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Thursday, September 17, 1998 - Page 12 FEATURES Tips for surviving life in Westminster It's hardly Freshmen take note: There are things to do in this town (this isn't ajokel) home-cooked food: Making the best of Glar meals BY Mi\TTHEW TUOMAS SwjJWriter If you are like most WMC students, you find Englar Dining Hall's food too good to enjoy just thrice weekdays (twice on week- ends). Perhaps it is a late-night serving of salisbury steak that you crave, perhaps an early afternoon snack of couscous. What- Baugher's homemade ice cream makes if the coolest place/or Gtar-weary first-year students to hang 011.1. ever flavor you desire, you probably wish you had a wayto bring it to your salivating 8Y JON BEARR to the two shopping villages. On our side day or night, nothing beats the 24-hour Wal- -rnouth. Comrtbunng wrtrer there is a cheap video rental store (you will Mart just within walking distance on Wood- We here at the Phoenix are one with your Freshmen) welcome to Western Mary- find that on campus, videos provide a cheap ward Road. For movies, your only bet is the suffering. In response to the student body's land College. The Phoenix has asked me, and plentiful source of amusement), and nearby Cranberry Mall, to which a shuttle is overwhelming demand, we now present a as a cynical Westminster native, to tell you some places to go for cheap eats: Frisco's available on the weekends. few suggestions for enjoying Glar all day what exactly there is to do in the town. Pub, the Forbidden City, and TCBY Yogurt I guess that, despite what other people long. Being a native, I know the first thing to are a few favorites. There is also Super Fresh, say, there is a lot of stuff to do in Westmin- First and foremost, creativity is of the utmost importance when faking food out of Being a native, I know the first thing to do is to find someone with a car and go to Glar. The filling of a backpack with chicken Baltimore or D.C. croquettes is not an uncommon technique. The recent popularity on the WMC campus of cargo shorts (following national trend.. do is to find someone with a car and go to Play It Again Sports and a Rite Aid. On the ster, and a lot you can get to on foot. The surprisingly) practically screams, "More ba- Baltimore or D.C. If nobody likes you, then other side are many stores such as County moral of the story: it all comes down to gels, cheese, and marinara sauce for I suggest that you learn to walk. There are Lanes Bowling, Co-op Supermarket, and making the most of what you've got. Or MicroFridge snacking fun." quite a few things to do in Westminster that Brothers' Pizza. something like that. But a car helps. If you Ice cream taken out at lunch on your way you can reach by foot, and some might even Down Main Street, there are numerous do get a car, remember this important tip: to a class is an example of an idea that will be considered mildly entertaining. little antique shops to spend your parents' the Burger King parking lot is for low riders seem good at the time but prove disastrous A short walk up Pennsylvania Avenue is money in, and a Goodwill to meet all of your and the Martin's parking lot is for jacked-up to your messenger bag. Think things through the airport complex. At the complex, you fashion needs, For fun at all hours of the trucks. before you microwave a chicken sandwich can take sight-seeing flights, watch planes in a foil wrapper. Finally, remember that only landing and departing, and perhaps even see one piece of fruit or one ice cream novelty is one being refueled. After that, you can stop CONFIDENTIAL to be taken out of the cafeteria per visit. into Bullock's Airport Inn, which is basically a less famous (or infamous) version of AIDS TESTING Baugher's. a picturesque eatery all of the city folks flock to because they think it is good country nome cooking. If planes don't suit your fancy, then you Fall Semester 1998 could walk down Old New Windsor Road toward the spring. It is a preuy nice dis- 12:00 - 2:00 tance to travel, and I believe that the rumors surrounding the water's toxicity have been EVERY OTHER TUESDAY greatly exaggerated. If you don't like planes or nature, then September 15 & 29 how about sports? You can often find a rather interesting game of basketball down October 13 & 27 at the city park behind the old post office. 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