Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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The motorbike has been the biggest thing in the Japanese takeover of the U.S. economy since the transistor radio. But Mr. Honda-san indeed made it easier to get from here to there on cam- pus. A good thing, especially since here and there keep getting further and further apart every year. But a Honda by any other name ( Suzuki, Yamaha, Harley-Davidson ) would still be as noisy when started up just under your window at 7:25 in the morning. Nor are they much good for taking a girl out to the drive-in. 25

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24 Though neither nearly so well organized as Little 500 pedal pushing nor as practical as means of locomotion as that at right, skateboard- ing has filled an aching void in the college stu- dent ' s sense of foolhardy. Here on the Teter Quad sidewalk Nancy Butz and Don Seal dem- onstrate advanced techniciuc. The crowd in back is waiting to help them into the ambulance. This was a common occiirance on the Teter Quad sidewalk.

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Camp is a hard word to define, but basically something is camp when it is so veiT bad that it satirizes itself and thus becomes good. On campus, camp-followers included xarious pro- fessors, certain sorority and fraternity houses, the entire dormitory system, the I.U. Bison ( it ' s NOT a hviffalo ), ' arid The Daily Student. But the ultimate in camp came, ineyitably, from television. Night after Wednesday and Thursday night, the TV sets in every dorm, frat, and sorority spieled forth the adventures of that Dynamic Duo, Batman and Robin. The Caped Crusader and the Boy Wonder became, for a time, the center of all attention. Somebody threw a Batblast in the Union. Batman jokes ran Polaks out of the humorists ' top ten favorites. Bif. Sok. Pow. became part of the language, along with all sorts of terrible puns beginning Holy ( any- thing or other). Batman . . . 26