Carnegie Mellon University - Thistle Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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But sometimes we find a personalization . . . There is a faith in our minds, our moments . . . There is the professor who knows our names and stays after class to answer our questions; and the president who advocates beer-and-cheese . . . The faculty, the administration . . . They destroy and expose or. maybe. help us in our own destruction and exposition, stopping just to extract from us the one concept the one moment-of-genius to play with it and give it back a bit more refined . . . There is a knowing in us that they know us that they understand where our careless fun ends and our Unwind begins . . . Although we would never admit it. . . they've been there and back . . . 10

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Churning out a main-stage production, art for Hewlett, student teacher, and mechanical businessman: wind him up and watch him manage an industry . . . Because we are C1T students we find the world is with us not at all or so very little . . . 9

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They know that joy appears only in moments They don't encourage the joy in us— but make us fight so that we may have that one moment . . . There is a knowing in us That they are able, better than we to see our acts in full perspective to see that the freedoms we hold so defyingly dear are potentially destructive in their far-reaching repercussions” . . . And. so. sometimes, we have to be taken-in-hand and sometimes even chastised . . . and disciplined just a bit by parentis-in-locus who condition us and reassure themselves that we are Kept-in-Line . . .