Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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n i .- n --■■ Tff-( ' , fj - III ITIfiB I . if. ■ 01 i ■ ' SI ' 1,, .. r J EUa BUM K C :;t£ 1 y P ii 1 -fc» but the stage is not where our real entertainers perform, in the wings are the tests for survival of the person that one thinks one really is; that others should know, but never do. you are thrown together with a girl you met at a kegger, last semester ' s prof, the headlined athlete, a couple vague faces, an iranian student, and you are told to survive, and after a sudden water fight, the bitter campaign, or day at the snake, you have survived once more, those who fought it out with you are now your best friends, it was a bigger cast than you thought, this is just one act of a really bigger show.

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tKen one day another answer comes to us. maybe it is from another voice; the brawling words, a blue, soft rhythm. we listen to these words of a soft spoken man telling us we can love as a majority of one. words of a pounding man tell us we must hate a minority of millions, the songs mix these, and the beat is our soul ' s teletype, what have we come up with? an evening to tap our foot to, clap our hands for, and drive deep to us our fear that we really can dp things the words predicted. ? ■ HHtf

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THEY LOST AND WON ON THE SAME BATTLEFIELDS WE NOW TRY. THEY LOOKED BLANKLY AT THE QUESTIONS WE GUESS AT AND MISS AGAIN. THEY TRIED ALL THE WAYS TO GET OUT; WITH MORE THAN THEY BROUGHT IN. WE WERE BORN OUT OF THEM. WE WERE BORN OUT OF THE PAST. AND BECAUSE OF WHAT WE CAN, OR MUST DO WITH WHAT ' S LEFT TO US, THAT PAST HAD TO BE MORE THAN PEOPLE AROUND TO ACCIDENTALLY START TRADITIONS. THEY HAD TO BE PEOPLE WHO REALIZED THEY WERE PASSING ON MORE THAN OLD PICTURES, ANEC- DOTES, RIPPED TEXTBOOKS AND WORN GRASS. MORE THAN THEY HAD AC- COUNTED FOR AND WE CAN HANDLE IN OUR OWN LIVES. WE IN TIME, MUST ALSO PASS IT ON. 24