Viking_Yearbook_70

Crunching in the gutter. The leaves go thl!ir wuy and S<:J do you. The sun on your hair. your woof coffar scratching your neck makes you want to t:Jke a look .?t somom: al~r:. You '((: tired of too many mornings of coffee and a donut in the cafeter ia all by yourself. You star t looking for ~omcone, no·CJnr: in partiGular. a face you like maybe, or the hair on someone's arm. What you sr(ll!/1 or fr:r:l tr:/1~ you you 're in love. It's an old feeling like a story you read in your English book in the seventh gr:Jde. And there i~ ~omr:thing niGe about it. They like the eclairs you bought at the bakery where the farmer's market used to be. And they like the old dog you had since you were twelve. Pretty soon you're buying them a Christmas present. Nothing showy. Something that means a lot to you; an old book from a used book store. So you move in together so you can share your lives. Maybe you will. You hope so. You both get drunk one night and tell each other how upset you were about your parents sleeping together, or how they didn't sleep together. The next morning you realize you smoked too many cigarettes and you don't feel good. You have your first fight. You make up, and all day in classes you want to take your clothes off. Later you stop eating breakfast together. You start thinking about the paper you have to write and you feel guilty. One day you realize you're just not making it anymore. You take a long walk down the Park Blocks. Life goes on, brah. The construction/de– struction racket continues. The weather is not exceptional. Annual enrollment is up nine per cent, then frozen. Just 11,365 students and no more will be admitted to PSU come fall. Real education, claims Buckminister Full– er, will be something to which individuals will discipline themselves spontaneously un– der the stimulus of their own chromosomal pattern. Nobody really dropped out. Still, football has never had such a follow– ing. Approximately 13,814 fans wailed a~ PSU brokr: ~tridc an its sixth game and lost to Montana University, 49- 74. Five months earlier, Andrew J.I:Jynl!s, onr:-tr:rm ASPSU pte~iden t, had threattmed to abolish univer– sity financed football. Quickly J.I:Jynes' sup– port faded as tht! score~ climbed. Such were thfJ breaks. Five wins and five losses. Larry Seifert>, t>ports information offi– cer, said football muy yet pay its way. Judy wanted to pay her debts while she could still get a job. She dropped clas~e~ to work full-time. Eggs jumped to 73 cents a dozen. Unemployment was on the rise while industrial production and stock prices de– clined. The GNP recorded its smallest ad– vance at year's end. Yet few officials men– tioned a recession. And Richard Nixon, the misplaced optimist, forecasted a national budget in the black. There was Spiro Agnew. The spokesman of the self-styled silent majority charged that the news media was biased, that war critics were effete snobs, that desegregation and the legalization of pornography violated the rights of communities. His colleague on the right, the attorney general's wife, Martha Mitchell lent her clouded remarks to further charge the climate of dissension and polari– zation. But then marijuana gave Martha a headache and hives. The trial of eight alleged leaders of the demonstration at the Democratic Conven– tion in Chicago was echoed softly at PSU when five students were placed on academic probation for their participation in a Naval recruiting demonstration. Robert Low, uni– versity vice president and chief trouble shooter, carried on an extended if abstract dialogue with students that culminated final– ly in a cloud of smoke and silver bullets. Things being symbolic.