University of Notre Dame - Dome Yearbook (Notre Dame, IN)

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The game board of a college dormitory - The checkered tablecloth at which a meal is shared. Expectations lined and counted, Face to face. Remember when you first saw him? Friend ... or foe? Preliminary anticipation, tension. It ' s your first move. Give and take - turns of movement, The intermingling of black and white Across the gap. Community, coherence, Together, friendship, A sense of unity. Syllables resound in homilies, seminars, editorials. Long hallways of look-alike doors, Doors which must be opened to reveal the true variety. We must struggle to retain ourselves. The game board of a college dormitory. Closer and closer still. A ritual of strategy and luck? A genuine commingling? A battle of wits for recognition, dominance, survival? But there are no winners, no losers, Or are there? Lurking Behind the ancient baseboards. Who goes there? Self-assertion among the crowd, Elevation above the baseness of a manipulated pawn, yes to that part of you which is yours a one- This is the challenge of the game. This is the sweet victory.