University of Detroit - Tower Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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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.

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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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You may hear that we're not Catholic — But don’t let that fool you. University of Detroit We come from a long line of Catholic Institutions. As our bulletin explains, “The University of Detroit is one of a group of twenty-eight Jesuit colleges and universities in this country. From The Jesuit Order the University receives a permanent contribution of educational and religious service, and a rich heritage of four centuries of educational experience. “Because it is a Catholic university, it seeks to generate a clearly ecumenical, intellectual, moral, social, and liturgical witness to the life and teachings of Christ, and a climate that creates the desire among students of all creeds to lead lives centered in a high sense of values.” The University of Detroit