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Submitted by stevenl on Fri, 11/25/2005 - 11:43am.
Around 1978 or 1979 a certain student (who today is a respected health care administrator) walked through the CAB and was turned off for the 1000th time by the super serious and suffocating monoculture the student social scene had settled into by that time. So, accompanied by his snapping fingers, he started singing in a loud voice:
» "I'm in with the in crowd, About 50 faces looked up to regard his performance, and 49 of those faces were looking blank. But he made me smile.
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I wonder how the social scene
Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Sat, 11/26/2005 - 12:10am.There are certainly stereotypes, definite "types" of people.
But I think many people are evolving past the superficiality of social cliques. We are all distinct individuals, each unique - like snowflakes. If we nurture our uniqueness and individuality, we can each bring a greater diversity and interest to the social system in general.
But sometimes a desire to be cool or popular, seems to override. I wish I could be more descriptive.
The TESC of the early 1970s h
Submitted by stevenl on Sat, 11/26/2005 - 9:19am.When I returned to TESC to work in the mid-1980s, one of the original faculty members told me, "Old Evergreen is very unpopular right now." Isn't there some saying about the Revolution eating its own children?
I suspect TESC's evolution fits some typical model of radical concepts being tested against the reality of human nature. Evergreen's story is unique and fascinating to me in this way. I'm glad I'm an alum, but I must admit it is the dark, comical, and eccentric side of the place that draws my interest. Must be the cartoonist in me.