St Marys College California - Gael Yearbook (Moraga, CA)

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A UNIQUE INITIATION. FRESHMEN PAINT THE TOWN RED . , . AND BLUE. By Felicia Hernandez If there was one night when shampoo and showers were very much in demand it was SMC night - the night when fresh- men carried on the letter-painting tradi- tion atop the hill. On September 11, just after midnight, a slew of sopho- mores, juniors, and seniors banged on freshman dorm doors and dragged every freshman in sight up to the hill. They herded us up like cattle, explained Ni- cole Melton. And as many found out, scrambling up that hill at midnight with- out tripping- over a hole or, worse yet, stepping on a clump of cow dung is im- possible! The rule at the top was that nobody came back down without a gallon of blue or green oil-based paint on their body. It was wild! commented Jennifer Bow- man I was caked (with paint). If a freshman didn ' t look painted enough after sliding down the letters a few times, upperclassmen would remedy the situation by pouring buckets of paint directly on the frosh. Tracey McArthur added: People would walk up to you with globs of paint in their hands and smear your face; it was so much fun! And the fun seemed to last and last. There just wasn ' t enough turpentine and nail polish remover to go around. The paint remained in hair and on skin for days. Permanent memories of SMC night ' 86 can be found on freshman t- shirts, sweats, shoes, and shower cur- tains. Despite the messiness, most freshmen were glad they went. The event was fun and it provided an excellent opportunity for SMC ' s newest students to mingle with each other. Marguerite Michael re- marked, I finally felt initiated into Saint Mary ' s College.

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. THATS WHAT FRIENDS FRIENDSHIP By Lorena Bathey The other night as I sat in my suitemate ' s broken down car in the middle of downtown Oai land, I thought about what friendship really was. It wasn ' t the fact that I spent two hours sitting on the side of the road waiting for the AAA truck to come. It was the fun that we had while we sat there. I realized that this was one of those experiences that someday I would remem- ber and laugh about. One of those times that I heard my friends who had already graduated talk about. This was a memory. Part of the college experience is to establish these memories so that some day one can look back and say, Gosh I remember the time ... ' . College can mean many things to many different people but to everyone it is a time to establish friendships that will hopefully last a lifetime. Special songs, places and experiences will for- ever bond one to another human being. And when we graduate and leave the carefreeness of -£ tii! t i BEER y