Rochester Institute of Technology - Techmila / Ramikin Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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MoJmes Happy to Stay ai RIT The British and the Argentines keep needlessly killing each other's men Reagan promises the economy will improve, but nobody knows when And martial law in Poland won’t allow those people to be free But as a student Good friends are near The work is clean The frig has beer I'm on my own My girl is here Happy to stay at RIT Brutal death is commonplace in a country called El Salvador Nuclear weapons are the world's greatest fear, yet they still build more Deadly toxic waste dumps cause their neighboring residents to flee But as a student If I want I can relax Just lounging around my apartment With loud music and six-packs Playing backgammon or reading a book Wearing Izod shirts or Levi slacks Happy to stay at RIT Utter chaos is presently found In Khomeini’s Iran Some food additives are questionable but our government won't implement a ban The world in which we live is growing more and more deadly But as a student I can handle the academic pressure Studying and taking tests And find some time for leisure In between school work You can bet for sure Happy to stay at RIT 12 I better not flunk out. Gary Raymond

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I scream and scream, long and (I think) loud, trying to shake the very roots of this so very silent forest. I do not know if it echoes. I am deaf. I cannot hear the leaves rustle beneath my feet. I cannot tell the velocity of a creek by sound. I can only look and imagine. I’m not doing very well. Every sound I attempt to dream up becomes a nightmare and quickly fades away. Like all my friends did when I entered the world of the non- hearing. They slowly disappeared. My mother said that, if they can’t accept you now, they were never good friends in the first place. Thanks, Mom. I guess I never had any good friends then. Maybe I. too, can fade away. Alan W.: Willett