Birmingham Southern College - Southern Accent Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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After comparing mail with friends, the student may find himself in the hostile environment of the cafeteria. If he is so lucky as to make it to the front of the line before rigormortis sets in on his starvation-ridden body, the student is confronted with a variety of delicious foods (direct quote from the ARA Slater Cookbook). After making a difficult decision between corn fritters and bacon and cottage fried potatoes, he proceeds to eat his meal in the sociable company of friends who are also taking their lives in their own hands. Taking the tray to the racks is a new concept— not quite mastered by some who prefer, rather than being embarrassed by the sounds of shattered glass and applause, to let their trays take themselves 22

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r Running a close second to the snack bar is the post office. After dashing madly up the stairs, one fights his way to his box only to find it empty, or worse yet, inhabited by an envelope declaring that you are such a special customer of ours that you are therefore eligible for the lucky drawing etc. Of course, most of us never think to notice that the envelope is addressed to resident before heaving it in the already bulging waste container. 21

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' .. f Among the other aspects of daily social life at Birmingham-Southern are over-sleeping, cutting class (these two are sometimes confused), walking to and from class (struggling up Munger ' s many flights alone takes months of training), interdorm visitation, and campus blackouts (these two are also confused at rare moments). Performance of these daily rituals comprise the routine social life of an average ' Southern student. Anytime not devoted to these acts can be written off on one ' s income tax report as medical expenditures. After all, what is college without its various idiosyncrasies? A pain!