Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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Prologue v Prologue Waiting in the admissions office to meet a college dean, I couldn’t stop feeling like a high school kid. It was my visit to Muhlenberg in the spring, senior year. I remember my first long stare at the glistening library dome and the even longer stare at the glazing white C.A. They let me sit in on a class; I think it was freshman history. There were no desks, just chairs with arms on them. No clock either. My high school classes lasted 40 minutes. This one was an hour and a half, and the guy used the map an awful lot. Where’s Latvia? You’re kidding me. Is this The College Life? Of course not. Meeting two roommates and a green room at orien- tation changed my mind. Do college students really square dance? We hav

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IV Ciarla MUHLENBERG COLLEGE From a collection of photographs by Davor Photo Incorporated.

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VI Ciarla football team. That’s good. But no pets, right? Right. I never saw so many Podiums and Postulates in one week of high school. I think I’ll go to the library tonight. Hey, I went to the libes last night. Did you say my throat? The registrar’s office on First Floor Ettinger. Thanks. Mr. Dedekind, this course they call ‘birds’ isn’t for me. Did you know the lab was at 7 o’clock in the morning? It didn’t say that in the catalogue. Someone told me that Probability and Statistics is a good course . . . Football games are like frat parties in the afternoon. There are some pretty Good Sports here. Too bad soccer and field hockey don’t get the same support. The basketball team plays in the Christmas tournament this year. Good luck, guys. I’ll be home for the holidays. The longer I’m here, the more I realize that the college life goes far Beyond the Books. Our choir sounded magnificent at the Candlelight Service. For weeks my roommate went to “Anything Goes” practice every night. The intramural teams have games twice a week and the campus is overrun with student council campaign posters. When do they all study? I don’t know if I came to Muhlenberg expecting it to be perfect, but These Times seem to be troubled. We almost had a unionized college faculty, which means higher tuitions. We’ll have higher tuitions no matter what. The honor code was too good to be true, and Connie Kunda’s back. There are some very un-traditional issues stirring at the heart of this traditional college. It reminds me of “Victor’s Lament” trespassing on General Pete’s lawn. If I wrote down all the things that went on under the old general’s nose this year, it would make an interesting book. Imagine, “An Informal History Of Muhlenberg College, 1978-79” . . .