Western Washington University - Klipsun Yearbook (Bellingham, WA)

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a new generation in social standards (western is a number one west coast party school) evolves from the variety encoun- tered, news of a dollar-a- head keg party races through the union ' til fri- day night sees nearly fifty polluted students piling out windows and over fences when five yellow- coated local cops stand in the porch light, three blocks away, a half-plas- tered freshman tells sgt. burley, i don ' t know, just a minute, i ' ll find the owner. then slowly clos- ing the door, he walks out through the kitchen and into the alley. a few doors away two pairs of dilated eyes ob- serve rain drops slide down the window and dis- appear, like years slip- ping away, quotes a psy- chedelic thought. 16

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math class and gets perfect scores and no one knows the difference; and he wonders if there is one. class lets out and something is different, the lounge, the coffee shop and off-campus . . . each appeals in a separ- ate way to separate individuals, the lounge possesses a quiet air with talk of classes, meals and ideas, the coffee shop echoes tete-a- tete of football cap- tains and prom queens, while apart- ment gatherings re- lax with beer and donovan and con- verse in another social world.

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monday comes, as it will, and sehome garbage cans overflow with bot- tles for tuesday ' s collec- tion, a quarter ' s texts and assignments appear in the back alley about every three months, but aspir- in bottles, stubbies, and gallon jugs come in be- tween, existence seems to be sustained by week- end releases and care packages from home. the earnings of a summer soon disappear, so car- peted apartments give way to converted nine- teenth century houses, home may be a rear porch with a little gas heater, but it ' s still home and after a while the place even feels comfortable, paint covers the pat- terned wallpaper, be- cause, if it came down, so would the plaster, yet every crack has a friendly character. •- 17