SUNY Plattsburgh - Cardinal Yearbook (Plattsburgh, NY)

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College life is the grand make-believer the bitter reality the party that never ends the race that is always won. Is it Alice in Wonderland standing on her head talking about Pogo, about calculus, With Hail Alma Mater in the background and the feel of peanut butter sticky on her thumbs and a beer glass standing on her floor. It is a retreat which the world can never touch. A place of peace and silence where the moment of international crisis is the point after touchdown. The most unforgettable character is— yourself. The religion is faith The creed is hope The motto is next week we study . Never before not after are you so close to reality and yet so vitally withdrawn from it. jht that The loneliness comes creeping and overwhelms you. And there is no one and nothing to fill The racking, the void, And then you have a beer. And there is a joy and ecstacy, the love That spoils and pours down the avenues of your life, fill you with peace and love That no cathedral or poem can ever give. They simply are these four years And we never will them We sometimes appreciate them, But we spend the rest of our lives reliving them.