are convinced that they're making more subtle indications of age. paper to my college advisor. mules. Provided, of course, the Yeah, I've always kind of looked all these decisions as the years Like, for starters, the fact that When all this written material mules themselves aren't insured. at it before it went into my drag by-whether or not to dress ever since I celebrated my second was returned to me, I paged I also got my own telephone a mouth=primarily so I didn't stab well, what sort of health plan to annual twenty-first birthday, I've through it frantically, looking for while back. Okay, it's not just my lip-and as long as it wasn't use, should I risk AIDS and check stopped checking pay telephones, comments. No remarks about my my own because twelve other pewter, plastic. or untreated the coin return on the cigarette Coke machines, and birthdaycards writing style. No remarks about people in my dormitory use it. sewage, I choked it down. But dispenser? for money. At best, the first two my performance. The only But because my name is on the then one morning I woke up and Well, actually there's a bunch offer only a few coins-a type of comment in the entire stack of bill, I'm going to call it mine by found myself avoiding piddly of little molecules running your currency which has grown foreign stuff: "You should dress better." virtue of the fact that I'm the one things like caffeine, watery pasta, life. to me since the advent of tuition. I fail to sec the problem here. running the risk of a bad credit and predigested vegetable soups. Of course, the phone company And birthday cards? The most When I choose to put on rating. Once a month, the phone Does this sort of thing just has a hand in it too. money I ever reaped from one of underwear, it's usually clean. companies (we have two now) automatically happen when you What? You think I'm these saccharine beauties was a You also know you're getting send me an entire tree sliced up hit twenty-two or what? babbling? five dollar bill. Grandparents just "up there" when you have to take into little slips of paper. And I have this theory that it's all That only proves my first don't follow gas prices. out your own health insurance somewhere in this mess they hide in the genes, and that in a year or point. Four out of five dOCLOrs Another indication that I'm policy. After much worry and a figure labeled "amoumowed." I two my DNA will be telling me surveyed say the mind is the first getting old is coming from c.onc~rn.' 'l;ll}q thirty seconds of really don't know what this has to lO open a checking account, apply to go.