West Virginia University - Monticola Yearbook (Morgantown, WV)

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FOOD FORTHOUGHT Partaking of lunch at the dorm, My victuals all seem to conform. Believe what you ' re told, Why everything ' s cold. Excepting the ice cream, it ' s warm. PROTESTORS Jeeringly, sneeringly. So perseveringly, Heckle policemen. Scream vulgar words. Walk your mile, acting vile. Often t im es ii if an t He , Ramparts of freedom or Sheep massed in herds? ON LIVING Integrate, copulate. Go forth and populate, Up with the negro! Down with the pill! Judism, prudism. Everyday nudism. Skip church this week So you ' ll have time to kill. NOT QUITE KOSHER If Cannibals were Jewish, they could not eat a Man like Charles DeGaulle. MONOPOLY The object of the Game is to buy, and sell, and Eventually win. POSTULA TE Poetry is oft ' in vain. Driving brilliant men inane. . . — Richard J. Pollack

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THE FOOL The fool is he who grows adept At making self appear inept. The Coward {In Heroic Couplets) I think that I shall not attempt to he, A friend to all, except my best friend me. Fm all for one and I ' m the one I ' m for. This ain ' t my bag, and man, this ain ' t my war! If danger nears and I decide to run. As I leave I ' ll let you have my gun. If cowards die a thousand deaths, I say . . . ni die my thousand later, not today. THE PROTESTOR If Dupont steps on campus, III picket in the streets. Fll don my fragrant grubhies And store away my neats. I ' ll jeer each representative, I ' ll call each one a slob. But if I pass chem. 17, I ' ll ask them for a job. T.G.I.F. There once was a man without fear. Who drank eighteen gallons of beer, While quenching his thirst. His huge stomach burst. Filling the streets with good cheer. PLA YTEX LIVES! A girl with a figure fantastic. Her upper proportions bombastic, Said Girls, don ' t despair. I think it ' s just fair. To tell you it ' s all done with plastic.

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A MODERN PRIEST ' S VIEW OF SEX AND MORALITY How does one live and grow as a person? How does one relate lovingly and creatively to other persons? This is what sexuality is all about; for a man to he at home with his basic masculinity and a woman with her basic femininity; for both to be able to recognize and even cherish the feminine in the man, the masculine in the woman. Sexuality is at the very heart of person and relationship. It can deeply sensitize or grossly de- humanize. This is why living fully as a woman or man requires a great sense of direction and goals. In this sense do we speak of morality and sexuality in the same breath. Inhibition and control are at best important instruments in living out an intelligently perceived self-concept and lovingly but honestly relating to another. Simple no-no ' s and taboos are never the ingredients of an intelligent moral sense. A truly human and, I think. Christian approach to sex cannot be adequately expressed in a list of do ' s and don ' t ' s and neat categories of mortal and venial sins. One can be irresponsible only insofar as these deeds represent his real attitude. RA TIONA LIZA TION In judging one ' s own responsibility for actions it is always easy to rationalize in one ' s favor. This is why a person who seeks to be authentic must be able to share his questions and ambiva- lence about himself with others who are similarly concerned about life, its goals and its demands. Everyone must have a family or a community in which he can share his fears, doubts, reserva- tions, questions — a community of idealists seeking to make their ideals practical. I think this community notion is at the heart of the Roman Catholic idea of confession, the sacrament of penance and reconciliation. In confession, we Catholics are confronted with many specific questions about sex. How are we to deal with these questions healthily and responsibly? Premarital .sex, for instance, is not wrong because it is dirty, because it results in loss of physi- cal virginity or reputation. For two people who deeply relate to each other, are in love, or think they are in love, to want to express themselves sexually is a normal and healthy development. But for human beings sex is not simply an inevitable instinct. It is the deepest form of human communication that exists. It is a most delicate, sensitive conversation which can open up per- sons to joy and deeper personhood, or it can hurt or reduce a person to a thing. In such a communication where partners to the dialogue are open and exposed and vulnera- ble, it is possible to speak the most important word that needs to be said to one ' s beloved. But it is al.w possible to say too much, to say more than one is ready to .say, to indicate total commit- ment hut not be ready to back it up v. ' ith the reality of one ' s life laid on the line for that other person. It is possible to say and even to mean it at the time: I love you, and then take it back. MATURE SEXUALITY I use the example of premarital sex to say that sexuality is not at its heart a matter of what ' s clean or dirty, modest or obscene, pure or impure, but of what is most deeply human and honest and loving. Responsible attention to one ' s .sexuality, then, means two things. Mature .sexuality is to be as fully and comfortably a man or a woman and in one ' s sexual context strive to relea.se the deepest and best facets of one ' s personality. Mature sexuality is also to cherish and take responsibility for the good of the other person — not simply what the other wants or needs at the moment or what will turn on that person. To relate maturely means to bring one ' s best resources to the rela- tionship and to evoke what is best from the other person.