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The rat is like a church; trying to find some sense in it all with the other passionate observers, you congregate, wondering if your mutual intensity will pull you through the futile times. But seeing the pulpit and the orthodoxy for what it is, you suddenly aren’t healed by the weekend communions anymore and you stop going. The rat is orthodox. The regular congregation, full of enthusiasm for wailing but opportunistic fifty dollar bands, and sloshing beer, is a damnable clique. The classes at GW aren’t freshman-through-senior, they’re the loners who stick together. The friends who overlap circles and accidentally know eachother. They’re the Medical, Law, Lit, and Art students. The center residents; billiard room gang, music lounge stowaways, 4th floor organizational maniacs, dance and drama troupes. They’re the fraternities, the professors and students able to talk with eachother, the dorm floors, the employed, the athletes, the idealistic, the tired, the radical, the gay, the paradoxical minority — the People’s Union, and the others. GW society doesn’t have a high-to-low class gradation; all are either kingpin or doormat, depending on the observer’s perceptions. But they all know eachother, thanks to the silent bond: stereotyping. Rice Hall, itself a plum in GW’s mediocre fifties architectural fairyland, right-angles more concrete variations on a theme down G Street. Though one can daydream a “campus” here, that view is sharply switched off with a glance toward the streets ribboning the surface of the university. Washington’s here. Thick monoxide. Loud, frenzied rushhour robots which seem to be the real freaks when the stoplights offer them escape, block by block, from D.C. The bars. The bars’ prices. The incomparable family spirit of a ripped concert audience. The 14th street scene providing rehearsed grim frivolity. Black people and white monuments for thought, believing love happens in spring parks, the beautiful oily river. The jet screeches; Georgetown puberty rites; distinctive bums; vehemently scorning or totally favoring the system, the food, the people, the roommate, the intolerable eccentric, the Hatchet, the parking, and, once in a while, the entire high speed movie of an experience. [Continued on p. 12] Sommer 11
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Yeah. But there are still a lot of questions to be asked. Did you find yourself in the cortex of your psychology text? Did enough people deepen whatever your faith is? Is GW a shoppers mart where one spends four years selecting an image? Were the non-comformists of our generation (1973) in pressed sport shirts and fraternities? Can you remember when you knew what communism was? Did the 61 percent president and his 61 percent wife ever see you messing around on the ellipse at 2 a.m. ? Oscar Wilde, class of ’77, wrote “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.” GW raised a lot of us some, some of us a lot. Will nostalgia sneak into our fashionably cynical hearts? How long will it be before GW takes on more in memories than it ever was in “reality”? Perhaps the Law of Nostalgia is that the past, with its difficulties, becomes more alluring as it recedes. ..because we survived. Tabor
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