West Virginia University - Monticola Yearbook (Morgantown, WV)

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ARE NOTHING WITHOUT PLACES. Places to study: classroom buildings late Saturday after- noon ... a still sadness, an echo of loneliness. No people! Monday morning their life blood steams in and out, talking, laughing. Here Is someone drinking a between class Seven- Up. There Is someone cramming for the next hour test. The library, books! But what are books without people to read them? What are places without people? Places to live: the dorm room or apartment. Without the people In them they are merely places: with people, they become a personality In themselves. A coat thrown on a bed ... an open book . . . last Saturday night ' s favor hung on the wall . . . people living in a place. Places to party: Frat houses . . . My Brothers . . . The Red Cellar ' . . . places for fun. A place Is no fun without people, though. People laughing, talking, shouting. People letting off steam, relaxing. People together, having fun in a place. Places to think: a quiet walk by the stadium . . . sitting on the library terrace wall. It ' s time to be alone: to meditate, to think of trivial things as well as important. People alone thinking in a place. Places to study . . . places to live . . . places to party . . . places to think. All are meaningless without people. Haopy people, sad people. Important people, not-so-important peo- ple. People together or alone in a place. Judith Olson t ' 27