Clark Atlanta University - Panther Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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Student Life I cadt Cope Without My Soaps

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l I: The Pain Nursing Services Work Small Miracles May 1983 ' THE YEAR IN REVIEW 21

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r The Soaps Did Clarkites have the day off today? Didn't these students have anything to do besides watch T.V.? Well, to answer this question, no Clarkltes didn't have the day off and this was a typical week day afternoon in Clarkls dormitories, These students were not just lounging around watching regular T.V.. they were trying to find out pertinent infor- mation. Information like will Silver's plot to take over Erica's top model posi- tion work? Or will Greg's mother become a junkie because of his engage- ment to Genie? These are typical ques- tions that swept Clark's campus daily. These questions evolved from what is known as 'The Soaps. The soaps had become a widespread epidemic over Clark's campus, so widespread that L3 they had not only captured the minds of women, but men as well. Most of the men on campus didn't readily admit that they watched the soaps, but some of them could tell whether Luke was paralyzed faster than the women could. It's amazing that students took a broader interest in someone's problems on T.V. than the problems that they were having with their Chemistry or English. ltls comical to see fellow col- lege students conversing on the cam- pus grounds. One might think that they were discussing world events, such as the economic crunch on society. The only response that these collegians most likely gave is that the reason we are in this situation is because Phoebe Tyler, The Buchanans and The Quarter- maine's have all of the money. Students were literally being brainwashed by these life-like dramatic productions. Walking past Pfeiffer Hall on a Friday at about 1:50 in the afternoon, one usually heard bedlam. This state of con- fusion is not a brawl amongst the girls. it was simply the event that happened in the last 5 minutes of All My Children. which kept everybody in suspense until Monday. Because of this, classes were no doubt slightly vacant on Monday in order that everybody satisfied their suspense. But the bottom line can be summed up in some iyrics from the once popular record l'General Hospitak They just can't cope without their soaps, By Shaun Whitehead May.1983 ' THE YEIRR IN REVIEW 23