University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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PROrESSORS E. W. SHARP, Journalism LEONARD BLUMENTHAL, Mathematics W. W. CARPENTER, Education Pace 19

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MISSOURI ' S R. L. SCORAH, W. R. ELLIOTT, and J. C. McANULTY in the Mechanical Engineering labora- tories. C. E. MARSHALL, Soils D. J. PORTER, Chemical Engineering FREDERICK SHANE, Art Page IS

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BICENTENNIAL SCENE (Author ' s note: The above vision of the University of Mis- souri during its bicentennial came to me during a yogi session at the Shack. My thirty-seven companions and I were sitting in the large back booth with our hands on the table, and the rest of us under it, when a blinding flash flashed and a reverberating rumble rumbled. And this I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream:) The Great War of 1939-1955 drained off the nation ' s able- bodied men, leaving a male population which was frail and moronic. Women gained the upper hand. And so, in 2039 it ' s a woman ' s world. Moving clockwise (unless your clock stopped, or runs back- wards, which would be damn confusing) we see (1) a thoughtful student reading his new Savitar, which, having grown bigger and better every year, now measures 10 feet by 6 feet by 4 feet. Next (2) we see, protected by a barbed-wire fence, a blade of grass which managed to push up through the Red Campus. A century after the great student labor crusade, an employer (3) protests against unfair conditions imposed upon him by his student waiters. For a St. Pat ' s Week campus stunt (4) the Engineers have built a rocket ship which at eight 45-minute intervals carries snakes back to Ireland. The Columns have been replaced by six Memorial Towers (5) all of which are necessary to accommodate the names of the students who perished in World War II. Then we see (6) one of the numerous benches placed about the campus for students ' convenience on warm, springy nights. A few of the bolder males (7) campaign for the right to vote, while a happy student (8) ecstatically devours every word in his favorite campus weekly, the Missouri Student. A group of students (9) examines the Centennial Three-Legged Stool, built in 1941 from campus contributions. A large bench had been planned but financial difficulties forced the students to settle for something slightly smaller. The man at right, in- cidentally, is a candidate for M Women ' s Queen. Next (10) we see a BWOC leading a demonstration against co-education with the slogan: The man ' s place is in the home! A lazy student who doesn ' t give a damn about anything (11) lolls on the ground merely to fill the space between items (9) and (12). And finally, we observe a nauseated goat (12) turning in disgust from a copy of Showme, which now appears semi-annually as a supplement of the Missouri Student. Murray Amper Page 20