Bradley University - Anaga Yearbook (Peoria, IL)

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Another year slips quickly by, leaving, as it goes, only faint notes of music unrecorded. This harmony played daily in the STUDENT CENTER is a blend produced by souls seeking distraction-their instruments are feet, mouths, cups, saucers, balls, pins, cues, paper. An unknown conductor picks up his wand and the days begin with the scrape of doors and shuffle of feet. Low hums of voices combine with giggles and guifaws to produce the carol of the days. Upstairs gavels bang periodically in meeting rooms, while, across the hall in publication oiiices steady twangs of typewriter keys may be heard. Moreover, in still oth- er compartments, recorded music reigns-broken only by an announcer's voice repeating, This is WRBUF' The most well-known chorus, however, is chanted downstairs. There is a heavy thud-then rolling thunder-then a crash of pins. Here too may be heard the clatter of a cue ball connecting with multi-colored spheres while next door cups rattle against saucers and coffee is sipped slowly. Voices clamor, cards swish against tables, and cigarettes siz- zle quietly in ash trays. These familiar scrapes, shuf- iies, hums, bangs, twangs and thuds unite diurnally to form the Student Center Symphony.