SUNY at Stony Brook - Specula Yearbook (Stony Brook, NY)

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6300 orscowvb lduri goun own pesonal Happening ., C The end of 'rhe year rapidly had come +o a close. l-low F 5, 5 T adda T filling il should be ushered our by one of Allan Kaprow's Happenings. Thai' game's called As Long as They're Having Fun' Take Them for Whaf They're Worfh. Bur we paid The price. Slanding on line af lhe business office. wailing +0 pay lhe price of '67-is one sour, lou'r inevirable way fo close rhe year. Maybe we should have played lnlrospecfion Then. Whar are we worlh?

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When I was a child, I spake as a child, I undersTood as a child, I ThoughT as a child: bu+ when I became a man, I puT away childish Things. -CorinThians, Xlll, II And so we are men, and women. and we seek To puT away childish Things, like The games people play. We puT away our Monopoly and Scrabble seTs, and we don'T go To Bingo parfies. Dolls and baseball baTs are given To The SalvaTion Army. Now we are aclulT, because games have been discarded. BuT are games Truly ever discarded? We mainTain ThaT They are noT. We mainTain Thar insTead of dolls, people are The obiecT of play. and insTead of baseball baTs, words are used To sTrike home. We have been cynical, buT There are always reasons Tor cynicism. There are Too many Things ThaT musT be planned. Too many problems To be solved. and in shorT. Too many games yeT To be played. The quesTion we puT To you now is. which are you. Player or Pawn? IT may be boTh depending on your game. You may like being in eiTher role, bu+ wheTher This is The case or noT you should know why you're There. We've asked you To play In+rospec+ion wiTh us several Times. IT may have sounded Tunny. buT iT wasn'T Truly meanT To be. For The TirsT Time. we are TreaTing a Yearbook as an examinaTion, raTher Than a simple recollecTion of Things ThaT have Taken place. IT a dusT covered volume of Specula is opened years from now. we wanT The reader To remember noT only The evenTs, buT The reasons behind Those evenTs. ThaT's been our game This year, and we have all played lnTrospecTion many Times, and will again.