Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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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

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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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And along with Batman came Trivia. Trivia is a game plaved hv two or more in which one plaver asks a question whose answer is a totally obscure, worthless bit of information, like, Who were Hopalong Cassidv ' s two sidekicks? ( Luckv and California, just so it won ' t keep you awake.) Tri ia had fonnerly been the exclusive prop- erty of professors making out Final Exams, but it caught on big with the students, to the point that one dorm had a Tri ia Bowl and a marathon game ran (off and on) for days in the Daily Student city room. When was the gargoyle set atop historic Max- well Hall? This is not a true Trivia question, be- cause the answer very allegorical, filled with deep meanings, and probably not too factual. Nevertheless . . . Let ' s create a gargoyle atop historic Maxwell Hall, the I.U. architect said one day. Justifying such an imaginative departure from the rest of the conservative campus design was something of a problem. But it was met beautifully. A dis- tinctive I.U. was carved in the beast ' s chest. I.U. has the only gargoyle in existence that is a letterman. This is Indiana and how it grew.