Sacramento City College - Pioneer Yearbook (Sacramento, CA)

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VIOLATORS of the Don’t Walk on the Grass” edict are caught in the act by the roving cameraman. REGISTRATION TRAUMA will be eased in the fall in a change to automation. A SAFARI to the hinterland of Mexico will include two faculty members and a party of intrepid students this summer. r w i i C ' i i I ) JUDO — Officers, champion and a girl.

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Verna Hits Campus A Seasonal Malady ANNUALLY — about the third month of the year — an epidemic of an extremely common disease, Cypridelirium verna, strikes the City College campus. Rarely fatal, this malady causes such ad¬ verse effects upon the hapless sufferer that he may well wish he were dead. The first sign is a tingling sensation, generally accompanied by breathlessness or a suffocating feeling. The face may become faintly flushed, and the eyes may bulge slightly, always in the presence of a certain member of the opposite sex. In the secondary stages, the severity of the attacks increases. Marked trembling is in evidence, along with aphasia and ataxia. If the victim is at all capable of speech, he invariably incurs a complication known as Stomatopoda. He may also completely lose his appetite. During the final stages of Cypridelirium verna, the sufferer becomes manic-depressive in nature. He begins to cut classes in order to see the cause of his malady. A kind word from the patho¬ gen sends him into fits of ecstasy; if he receives a brush-off, the accompanying period of acute mental depression may last for days. Now, if he has in turn infected the pathogen, the afflicted person enjoys the desirable after-effects of the disease until they completely wear off . . . which could take any amount of time. The outward sign of such an outcome is heterosexual pairing . . . and occasional disappearance of the pair. If for some reason no reciprocal reaction takes place, the victim is doomed to suffer until he is infected by a new “germ.” An overwhelming majority of the stricken recover, and the cure is the most pleasant part. Spring brings an epidemic of this disease to City College, turning the campus into a health resort, as one may easily see by simply gazing around the library, the cafeteria, or the quad. No one is completely immune, and no ef¬ fective vaccine has been developed. If you catch Cypridelirium verna, good luck and have fun! — Ann Russell. mmmmmmmmmmi ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ann Russell, a second semester coed, is an “A” student in biol¬ ogy and a “B” student in Eng¬ lish—which qualifies her to write on the subject of this article. In addition, she is a keen observer of young human nature on the campus. She is sympathetic to the Republican Party. mmmmmmmimm