Last OT, Part 2

[SC in DC]

OK I lied. I'm going out with a bang. This edition has enough in it for me to make it a final 3 parter. I know I probably bored the hell out of some of you, but as I said in the first one, just skip it if you don't like. I know for me and a few of my fellow "geezers" it brought back some fond memories of the "back in the day".

In this part I'll stick to miscellaneous and I'll end #3 with more bball.

Excavation began two weeks ago on the new student union. A $1.25 million government loan plus $700,000 to be raised from other sources will fund the building. (Imagine if something that big was built today! (It was an architectural nightmare, but was sure an upgrade over the old dining hall and getting pelted by the Elet hall dormies as we wore our ROTC uniforms to lunch! It was finally torn down by a citation from the "ugly police")

Seniors fund raising for senior gift --A Flagpole??? By a two to one vote over 4 other suggestions! (A campus Pet Rock maybe?)

Editorials--Seems serious students who actually wanted to study would go to the library for research. BUT--"Not only were more books stolen during the semester than in previous years,(honest little Catholics weren't we?) but periodicals were being damaged more frequently...who chose to take articles with them rather then spend the time to copy them. .....Although the apparent worthiness of the scissors-wielding students' purposes did not modify the objective dishonesty of their acts, it did serve to point out an obvious deficiency: (WAIT FOR IT!)......the Xavier library is the only one of its size in the city that did not operate a copying service ...." (So guys what do you think the answer was to this dilemma) " Recognizing the need, Chief Librarian Albert Worst.....purchased a device himself and donated it to the university" (From Worst to Best--sorry that was just so obvious I couldn't pass it up!)

Letters to the editor---From a PO'ed Mountie. "I'm sick and tired hearing how stupid girls from the Mount are.......Everybody thinks that we don't do intellectual things, but I know we all like art and music and stuff like that out there. ....(boys at Xavier) think our mixers are no good , but we do our best to please the boys. (She follows with quotes from Kant, D.H.Lawrence, Henry Miller, Emile Zola, Balzac, Flaubert, and Machiavelli. (His quote was 'Electricity is the result of decaying owl pellets.' REALLY!) Ended with "Really the Mount is a wonderful place to go to school because you learn about home economics, music, history and math, and other subjects too. I hope that the boys at Xavier will come to our mixers because they are really fun and you can meet different girls." ( There's really nothing I can add to this to make it funnier!)

On the "Ahead of his time" front, a letter to the editor to solve the problem of smoking. "But out of the back alleys of our nation there charges a solution. Yes, the long awaited legislation (sic?) of marijuana. Marijuana will give us better Americans!....." (Wonder where this guy is now?)

Another letter to the editor: Kudos Counter Playboy Hefner: "Your interpretive analysis of the playboy 'philosophy' is a particularly outstanding example of the high caliber journalism consistently displayed in the News. Kudos to your staff for its singularly professional approach to all too often thankless endeavors...a concept Mr Hefner understand."and his followers cannot. !Any followers at X...Hmmm)

"Investors wait for ship to come in." The Investment club (which I later became the prez of) bought 3 shares of Addressograph-Multigraph. (See how tech savvy we were and it went bankrupt in 1982!)

Noon Mass Added. A noon lenten Mass was added to the daily schedule. Fr Oppenheim said how long "depends on student use of this opportunity" (odds on, over under 2 weeks?)

ALSO, a biggie. "Trouble Brewing?" (Headline writer was sharp) Campus authorities this week were investigating the appearance on university bulletin boards of posters promoting a "drink N drown' affair scheduled for.....Participation by Xavier students in such functions or their promotion on campus was forbidden by Rev Patrick H Ratterman, S.J., dean of men, in a directive issued October 18, 1963." (I must have missed that , cuz I know I went to one and I'm pretty sure it was two, but I may have drowned at one so I'm not certain. Anyway, they were total debauchery at its Xtreme. Truly an end of an era at X.)

Lots more but I think I'll end with some of the sponsors: The Valley Theatre, featuring Dr Strangelove (4 ads); of course Dana Gardens; (really small ad) Brenner's Pharmacy; Zino's; Shillito's; Dick Gregory in Concert at Music Hall; The Shirt Laundry; and New England Hat Manufacturing Company!

That's almost all folks!