Douglass College - Quair Yearbook (New Brunswick, NJ)

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mira! mira! English Major Coordinated Villager Outfit Cutthroat Debbie Douglass Senior .laded Neurotic Cynic Scared Center Sitter Engaged Oueens Theatre Dope Fiend Sex Pervert Dirty Hippie Loudmouth Kirkpatrick Choir Straight Square In-Group Only Naive Music Major Caellian Crusader Politieo With-lt Man-Woman Gutsy Coffee-Drinker Prornetlwruz Out-of-lt Scholar Erudite Bore 40-page Term Papers Housechairman Busy Little Bee Friendly, Courteous, Kind Laten Whip-Cracker Put them all together and they spell Mother , What do you do with an image like that? How do you change it, why does it exist in the first place? Notice how the list about you is wrong: if you're An English Major, that list seems only partially true, or all false. If you're Not An English Major, that list seems so True as to be Secretly Satiric. People do lists for countries, too. lt' you're Not Italian, does this ring a bell, greasy, pizza, singing opera, sentimental, fat, Catholic, dark

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hair, swarthy complexion, big family? If yoQu're Not German, does this sound appropriate, mechanical, precise, militant, neurotic, sterile, blue-eyed blonde, Sadistic, conceited, intolerant? Sure, why not? Images are Fun to play with, and Easy to fall prey to. My God, that's the whole philosophy behind Madison Ave- nue. Who doesnlt seek to emulate the Virginia Slim Breck Girl With Noxzema Skin? In the Newark Riots, thousands of Ghetto People swarmed into what? Groceries, Hardware Stores? No, kids, Drug Stores and Beauty Parlors. To take what? Skin bleach and Blonde wigs. Times have changed since then, but the Image has simply shifted to something a bit less degrading. We better watch it, or Breakstone Yogurt really will be The Shape of Things to Come. What about the kids who are trying to be Honest? What about the ones who are working and demonstrating and talking and doing for That Day when a Black boy and a White girl can Be Together without White disapproval and Black ostracism?. Now that's nice and fresh. Well, Rethink Your lmugcf, Chiquim! All those Aware Kids who want the wonderful world of color kaleidoscope had better start seeing the forest for the trees. The Hang-up is not Color, it's Image. Those who wouldn't wince at a Black-White relationship are right out front staring at a Fat-Thin relationship, or a Short-Tall fprovided it's the girl who's tallj. Don't you really think of a Kirkpatrick Choir-Queens Theatre couple as a Mixed Marriage? When the fight for Civil Rights is over, people will still giggle about who wears the pants in a marriage of New York City girl-Kansas City boy. It will still be per- verse for a senior girl to be in love with a sophomore boy. What you're bucking is not your parents' anti-Racism, but a Basic Universal Tribal Trend: wcfre o.k. and our family does it right, Cof course we umlcfrsrand if we're at someone else's house, and they squeeze the toothpaste tube in the middlej. -Elissa Pane