University of Maine - Prism Yearbook (Orono, ME)

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Students began to think, well, what's a shot? It couldn't hurt! So the state came and set up shop in the gym. Lines of students and university people came to participate. The system was quick and efficient (reminiscent of the branding of cows): a doctor stood there smiling. In his hand v as a fancy looking instrument — a radar gun or maybe a blastomatic. It only took two seconds. Of course, a few weeks after you got your first shot the health center said. Whoops. Sorry. Your first shot's no good wnloos-you have a second one. Ha. some . aid. No way. I may only be t If as protected as I ( ( i would be if I had two shots. But I'm more protected than if I didn't have any. That seemed logical Then things began to get scarey. Students began to hear about the cases of paralysis developing in people who had their shots. And the government halted all shooting until things could be straightened out. Ha. some said. I'm more likely to develop paralysis than if I didn't have any shots, but I'm only half as likely to get paralysis than I would be if I got both shots. And that seemed logical too.

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The Organizational Fair is always held on Parent's Weekend. This is mainly because the students can't think of anything else to do with their parents on Saturday morning. Besides, it’s great PR. Parents go away feeling that this UMO is a pretty interesting place, full of cultural, informative, entertaining things for their children to do. Little do they know that every other Saturday morning of the year, that colorful mall is only a wasteland of muddy footprints and beer bottles. But granted, the Fair is a colorful, interesting occasion, with karate and fencing exhibitions, hang-gliding demonstrations, and a real live airplane stuck right in the middle of the mall. 21