Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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the pale blue tubes of their solid-state RCA ' s and Panason- ics as the wooden doors of the Senate Caucus Room open to the world. But the cast and script are different this year. We all watch Senator Sam become a folk hero. Howard Baker is so handsome. And the other day Dan Inouye got called a Jap right on T.V. Really exciting. The bad guys: Jeb Magruder, Howard Hunt, James Mc- Cord, John Erlichman, Patrick Gray, Robert Haldeman, John Mitchell . . the list is too long to fit in this book. Down on Kirkwood you sometimes see people with lapel butons say- ing Free the Watergate 400. But the big question is, is Richard Nixon involved? Or more often, will he get away with it? We solid-stater Watergaters will keep our eyes on the tube for most of the summer and try to figure that out.

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Welcome to New Bloomingyork Only the police, a woman and the rapist know who was the first, but it really doesn ' t matter. This summer the mad raper, or rapers, has given Bloomington another new ele- ment: terror. The nice treed meadow behind Woodburn, the enchanted forest by Bryan Hall, the quiet areas around Trees Center — all places that make the Bloomington campus one of the most beautiful in the country — are now the lurking places of the rapist. Women are wearing whistles on their wrists — a sad fad — but a shrill blast should scare any rapist enough that he ' ll pull up his pants and run. Escort services have even been started in the dormitories and apartment complexes to insure that women can enjoy the freedom to walk without fear. It ' s also been suggested that women start carrying little chainsaws with them all the time so they can meet the rapist on his own terms. That ' s about the only suggestion that looks like it would really work. People call this town Bloomingulch or even Blooming- stock, but really, if this kind of insanity and fear keeps up, we ' ll have to rename it New Bloomingyork.