Agnes Scott College - Silhouette Yearbook (Decatur, GA)

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GDE TO 4 PQPGGRN PQPPER (With apologies to John Keats) Thou unacclaimed bride of golden corn, Thou foster child of a junk food generation Social historians either praise or mourn A custom so beloved by our nation. What electrical legend haunts about thy shape Of Scientists or after-work inventors Who strove thy noble purpose to ordain; Who sought more efficient production of thy fuel. What mad pursuit? What struggle to create? Yet when they their strivings won, what ecstasyl Heard melodies are sweet, but thy small pops Are sweeter therefore, ye popper, pop on; Not only to mine ear, but even more. Play to the stomach ditties that rumble low. Fair popper, upon the floor, thou canst not leave Thy song, no radio or record can thee replace. Bold popper, never, sadly, canst thou taste Though popping brings thee close, yet do not grieve Thy value is unmeasured) thy purpose clear: Forever shalt thou pop, and corn be there. And, happy melodist, unwearied Forever popping corn forever sweet; More tasty corn! More snow-white, crunchy corn! Forever warm and still to be enjoyed Forever salty, crisp, forever good. Who are these coming to the popping corn? To what bright room, O mysterious priest Leadst thou these girls sniffing at the air. All in warm sweats and pajamas dressed? What other rooms by stairwell or phone ' s ring Or bathroom ' s constant running water noise Are emptied of their folk this chilly eve? And, sprawling dorm, thy halls forevermore Shall silent be, and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate — mouths being filled with lucious corn, O rounded shape! Dome lid and shallow pan! With slender cord attached to thy side. With hard, raised plastic thy cover spells thy name. With chrome thy sturdy base thy workings hide. Thou cheery form: thou priceless study guide When old age shall college memories fade Thou shalt remain amidst our other lives And with thee to, a shadow of the friends Then made and cherished still; with thee And them we learned all we ' d ever need to know. a

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College. The library ranked in both extremes as the best and worst place to study. As one junior put it: The best place to study is the library when it ' s not hot. The worst place to study is the library when it ' s hot. Is this a hint? As for the best and worst times to study, answers ranged from between 5.00 pm to 5:00 am. Most assuredly though, the best times to study are when your mind is awake and before the test. The worst times to study are during class, after the test, or durng Happy hour. How do you stay awake to study? For many Scotties this was an easy one. A junior sums it up with the simple statement, I don ' t. Other alterna- tives include what one freshman called massive caffeine (In other words — coffee. Coke, tea, and No-Doz). One sure fire way to stay awake during studying is obvious, one Scottie point- ed out: Get lots of sleep. The final inquiries of the Silhouette Questionaire pointed towards some problems and pet peeves Agnes Scott students have when they study. Over- whelmingly, response to this was inter- ruptions, including loud stereos, ob- noxious laughter, lingering visitors, people chewing gum in the library, pro- crastination, and loud librarians. For one junior, getting started is a pet peeve. In general, studying itself Studying is a refined technique of losing sleep, hair, sanity, and gaining weight. — Senior seems to be the pet peeve of most Agnes Scott students. But, like the food at Letitia Pate, you ' ve got to live with it. Do Scotties put up with loud dorms, red eyes, and numb brains merely for the sake of learning? Sometimes it ' s all in an effort to feel better about them- selves when they ' re not studying — in other words enjoying themselves. Ac- cording to one freshman, The ant- onym of studying is ' living it up ' . Need we say more?

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I Thinh It ' s Out To Get fTlE A. THERE ' S JUST NOTHING LIKE GOOD HOT TOAST B. THIS IS OUR LATEST MODEL — IT COPYS AND COALATES WHILE-U-WAIT. Women Versus Machine imagine a typical day at good oie Agnes: You ' re all out of clean underwear, you ' re late getting ready for a date, and you ' re down to your last twenty-five cents. The washing machine either a) Steals your quarter b) Gets tired and breaks right before the rinse cycle. If some of us do accomplish getting our laundry done, we are only to be thwarted in the dining hall or at the Xerox machine. Having managed to scrape most of the burnt crumbs from the toast, or to wipe about 750 of the lOCX) islands from our sleeve, we stroll liesurely to the library to copy some notes, only to discover that a) The Xerox machine is jammed, broken, or in the process of repair b) Out of paper Having been thoroughly frustrated, we decide to get a Coke to calm our nerves. Obligingly the Coke ma- chine a) is out of Coke b) is hot-tempered and decides to warm our drink up for us c) needs a small loan Will it never end? we ask ourselves in frustration. As we slide our modern and convenient key-cards through the lock on our dorm doors for the seventh time without result, the future does indeed appear bleak. Perhaps a nice cup of tea would help our depres- sion. Finally in the dorm, it will only take a minute to boil a hot pot of water. Well, that was easily enough done, but we are either a) delayed in the lobby to watch the last few minutes of The Guiding Light b) stuck in an elevator that can ' t make up its mind whether business is looking up or down In any case, we get back to our trusty hot pot just in time to keep it from exploding. About to explode ourselves, we decide the best thing to do would be to simply crawl into bed and take a nap. Now where ' s that pillow? ... NOW I KNOW THAT SOCK IS IN HERE SOME- WHERE ... HAVE YOU EVER BEEN REALLY WRAPPED UP IN A PAPER?