University of Oregon - Oregana Yearbook (Eugene, OR)

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One couple, in December, found some quiet amusement in downtown Eugene iwhich is about the only kind you can findt. They strolled through Christmas Village, hitched a free ride on a toy train, window shopped and, iust us they used to, visited Santa iwhom, they reported, wasn't particularly iolly, or as good look- ing as a Santa should bet. Hoping to put his best foot forward and more important trying to win whatever, it any, affection there might be, they slip oft to Pietro's for a gigantic pizza. With lots of coke and much talk the pizza finally gives way to the galloping clock. With still enough time to catch a glimpse of the city ttown?t at night from Skinner's Butte, the couple departs. Not what you would probably like to hear usually goes on in front of the city lights. Nor does it have to. The view is peaceful and whatever oftection there might he remains in each other's questioning mind.

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THE FRESHMAN COKE DATE: AS American as apple pie COPY BY BILL LOVELL An old friend of mine, Bill Shakespeare, once wrote, in the course of one of his amusing little plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream to be exact, that: The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact. lV,i,7-8l Having at various times in my young career considered myself to be all three, I now shall attempt to analyze, naturally in a warm, witty, and urbane manner, that vast feudal hangover known as freshman dating. l'You wonder how these things begin . . . well, this begins with a glen. It begins with a season, which for want of a better word we might as well call September. So begins a speech from The Fantasticks, c: little gem which has made c: fortune for Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt. Sub- stitute che S.U. fishbowl for Ho glen in El Gollo's speech and the drawbridge creeks open. For at the University, the fishbowl is where it all begins, with a high ritual known as the coke date. 26