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U.S. armed forces will have 
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Maine as Senate Majority leader 
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his new deputy, suceeding 
Cranston. Dole of Kansas won 
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r loving Creator; How wonderful is your creation of the universe, 
V^/the earth, ali nature, and humanity... 
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How beautiful the changing seasons...The rebirth and new life of 
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The Worship Card 
That Saved Souls 
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The Slice Sports 
Review 
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GUEST EDITORIAL 
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TWENTY SOMETHING 
4 
AND SO IT GOES 
BACKWARD GLANCE 
9 
LINCOLN. NERRASKl 
2 - The Clocktower 
Guest Editorial 
by Byard W. Parks 
Of Stampeding Sheep 
I
've watched many exciting episodes 
of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom 
during my lifetime. 
I have probably 
seen more herds of animals chased 
down, tranquilized and relocated than 
Mutual of Omaha has sold life 
insurance policies. 
But one thing I 
have never seen is "Jim" in his beat up 
Jeep in hot pursuit of of a flock of 
stampeding 
sheep. 
Do 
sheep 
stampede? I've seen every other kind 
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of animal barreling pell-mell across the 
Serengeti plains but never sheep! Can 
sheep stampede? If a flock of woollies 
resolved that they were tired of only 
grazing grass and singing rounds of 
"Home, Home on the Range," and 
really wanted to start a rampage, could 
they muster up enough unflinching 
courage to move boldly, aggressively 
and purposely in a unified mass? 
Could the serene mind set of the 
sheep be jarred into this kind of 
spontaneous free-spirited action? 
I have always wanted to be in on a 
revival. I am not talking about a small 
"flicker of hope" type generated by a 
$23 increase in thirteenth Sabbath 
offering. This variety of fervor, like an 
offering plate being passed, quickly 
comes and goes. I am talking about a 
bold, aggressive, purposeful, unified 
mass revival. One that like a spark in 
an oil refinery will ignite, explode and 
burst into flame a people fired with 
Jesus. 
What we anxiously await is a 
colossal reviving, the zenith of time, 
the mighty finale! We await a white 
hot movement. This spiritual volcano 
will shower it's molten message 
unashamedly upon all. It is to be a 
revival where hearts are melted in 
such a massive and all inclusive 
manner that no one will be left 
unchanged. 
I look forward to an arrow of 
contagious enthusiasm that shoots 
straight and swift to the masses. Our 
neighbors, co-workers, people we see 
everyday are not able to avoid hearing 
the resounding echo of the fantastic 
things that are happening. They all in 
a rush for a happier existence want in 
on the movement. It is a well-spring of 
love. 
Love, 
quenching 
people's thirst for 
meaning in life. 
No longer do we 
keep to ourselves 
the good news we 
have for so long 
held captive; it has 
gotten free and 
nowthe community 
and world eagerly 
embrace it. Those 
discovering Jesus for the first time 
begin 
spreading 
His name 
and 
announcing His advent everywhere. 
This 
tremor 
of spiritual 
zeal 
culminates in personal life changes as 
well. Shackles of compromise and 
complacency will be, by our own 
choice broken. 
The wound of 
uneasiness of expressing our spiritual 
feelings with friends will be healed. 
We 
will 
as 
never 
before 
talk 
comfortably and openly upon eternal 
matters. Jesus' name will never cease 
to be the core of our conversation. 
We suddenly find Jesus involved in 
every facet of our life. 
Rather we 
begin restructuring our lives so Jesus is 
left out of no area. Daily routine is no 
longer routine because Jesus now 
captivates our vision of future goals; 
Jesus now consumes our thoughts; 
Jesus now compels our every action! 
We decide to dethrone pseudo-
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Thanksgiving 
Dinner 
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or those students unable to leave 
during Thanksgiving Break, the 
Ministerial Club is inviting 
to 
Thanksgiving dinner on November 22 
at 1p.m. in the Christianson Board 
Room 
(6th 
floor 
of the 
Dick 
building). 
Anyone interested is encouraged 
to sign up in the Division of Religion 
or Campus Ministries by noon 
on 
Tues., November 20. 
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Editorial 
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The Worship 
Card That Saved 
Souls 
by Shayne Caraway 
U
nion College requires its students 
to attend a certain number of 
worship services—35 per semester 
according to my latest information. 
Although the intentions of the college 
and faculty seem worthy in my 
opinion, 
the 
required 
worship 
attendance 
is negative 
for 
the 
individual 
student and 
the college 
as a whole. 
Firstly 
and 
most 
importandy, 
a person's religious experience should 
be between the individual and the 
individual's deity. 
It is not Union 
College's place to try to step in-
between God and self; for between 
God and self belongs no person or 
institution. 
I don't believe that the 
college has the capability or ethical 
right to dictate what every student 
needs religiously. Every person's 
religious needs are different. 
It is 
absurd that the college believes its 
implementation of required worship 
credits can improve each student's 
religious experience. 
Secondly, the students at Union 
College are legal adults (generally). 
Adults should not be treated as minors 
but as adults. I feel that I have been 
condescended to through the college's 
implication that I am not mature 
enough to decide whether or not I am 
in need of worship services. 
The 
college should be concerned with 
student responsibility. 
The college 
appears to believe that by requiring 
worship service attendance it can 
instill religious responsibility within 
students. This is a misconception on 
the college's behalf. Telling people 
what to do reduces the amount of 
responsibility they possess. The way 
to help individuals become more 
responsible is to allow them to make 
their own choices while offering to 
guide, counsel, and help them in the 
decision making process. As an adult, 
I have the right to cast a vote for 
whom I believe should be president, 
yet at Union College I don't have the 
ability to decide whether or not I 
should attend worship services. 
Thirdly, human nature has a 
tendency to oppose that which is 
required and forced. 
How can the college 
expect 
good 
feelings about worship 
services when such 
worship services are 
virtually forced upon the students? 
The 
idea 
of required 
worship 
attendance burdens me every time I 
attend. However, if I attend a worship 
service because I choose to attend, I 
do not have the thought of worship 
credits as a stumbling block in my 
path. 
Fourthly, I don't believe' that 
Christianity, or any religion for that 
matter, 
should 
be 
reduced 
to 
numbers—religion 
is 
a 
highly 
emotional thing. Union College seems 
more interested in worship counts than 
responsibility, maturity, freedom, and 
beneficial religious experience. Union 
College's success should be measured 
by 
the 
improvement it 
brings 
to 
students lives 
in 
terms 
of 
education, 
responsibility, 
and religious 
experience; 
and although 
attending 
required 
worship 
services may 
educate students, giving the students 
the choice to attend would give them 
the opportunity to learn 
and experience based 
on 
their 
own 
decisions. What we 
leam on our own we 
learn best. 
Finally, the college 
can 
loose 
some 
respect 
from 
students 
and 
outside individuals. 
By 
analyzing 
the 
reasoning 
behind 
the 
required 
worship 
attendance, some may 
find the college to be 
dictating, irrational, un-
Christ like, and distrustful 
of 
student 
ability, 
maturity, 
rights, 
and 
freedoms. 
I don't believe that Jesus would try 
to push worship services on students. 
When Jesus spoke, people came 
because they were interested and 
intrigued. We should attend worship 
services because of our desire to be 
there. If a worship service can't draw 
people based on its own merits, 
maybe it isn't worth offering. 
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Feature 
Twenty-
something 
by Shelly Yost 
U'Tphey 
have 
trouble 
making 
X decisions. 
They would rather 
hike in the Himalayas than climb a 
corporate ladder. 
They have no 
heroes, no anthems, no style of their 
own. they crave entertainment, but 
their attention span is as short as one 
flip of a TV dial. They hate yuppies, 
hippies and druggies...They possess 
only a rudimentary sense of their own 
identity, 
but 
a 
monumental 
preoccupation with all the problems 
the preceding generation will leave 
them to fix." Who are "they?" "They" 
are us; or according to Time, "they" are 
the members of the twenty something 
generation in America. The July 16, 
1990 issue of Time sees the 18-28 year 
olds in this country as a very nebulous 
group. We seem to be, "lurking in the 
shadows of society, waiting quietly 
until we figure ourselves out." 
The twenty something generation 
has been raised by television and 
reared by non-traditional or single-
parent families. We have become the 
best-educated generation in U.S. 
history, but our learning has made us 
leery of nearly everything. We are 
afraid of becoming another money-
mad 
"me" 
generation; 
we 
are 
suspicious of organized religion and 
we view our own government with 
mistrust, if not contempt. We yeam to 
travel and we are postponing our 
careers later than any preceding 
generation of U.S. workers. 
Time 
suggests that what most frustrates the 
twenty something 
generation is our, 
"failure to create an original youth 
culture." We have been handed down 
everything from music to clothes and 
have been left with little room for our 
imagination—or maybe we just don't 
have an imagination. 
How do members of the twenty 
something generation here at Union 
view themselves? Generally, it could 
be said that we don't know. 
Some I 
interviewed felt that we have learned a 
great deal from the free wheeling 60's. 
Others felt that we haven't learned 
anything—as evidenced by increases 
in AIDS cases and teenage pregnancy. 
Half of the students I talked with felt 
that they were more cautious with 
money than their parents, the other 
half felt that they were more reckless. 
Nearly all of those I spoke with, 
however, felt that the "meism" of the 
80's will only get worse in the 90's. 
Union students felt that the issues that 
would 
mobilize 
our 
generation 
politically 
ranged 
from 
the 
environment to the Sunday law, and a 
good many people I spoke with didn't 
really care. 
What is the twenty something 
generation then? Who are we? 
It 
seems that we are a little bit of 
everything, as well as a fair amount of 
nothing. 
a 
Sheep from page 2 
spirituality from our lives and let Jesus 
reign! 
What would it take to get sheep to 
stampede? "[The Shepherd] calls His 
own sheep by name and leads them 
out. When He has brought out all his 
own, He goes on ahead of them, and 
His sheep follow Him because they 
know His voice" John 10:3,4. Sounds 
to me like Christ is the one to lead out 
and get things stirred up. Our only 
duty is to make certain that we 
recognize the Shepherd's voice. 
Is it 
possible that Christ right now is 
shouting to get this show moving? Is 
it possible we have been grazing 
contentedly for so long that we have 
no desire to move at the sound of the 
Shepherds voice? 
The rumbling sounds of a Jeep with 
a tranquilizer gun are getting closer 
and louder. Will no one in this timid 
flock move? What would it take to get 
these sheep to stampede? 
One little sheep lifts his head 
momentarily from the grass and asks 
his woolly friend grazing next to him, 
"Can sheep stampede?" 
6 
Why Are We in 
the Middle East? 
by Christopher Sanders-a former 
student from Southwestern Adventist 
College who has served in the military 
W
hy are we in the Middle East' Is 
it worth possibly sacrificing the 
lives of a large number of American 
servicemen and untold numbers of 
Iraqi soldiers and civilians? Is all this 
just for cheaper oil? 
This issue seems to be very clear 
cut in a lot of minds at Union College. 
I have heard a variety of opinions 
ranging from "Let's go nuke the place," 
to "I don't care. I don't have to fight." 
The most common one is "I don't 
think we should be fighting for cheap 
oil." There are a lot of things that have 
not been brought out in a lot of the 
discussions that I have heard. 
First of all, is it right to fight for 
cheaper oil? When you consider the 
impact that oil has on the economy, 
not only globally but in your own 
backyard, then yes it probably is wise 
to do everything in our power to keep 
it cheap. If Saddam Hussein comes out 
of this in power he will have the 
ability to dictate oil prices. He now 
posses the Kuwaiti oil fields. That will 
make him the third largest producer. 
The economic blockade will not last, 
so he will be able to sell his oil 
eventually. 
Second, Hussein is running an 
oppressive dictatorship. By nature this 
type of government is unstable. 
Dictatorships need a cause to unite the 
people. External expansion is one of 
the best ways to do this. Unite the 
people against a common enemy. Iraq 
went to war ten years ago against Iran 
for reasons that are still not clear. 
These two countries have always been 
enemies, so it was not to difficult to 
get a war going. This tended to pull 
the country closer. This war lasted 
eight years. Now after two years of 
peace Iraq and Hussein are going to 
fight again. The reason is that Kuwait 
was hurting it's economy. The reality is 
Hussein had many internal problems. 
Various factions were becoming 
restless, 
and 
money 
that 
the 
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The Clocktower - 5 
government would use to pay off 
these groups was being sucked up by 
the war debt. A large part of which 
was owed to Kuwait. Cancel out 
Kuwait, cancel out debt. If not 
challenged there is no reason to stop 
there. 
Militarily Hussein is a very serious 
threat. Having him in power is not 
unlike having a rattlesnake in your 
house. You always want to know 
where he is and what he is up to. If he 
goes unchecked that threat is only 
going to become worse. He will have 
more 
money 
to 
upgrade 
his 
technology. To buy more "beans and 
bullets" as it were. This is what he 
wants. Saddam Hussein has expressed 
the desire to become a world power. 
He would also like to unite the Arab 
world. Should he come out of this in 
power he would have the prestige to 
possibly unite the Arab world. He is 
working on nuclear weapons. It has 
been 
speculated 
that he 
could 
conceivably have a crude atomic 
device within five years. He has been 
working on developing a space 
program. Iraq has already put 
satellite in a low earth orbit. These 
same rockets could also be used as 
ICBM's (Inter-Continental Ballistic 
Missiles). His chemical capability is 
quite well known, and he is working 
on developing biological weapons. All 
of these put together make him a very 
formidable enemy. 
The consequences of a fight in the 
Middle East are very high. This could 
unite the Arab world against the West 
and bring out organized and freelance 
terrorism on a scale that would be 
unprecedented. The strong alliance 
that has been organized could fall 
apart as the public opinion is rallied 
against the war. The use of chemical 
and 
other 
weapons 
of 
mass 
destruction could brought to bear 
resulting in horrendous casualties for 
both 
militaries 
and 
civilian 
populations. The consequences of not 
fighting are also high. If Hussien is still 
in power he will be able to intimidate 
and militarily blackmail all the other 
oil producers in the region. He could 
threaten Israel, which would throw the 
whole region into a turmoil, and 
eventually he would be able to hold 
the West hostage with his missiles. 
Hussein would be able to dictate 
policy to a large part of the world. 
Hussein must be removed from 
power. There is no way he can remain 
in control of Iraq and its military. The 
military might of Iraq must be 
destroyed. This includes the industries 
that support it as well as the actual 
army. We now have to decide if we 
are willing to pay the price to do this. 
We need to take the initiative. We 
need to choose when and where we 
will fight To allow Hussein to do that 
is to give him the upper hand. We also 
need to remember that we will 
probably fight him, whether we do it 
now or later, will determine the 
amount of damage done and the . 
number of lives lost. 
JK 
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6 - The Clocktower 
Health 
Calendar 
November 20 - BTM: 
Omaha, NE 
November 21 - 25 -
Thanksgiving 
Vacation 
Happy Vege Turkey 
time 
November 22 - "Stuck 
at Union" 
Thanksgiving Dinner 
November 27 - General 
Student Recital 
November 30 - BTM: 
Olathe, KS 
Vespers: UFC 
Accapella Concert 
VI Alternative: Praise 
& Prayer, Sing & 
Share 
December 1 - CVC: Bob 
Bretsch 
FES: Warren Miller 
"Extreme Winter" 
December 3 - BTM: UC 
ASB Senate 7th 
Session 
December 4 - ASB 
Convocation 
December 5 - NEXT 
CLOCKTOWER 
Towards a 
Lighter Weigh 
by Beatrice Neall 
W
ould you like help taking off 
some pounds? Avoid weight gain 
over Thanksgiving and Christmas? 
Here's a plan. 
A support group will be started at 
the college under the auspices of 
TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly), a 
national 
organization 
with 
a 
coordinator in Lincoln. At TOPS, 
members 
share 
their 
trials 
and 
triumphs with others 
going 
through 
similar 
experiences. 
From 
this 
sharing 
come 
suggestions 
on how to do 
better. 
And 
a 
r
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w
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d 
determination to do it again next 
week. 
TOPS does not tell members how 
much weight to lose, but helps 
members obtain their weight goals 
according to the recommendations of 
their own physicians. (Or we can get 
advice from a nutritionist.) Any 
number of people may make up a 
chapter, with four as a minimum. 
Meetings begin with members 
weighing in to have their progress 
recorded 
confidentially. 
Then 
a 
program is presented. Sometimes a 
member 
will 
lead 
out 
in 
the 
discussion. Or there are recognition 
programs or contests. But most of all 
members will find at meetings the 
support they need through 
the 
friendship 
and 
camaraderie 
of 
people 
helping people. 
If you would like to join 
such a group, call 486-3108. 
A convenient time and a 
location will be set up. A^-
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SLICE SPORTS 
REVIEW 
by Gary Schlisner 
H
ello sports fans, it's an honor to 
finally write for the CT. 
Whoa!! 
This week 
in sports was 
truly 
exhilarating for the UC Basketball 
Faithful. 
Two 
"come-from-
behind" 
victories 
in 
the 
Thunderdome in four days is 
enough to make even the mosti 
stoic observers sweat. 
For J 
those 
three 
people 
on 
campus 
who 
somehow 
didn't make it to the Rockin' 
Dome (and you know who I 
you are), I will tell you the' 
story... 
Saturday night was the^ 
home-opener for the Warriors 
(unofficial name), and they were 
down by three-points with under twoN 
minutes to go in the game after 
relinquishing an early lead. At this 
moment, 
freshman 
guard 
Doug 
"Fresh" Hardt fired a Trey to tie it up. 
A few seconds later, showing poise 
and control beyond his rookie status, 
Hardt drilled another to put Union 
ahead for good. 
Hardt had five 
three-pointers in the game to go 
with his 19 points. Mark "Anvil" Miller 
iced the game with two free-throws 
following a comeback attempt by 
Nebraska Christian. 
Final score : UC 
54, Neb. Christian 51. 
Tuesday evening saw our men 
faltering again, but a seven point 
swing involving a technical foul on 
Manhattan (Ks.) Christian and some 
clutch shooting by 
Demetrius Smith 
and Scott Miller 
gave Union 
the 
squeaker, 
67-64. 
Miller nailed two of 
four three-pointers; one 
coming down the stretch 
to aid Union's comeback. 
Thanks guys, for giving 
p 
such 
an 
outstanding effort, and 
for being 4-0. 
Now, to not so exciting news. 
Conventional wisdom here says 
that the Broncos are headed for 
the top five in the NFL In April, 
that is. It's sad, but this time, I'm 
afraid even John and Dan can see 
a Lyght (Todd) at the end of this 
tunnel. Don't you think the Rocket 
would look good in orange too? 
What about Holtz... 
On the other hand, the Vikings 
appear to be a model of stability 
under new QB Rich Gannon. 
Maybe the playoffs, maybe not. 
If 
only they could win their last 
seven games, then Dallas wouldn't 
get to choose a new QB to trade. 
It appears that the missing link has 
broken. 
I know that two weeks have 
already passed, but this needs to 
be said : COLORADO 27, NU 12. 
It doesn't matter what a couple of 
illiterate natives of this state write 
on 1-80 at the border (check out SI 
this week), in the words of NU 
defensive coach Charlie McBride, 
Colorado "obviously has the better 
team." They also have the best 
running back in the country, I 
might add. Next year : CU 35, NU 
7. CU later... 
Students Shoot 
for the Stars in 
Schick Super 
Hoops 
F
or the eighth consecutive year, 
students will participate in the 
country's largest college sports 
program as the Schick Super Hoops 
3-on-3 Basketball Tournament returns 
to campus. For the 1990-91 season, 
more than 200,000 students at nearly 
800 colleges and universities are 
registered to compete. 
Schick Super combines a fun on-
campus event and a competitive off-
campus tournament with exciting 
prizes. The grand prize offers the top 
two male and female teams in each 
region the chance to compete for the 
championship at an NBA arena as 
part of an official NBA game. 
The program consists of three 
rounds. First, all participating schools 
conduct 
an 
on-campus 
3-on-3 
basketball tournament. Then, each of 
the championship teams competes at 
one of 22 Regional Festivals against 
other schools. 
From there, the top 
two male and two best female teams 
in each region play for the regional 
championship at the nearby NBA 
arena. 
Students interested in registering 
should contact Ric Spaulding at 2525. 
8 - The Clocktower 
And So It Goes 
Schmitt and 
Thayer at the 
Library 
by Kelly V. Schmii It with Shan Thayer 
D
one any Christmas shopping 
lately? 
Or are you steamed 
because I even mentioned the subject 
before Santa Claus arrives at Macy's on 
Thanksgiving Day? This article isn't for 
you. It's for those of you who have 
made an honest resolution 
not to buy any gifts on 
Christmas Eve this year. It's 
for those of you on a budget 
It's for those of you who 
aren't quite sure what to buy 
Cousin Edwin or Best Friend 
Maureen. 
Books 
were 
chosen as the only item on 
this list because there is truly 
something for everyone, and 
frankly there are several 
excellent books out there that 
aren't being read. Shan and I 
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dialogued on this issue, and the following 
gender-spanning recommendations have been 
tried by us and found to have galactic appeal. 
KVS: C. S. Lewis' space trilogy isn't at the 
top of my list, but I'll mention it first anyhow for 
lack of a better substitute. 
The series is 
comprised of three books: 
Out of the Silent 
Planet, Perelandra, 
and That Hideous Strength. 
Yes this is science fiction but no it is not boring 
if you don't usually like science fiction. That 
Hideous 
Strength 
is the darkest and most 
haunting of the three, but the conclusion shows 
a glimmer of light, as the dawn when one has 
the sense that something very great and 
wonderful is about to happen, and then it ends, 
and I've given away nothing by telling you so. 
ST: I must agree, Kelly, quite a fascinating 
series, but I think I tend to enjoy the second 
book Perelandra 
a little more. The book has 
some extremely strong spiritual overtones, and 
an infuriating image of what sin is really all 
about. The fact that the book is science fiction 
allows the author to give a real twist to reality 
to get his point across. 
I like the solid 
appearance this man gives to an abstract world. 
The change from science fiction to fantasy is 
a brief one, and our next selection is The 
Hobbit, by J. R. R Tolkien. A fine book, and a 
classic of fantasy readers, this book takes you 
over and under hill, through gladed forests, 
over splashing brooks to the end, where you 
stand and look over what leads into one of the 
best fantasy trilogies ever written, The Lord of 
the Rings. This series has a good sense of 
movement and a powerful and forceful ending. 
The conflict between good and evil is readily 
apparent and has reason to be terrifying at 
times. Unique characters and the grip of rich, 
fantastical folklore make these books appealing 
to a wide variety of people. 
KVS: This narrow-minded reviewer can see 
no reason why anyone could dislike this 
splendid series. However, it may be a little long 
for those who like to take their time or for those 
who may be daunted by the thought of reading 
all four books. 
But let the faint-hearted fear 
not: the enchanting beauty and piercing prose 
will more then compensate for the length. 
ST: 
The Princess Bride: 
You've seen the 
movie, now read the book! I quite fell in love 
with this book after reading it for the first time. 
It adds a facet of humanness and warm humor 
that doesn't exist in the movie. The book is real 
and so is the author. I strongly recommend that 
you read the introduction to the book, seeing 
that it puts the book in quite a different light 
and gives the reader a unique way of viewing 
the concepts it presents. 
Backward Glance 
The Clocktower - 9 
KVS: And yes the book is really 
written by William Goldman and not S. 
Morgenstern as you have been falsely 
led to believe. 
The introduction is 
definitely part of the book, because 
there one meets Helen, William's hot-
shot psychiatrist wife who knows 
when he's looking at leggy blondes in 
sunny LA while she's at home in 
wintry New York. In the body of the 
book, one discovers the real reason 
behind its existence. It's an immortal 
truth wrapped up in a comical fairy 
tale. 
ST: Two of my favorites are The 
Secret Garden 
by Francis Hodgson 
Burnett, and The Cardinal of the 
Kremlin by Tom Clancy. The former is 
maybe considered a litde juvenile by 
some, but the strands of compassion, 
love, fear, and curiosity for those of us 
big people who are willing to sit down 
and read it. The latter is a book that 
stand close to the edge of reality, by 
the master of the technothriller. 
A 
third person perspective of many 
places and stories happening at once 
gives the reader a broad view. The 
plot is excellent, the span is great, and 
the ending is quite justifiable. 
KVS: 
I could not leave without 
mentioning my favorite book of all 
time and how I came to read it. I was 
a freshman here at the time, and my 
roommate was in love with a guy 
named Dave. He told her to read The 
Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, 
and like the obedient adorer that she 
was, she went out and blew six bucks 
on the paperback version. Within its 
covers we both found a dashing mix 
of chivalry, swordplay, cunning, 
romance, and a host of other excellent 
qualities. 
This book is without a 
doubt one of the finest unsung novels 
in existence today. 
ST: Fine and dashing it is, quaint 
and antiquated it isn't 
I really enjoy 
some 
of 
the 
less-than-perfect 
characters it presents. 
I'm quite 
fascinated by the heroic and failed 
attempts at love. Although the author 
waxes a little eloquent in these 
instances, the feelings are genuine and 
can be felt by the reader. I just started 
this book, and I might add as a 
sidelight to those less tenacious than 
myself that the book is very easy to 
get into and enjoy. 
The Rules of Romance, Part 2 
by Garry Treft 
??'T1here was one ray of light for the love-smitten swain. Each Thursday was 
X set apart as the time for 'the calling hour.' A young man could, upon 
securing permission from the preceptress, call on a young lady "in the public 
parlor.' A half hour was acceptable although twenty minutes was accounted 
better taste. 
"Another break which allowed a bit of mingling was the Sabbath afternoon 
sing. 
From dinner until three the girls' parlor was open for ladies and 
gendemen to sing together. As a precaution to those whose presence was 
accounted for not so much because of their vocal ability as their social skill, the 
faculty warned that after the singing was over, no loitering would be permitted 
on the second floor of the dormitory where the parlor was located. 
"It was often possible to boodeg a litde visit during the singing, however, 
since it was logical to sit once in a while to rest from the exertions of vigorous 
singing and it was not natural to sit alone in an unsociable manner. An ever-
present faculty member held that extra-legal sweetness to a minimum." 
And so we send you to your local 
bookstore. 
Frankly, we'd rather tell 
you to buy these books for yourselves. 
Cousin Edwin can wait until his 
birthday next October. 
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