University of Detroit - Tower Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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ed before you do any real moving in. “Wanta come Eileen?” ; “Hell no, damn, Chuck, you know | hate spiders. Ghosts are o.k. but spiders, ech.” Bring Mary and Ronnie and all the balloons in the balloon factory (Eileen’s line) and I'll take your picture with a butterfly net (stage directions.) Nothing doing. You can’t fool me but- terfly nets can’t take pictures get your camera quit fooling around allright lets go. So we got there and Chuck went first. This mysterious auraround the place. It’s raining, dark, my brain or is it this place. Wish | hadn’t smoked, so damn stoned what to say to a poltergeist rituals of exorcism; amazing spider webs we got caught in the damn butterfly net who is it that keeps catching us at in things. We awed, stood in the center of the once living room smoky with dust and musty smells and webs. We were ready for bats to come flying and worse things but nothing did, nothing but some old negligible furniture. Most had been re- moved. All but one big chair, the one in “which the dad of every family sits now drapped classically with a sheet as if some- one cared enough to want to preserve maybe the chair, or things as they were or maybe just the deserted and haunted imagery of the house. And we saw it there and a spider skittering to shelter under- neath and remembered there had been the old man. what old man from the past, Jesus, caught in his own imagery and web leave his ghost to himself and fight your very own you have plenty made to order. Create your own damn aura for this haunt- ed house, babes, din’t rely on past stereo- types to get you through not even stage directions. Get the hell away from sticky spider webs hey, lets grab a moth there being many and feed a spider, to appease the gods? Hell no said Eileen. Let the moths and spiders work out their own salvation. Chuck used to tease Eileen cause she couldn’t tell the difference between a moth and a butterfly. She really could but figured it didn’t matter — flies anykind are all right they enable the soul to flee the body after death. Flea? Yah? Where? No stupid. SPIDERS and GHOSTS. SPIDERS and GHOSTS and double trouble when you see the skeleton Continued on page 238. Free home delivery of the news. IRHG Newsletter All News. All The Time. Fights Truth Decay. Engineering News Ali News. All The Time. 21

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Continued from page 17. and 1000 in every graduating class and not given to emotionality, it not being in fashion that year, we decided it all late one evening when we had Felt suddenly instinctively intense the presence of a dark force in the far corner of the room. | won't say evil force though you can bet for sure that’s what we felt. never figured any ESP stuff would happen though psychic phenom was en- joying its every now and then comeback (without pun) that year but Eileen she said her father dead ten years would establish presence sometimes, | figure her dad did visit spiritually, at least if | were a spirit (hoping to be when | grow up old and die — whichever is first) certain as hell would visit Eileen first and on cue we turned to the corner simultaneously chill rippled terror we all shuddered the haunt stayed and it stayed. What to do? Confusing near panic we whispered as if whatever it was could hear us and as if, having the power to hear at all it wouldn’t be able to hear us if we whispered. We debated about making the sign of the cross and that shit, | mean just what is super- stition? Ghosts are really weird. You don’t know when they’re going to up and trap you in someone else’s past. Well, back to the real haunted house story with Eileen as lead acting according to her own direction. And with Eileen as lead and me narrating (anyon e may audi- tion) the story won't be finished. Like a Mark Twain yarn meandering in and out of the subject and forgetting to tell the punch line feeling like it ends in medias res, right? (eileen and chuck is the third haunted house story. He loved her so and she wasn’t ready, finaliy she was, and they were for about two months till things got all weird and uptight as if a ghost dis- approved of them right from Ibsen’s heart.) The haunted house, well, Boston always has its tales to tell and witches to hang maybe it was a wizard who lived at this house for so long alone and finally died, but no one would buy the property after. He should’ve been locked up in a home as all old worthless useless what’s the use give up solemn woe men and women. Well what is the use when nobody cares, still, he must have been a bitter Boo Radley without Redemption (there was a redemp- tion center down the street but people in Boston were still giving indulgences in- stead of stamps with purchase, and on Halloween too, so the center dried up and was replaced by a church front Theatre. Process.) The old place had finally been rented about five years before we saw it had been deserted for about twenty. A young couple moved in and started fixing it up soon to have children but they sold rather News For All Seasons. The Vigil All News. All The Time. 20 abruptly after two weeks and much effort (Protestant Ethic.) Rumors are roomered that poltergeists used to perform by steal- ing chickens from frying pans and messing up beds but rumors (both) are hushed so as not to decrease the value of that beat- up old shack (Real Estate Ethic) — hard to believe it has value maybe sentimental, but it’s rickity (so much rain with haunted houses) and spiders allover and webs spiderwebs and spinning loop loop — spinning spinning and a drop of rain ac- claims the sturdy wonder of this spun. story? yarn? Filagree. and now a fly (prey) is caught with arms legs flailing and atrocious rack- et; stops for one split second of inquiry: What the hell, how did | get into this mess? What mess, Chuck, what mess? This oa a thiss,. s+Eleen! eileen. (Martha my love don’t forget me when you find yourself in the thick of it help yourself to a bit of what's all around you silly girl — Martha, My Dear, Lennon, McCartney.) Concentrate flailing effort and drop, fly, from web. Drop the drama, fly and then what? (Who’s running this story anyway?) A fly would hardly be caught dead in that old place but another couple bought, and same old story and punchline they opted for out in the middle of things they was afeared of spiders? Nope. Ghosts. and another couple bought hook, sinker — and punchline and finally, finally, This freak ups and buys the old farm and Chuck knew him and says, yah, well, we'll just go and see about what is haunt- ay american plan accommodations for 4 legged guests only PET LODGE Not a kennel but a hotel for pets costing no more than a kennel. Individual spacious quarters Home diets followed 24 hour supervision Veterinarian on call PET LODGE 7th floor Shiple see Charlie Werney for details

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the past 50 years has helped make the world asmaller place. Now comes the hard part. World Game at the University of Detroit is working on that hardest part of the present: preparing for the future. The world has a lot to learn.