University of Detroit - Tower Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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Crossroads. Where are you going from here? It’s a big question. And a tough one to decide. The answer may be a bit different each time the question is asked. Whatever the answer, you've got to be prepared. Don’t let yourself down. Plan your future now. At the University of Detroit. We can help you prepare for wherever you'll be going. You could qualify as a student at the University of Detroit. You could write our president, Fr. Malcolm Carron 4001 W. McNichols Road, Detroit, Michigan 48221 An equal opportunity educator.

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CONTENTS FOR APRIL, 1971 VOLUME XLI NO. 1 BEYOND THE BLUE HORIZON AND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE ..... fiction..........0+. EE EE Nay Gove va esas ccsseveceavcsa;o0ycxecenivavusssuavendeias eresstecesoisess Alison Sneider 7 illustration by Fred Peltier ALERIS ...... BUIERIOMN ces acovnescn ace cyaverdescoccsenncastades susdcantsenaredecsavevhes dates Eileen Hagerty 11 illustration by Robyn Jones and Fred Peltier WEBBING........ RE CHOKE Rarer Peete ire ee si ckntorers tudsndececvanvascwacesvees Veronica Sanitate 17 illustration by Ken Chronowski STAFF Editors: BOB ARMBRUSTER, DAVID PAULS Associate Editors: EDD MANGINO, ANN SPENTHOFF, KEVIN COUNIHAN Art: FRED PELTIER Photography: EDD MANGINO Production: DAVID PAULS, BOB ARMBRUSTER, EDD MANGINO, GORDIE CONNELLY Advertising: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT Subscription Services: FRED W. SHADRICK General Offices: TOWER Building, 2 Tower Court, Detroit, Michigan 48221. Return postage must accompany all manuscripts, drawings and photographs submitted if they are to be returned and no responsibility can be assumed for unsolicited materials. All rights in letters sent to TOWER will be treated as unconditionally assigned for publication and copyright purposes and as subject to TOWER’s unrestricted right to edit and to comment editorially. Contents copyright 1971 by the University of Detroit, all rights reserved. Nothing may be reprinted in whole or in part without written permission from the University of Detroit. Any similarity between the people and places in the fiction and semifiction in this magazine and any real people and places is purely coincidental. TOWER, 1971, vol. 41, no. 1. Published yearly by the University of Detroit, in national and or regional editions. TOWER building, 2 Tower Court, Detroit, Michigan 48221. Subscriptions: through enrollment at the University of Detroit, $1700.00 a year. Our Expanding Commitment to the World We believe the challenging times in which we live demand new dimensions in continuing education. We have gathered a distinguished fac- ulty from the academic, professional, and arts communities who teach eve- ning and day classes open to the public. We have assembled a broad range of courses that explore the problems and potential of society. Liberal arts courses are offered, including: Myth, Mythol- ogy, and Literature, Introduction to the Film: Form and Meaning, Mass Com- munications in Contemporary America, New Testament Greek II, The Living Theatre, Slavic Civilization, Later American Intellectual History, The Problem of Jesus: History and Myth. You can respond. Ask for a 252-page bulletin today. Call Area 313 342-1000 or mail this coupon to: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT School of Arts and Sciences 4001 W. McNichols Rd. Detroit, Michigan 48221 t t i] 1 i] i] ; Please send me a 1970-71 : 1 University of Detroit ’ : Bulletin. : i] i] i] t i] 4 i] H | | Name (Please Print) ; ' ! ' 1 Address Apt. Number ! : City State Zip Code : Lema w ewe ee eeeee see eeee ee eae t

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Beyond the Blue Horizon gad the Plessure Princiale by alison sneider Narrative description of demographic and intellectual classification schema prior to time to. Pe. walked in—I must be pre- cise — Eucalyptus walked from where she had been (what was the “outside” in the sense of weather or “naive climatic data’) to where | was, that is, my room in the boarding house. She carried a brown pa- per bag and was wearing, among other things, my jacket and my scarf. The bag contained a dozen bagels, of which pum- pernickel were the most stale, the plain the freshest the warmest. The only other Sicilian | ever knew took fried eggplant sandwiches on picnics — Euc. was simply a bagel-despoiler. | owed her 50c for my share of the bag, but | gave her a pack of cigarettes instead. | was a student hanger-on at the Uni- versity. Not motivated enough (and, | suspected, not competent enough) ever to be professional, much less academically distinguished. If | was to hierarch things on a scale of intellectual-moral values, | would put myself above the common man, and even the common student, but below anyone | really admired. | occasionally became disgusted with my lack of direc- tion, but tried not to think about it. To occupy time while hanging on, | needed to develop an occupation. Having gone through a long stretch of curb-sitting days, | moved indoors to begin reading Euc.’s dictionary through the winter. | had previously borrowed a four foot, lopsided- ly hexagonal piece of concrete from one of the University parking lots and placed it on the floor parallel to my bed for just that purpose. | was in the middle of the D’s when | came across Webster’s piece de resistance. Dissectio, dissector, disseize, dis- seizin, disseizor, dissemblance, dissemble, disseminate. DISSEMINATE: ‘to spread abroad.” Euc., still lazing her way through a pumpernickel, didn’t laugh. | looked up from my dictionary and said “You know, | really am Pope Alexander WAL “You really are a fart,” Euc. said. (At that time a fart was considered vulgar, and not raised to the high degree of musicianship it occupies in this age). | was a principle in the Taoist sense. | wasn’t hot or cold, rich or poor, cretinous or gifted, A or not A. | floated in the middle. Part of the rules was to establish some really distant goal to give some rationality to the present. Are you any different? Events connected with time tg... . | got a camera. It could “freeze dry” things. All of a sudden Things started to be vibrant. Everyday objects hypnotized me. Baked beans. Trash cans. Insides of mouths. | remember a sausage quite clear- ly. | recall feeling very impotent when | considered Things. Things were stronger than people. They were firm in being what they were, always consistent. They had a distinct unique essence or nature in a clas- sic philosophical sense. That sausage was really a sausage and was firmly a sausage; it never wavered, was never indecisive. It gloried in being a sausage. It would fight wars to make the world safe for sausages — it was convinced of its own importance. Everything had a formality about itself, like a stuffy English butler who does not wish to be disturbed or® distracted from being what he is. | was walking outside (in the sense previously described) in the snow, care- Continued on page 9.