Oberlin College - Hi-O-Hi Yearbook (Oberlin, OH)

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the Idsl ward in disgiistniti types. In the f ice of this, u ' liy do you iraiit to Iniiir i? He smiled. I must quote to ou irliat a count)ymau of mine once said. Three things, he pointed out. are real: God. human folly, and laughter. Since the first tiro are beyond our comprehension, we must do xehal we can with the third. They all laughed. Debbie bantered in a friendly manner. But I don ' t trust the laughter o yon Orientals. I mean your smiles, those mysteriously polite smiles which you Orientals can wear o)i your face even when you don ' t at all like the person you are smiling at. He -was highly amused. Yon must have been xeatching adventure features on .ill ill i s creation. Professor Paul Arnold stops to git ' e personal allentiori In Jince F.delniiin ' s painting. Pete Michaels continues irilh his xrork.

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Mitsit ill il htiiiilx. Jii SlifiusluiiiiLli iiiid AiiiiAilrlf lAoyil. almost everyone seemed to be iippioMimitnii ; i(i liiiill lounnd one standnrd. inid in the process the types xi ' ere nettlno lost. And -without types one woiihl hax ' e to jail back on wit and funny situations as the i nl sources of Jau ' hter. What are you thinkiw alxjuti ' Paul ashed. How the disappearance of hunio)ous types has made hiuoJiirr unire difficult. Who wants to Inugli? Debbie said. I dou ' l. I just ;j.ol a !)luehi)oh liack. Besides, I ' ve been talkini to tliat horril le sunh. Honer. Honestly, that fellow is 12

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TV. Adventure features luhicli claim to portray the East. Bui iu an case -wliat 7nakes you think that hypocrisy is the monopoly of— Hallo, there. souieoue slioiiled from behind. Thex (ill turned around. 1 1 wv s Rnoi ' i , llu- Ikd rible snob. Hallo. Paul and he said coinstantaneoiisly. Hullo. Ronri . Debbie .smiled. Going to tlie Snack Bur? Roger tisked. Yes. Debbie replied, still smiling. Care to join us? Later. I have to go buy a book first. See you all. On their way to the Snack Bar they dropped in at the library for a -while to pi( k up Paul and Debbie ' s books. At the Snack Bar, too, she was nowhere to be seen. So he sat down with Paul and Debbie. Lord, how bored I inn. Paul said as he tore his sugar bag leith a restrained sort of x ' iolence and emptied il into his coffee. Hoie Pin -waiting for C.oininence- mcnl Dux. the day I can comineni e life by saying good-bye to this lifeless loxen. He smiled. That sounds like a rather subjectwe interpretation of Com- mencement Day! No, seriously, Paul said, inen ' t you fed up -with this prude-ridden place? A place where there are regulatmns about the minimum amount a door may be open at open houses. I mean, academically -we are treated like Platos and socially like children. I don ' t know. lie laughed. ' I should have imagined that foi (hildren such regulations -would Inu ' e been unnecessary. To me they sound like regulations for adults endowed leith rather Irvely dispositions, .-iiid don ' t you think that in loiining regulations for lollege students the authorities luroe to soit of assume that the students ou d tend to be of siii h a disposition? Oil, you too are on that side, Paul stud. I lan only speak for myself. And J kinrw how idealistic I -was when I first came to Oberlin and hirw cynical I feel now. I -wonder if Oberlin is to blauic for that. (Wouldn ' t it also be possible that youi idealism -tcasn ' t I ' ery sound, that it -would hax ' e disappeared e-een if you had been at some other college, disappeared through inherent shorti ( mings of its oivn? I mean. . too. can speak only for myself. And I somehinv don ' t ilislike this place. What do you like about it, if I may put it in such bald terms? ll ' liat do I like about it? I -wonder . . . P-ve ne-ver tried to pin it down, but I suppose so many things, so many different things that go to make up the general atmosphere of the place: the friendliness— a great deal of it may be just politeness, but still . . . the opportunities to mix -with students from so many different countries and to listen to people like .Martin Luther King, the Indian .■Imbassa- tlor. C. Day Lewis, and the others -who came and lectured at Oberlin: the occa- sional parties, and the tiiiilne of a I ' oice saying hallo across the street, and the do-wntmi ' ii neon lights sliimmei ing in ii puddle of rain-water in ' Pappan Square; Professor Taylor waving Ins glasses and earnestly leaning finii ' iird on Ins cllnrws to emphasize a point, and the serious-looking students at seininins: Piofessor 14