The Northwest times. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1947-1955, 1955-01-22

with faculty names emblazoned
across the back in a most unbe-
coming and embarr3 ss.ng manner.
as if their owners were out collect
in advertisements Add to this:
white bucks preferably dirty, IN
the place of civilized footwear,
slightly SNUG air and you see the
pictm q range itself No less con-
ventiooal are the arts types With
their lazy blue blagers complete
with prcuG and superior crests.
smartly- pressed grey flannelS and
an air of studied casualneSS. But
d, least they seem less likely than
their uncultured brethren to cause
local tavernkeeperS to be impris-
caei for malfeasanoe of the exist
ing liquor laws What is lacking is
headwear of some sort but per
haps that too will come to be.
MONSTRC PIECES
The girls are less conventional
IN dress except for the condemn
ing presence of those mottled two
toned saddle shoes Why shapely
feet are encountered with such
mons rous pieces of leather l cam
not ii. IRE out They add little to
the feminine form divine, but in
stead render it into The semblance
of flat-footed hippopotami work
ing Tor baccalaureate degrees And
to think that in the years after
graduation as pillars OF social life
they will be kissing haughtily into
each others faces if two of them
commit the faux pas of wearing
the same frippery The significant
thing OF all this, OF course, IS that
the uniformity of dress has be-
come a social desirability among
the college neophytes. And it Is
illogical to suppose that non-con-
, formity of mind can be housed in
: the types who revel in conformity
of dress
About beer-guzzling. which is
: ballyhooed far and wide as the
5 backbone of college life is prac-
tically confined to football week
ends and then is INDUCED in only
2 by the eXtrovert or the confirmed
: drinkers who really form such a
/ small portion of the student body
e that the amount of publicity given
: to it is really remarkable if not
extravagant
BIT OF NONSENSE
Perhaps it is accountable for the
immoderate emotionalism rampant
I in football games where more i'm
portance than seems necessary is
1 given to four quarters filled with
insipid school songs and cheers
which are shouted with the in
credible righteousness of orang-
outangs looking for jungle mates
and Summarily accompanied will
the polyphony of little retching
noises And there is little validity
: in the sentiment of the engineer
ing schools song which maintains
that any engineering student Car
"demolish forty beers land implies
that they only can do it, 1t is a
supremely egotistic and challenge
: able bit of nonsense
Finally the spring and fall panty
: raid follies have ballooned far be.
l yond their intrinsic worth These
heroic featS in which the college
} StalWarts descend en- masse or
girls dormitories and depart wav-
ing trophies such as panties, bras
slips. are repeated with dulline
regularity in almost every campus
of the country. Now that they have
become traditional, they are Meth
er erotic nor sinful as some PEG,
/ pie believe but merely school-boy
ish. A garter might possibly be usec
S blotter, but I fail to see how
4 such panty-raids are useful if there
is no girl in the abducted garment
I might be wrong. of course an,
u there may be other features o
college life" which I have misset
e out. An outlay Of merely 81 300 car
: enable anyone to taste It's joys, bar
e ring unfortunate accidents. such "a
!" dying from alcoholism. cirrhosis o
). the liver. or falling off dormitor,
ladders.