Miami Dade College North Campus - Falcon Yearbook (Miami, FL)

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SELF SUPPORT - MD,ICN'S HOPE FOR THE FUTURE? People today are under the false impression that a community college cannot create enough revenue to support itself. The standard fees, plus money gained from a few ideas outlined below, will prove this concept false. No one seems to realize it but Miami-Dade North, if properly handled, could become an agricultural hot-bed, just brimming with possibilities for mone- tary gain. Most recently a pair of vacationing ducks moved into the lake behind Scott Hall. lf someone could persuade them to stay, they could be the foundation of our first great enterprise: MDade Duckn. They already have a lake, plus all the potato chips, bread crumbs, and cigarette butts they can eat fgenerously provided by Dadeas Water-polluting stu- dent bodyj. Of course, the ducks will need larger. accommodations as they increase their numbers fthe little rascalsj. We recommend halting construction on the new theater arts complex and converting it into a duck house immediately. Another possibility is hornets. A pair of them have been busy as bees building a nest on the southwest corner of the library. By encouraging them to expand their construction, Dade could have still another product at its disposal: hornet honey. Yet, still other possibilities exist. We could convert the stadium into a cow pasture, change the Play Pen to the Pig Pen, and finally, plow under the parking lot and sow the seeds of the imported spaghetti plant - which should flourish in the South Florida sun. Of course, we'd have to provide the farmers who One of Dade's soclkzble ducks shares her bath with a winter visitor. tend to all this with some recreation. This could easily be accomplished by transforming J.F.K. Health Center into a square-dance barn. The final step would be to turn the information booth into a drive-up store where one could buy tickets to square dances, duck eggs, dead ducks, feather pillows, pork, pigskin, milk, beef, spaghetti, and, of course, hornet honey. Eventually, as operations expand, the students would have to leave to make room, Chow about bussing them to nearby abandoned high schools'?j but Miami Dade North would be self-supporting. Itls not really so difficult - is it? First I catch the duck then I get the recipe for orange sauce 99 5 . ur. 4.5 -J t

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DINNER WITH THE DUCKS 1'- I Lunch? We 'd be delighted! How about the Chez Vendome? Perhaps two of the most interesting individuals at Miami-Dade are the two ducks currently domiciled at our lake. During a skip period the other day I sat down by them and we dined together. I talked at them as we shared my bag of potato chips. Right away I discovered I didn't understand their foreign language, but I was able, through the use of my agile mind, to learn quite a bit about them. Although these delightful specimens were rather laconic in their replies, fthey limited their answers to Hquackn, honk , and a guttural sound of exhilara- tionj. I detected they were from Quebec by their French accents. This is very, very, extraordinary - usually tlgz French Canadians stay in the Broward 311631, . ,M Airway theylanswered my questions for a long period of time before they had to leave factually I ran out of potato chipsj but I was able to find out through my observations that they had had a rigorous journey here. fTheir tropical wardrobe was quite bedraggledj Since they have started to build a house, it appears they will be here for a while and that is great. If this college needs anything it's a friendly couple who always quack a friendly c'bonjour when they see you and are willing to dine with you in the finest brotherly tradition. Your lake is very nice but could you speak to someone about getting it heated?

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Q' Qgsgaame.wrsg,,f-L'....'i ar' -f-s..,...- Q , x I. You can tell a bag by her bag. Fashion An array of clash colors, contrasting styles and a strong taste for the spectacular have marked the fashions seen around campus during '68-'69. With the exceptions of the much worn Nehlus, bell-bottoms and the ever present mini, the irend in fashion has been connected with a sort of uanything goes attitude. Therefore, everything goes, and the idea has been to create, invent and Wear whatever grooves you. For the boys, this may mean striped pants, a pastel shirt, and a wild print scarf tied loosely around the neck. For the girls, it could very well mean the same thing. Fur vests, silk bell-bottoms, Indian print Ponchos and sunglasses a-la-Peter Fonda have been adopted by both sexes. Fashion Freedom... This new, freer attitude toward clothing.has had some strange results. For one thing, it is almost impossible today to shock, even with the most singularly shocking garb. No one rule presides over the individual's dressing habits. Comfort and freedom take precedence. This nonconformity, stereotyped as it may be, is often an unspoken form of defiance. Boys are growing some fantastic crops of both head and face hair. After all, if it was all right for Lincoln, Shakespeare, Van Gough and Ginsberg, why not them? Girls hair, too, is worn without concern for the polished, ceramic look of a fresh beauty parlor setting. Straight hair, long and short, pig-tails and curls merely blend into the crowd, with no thought of the incongruity of the two. The word incongruous has disappeared from the fashion world. What's showing?