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SKMOHS MIKE KKl'CE tl.) and NAN BART1.KTT lH participated
in one of the pep assembly activities, the "jcllo-stuffing" contest.
Pep Assemblies Imitate Rituals
Itv Diilr Nelson
The following article is not
intended as an indictment of the
assemblies. The author has no
intention of condemning or ridi
culing either those who organize
the assemblies, or those Mho goto
them. However, he felt that
perhaps the article would afford
some amusement in pointing out
certain parallels which may or
may not have been noticed by
those involved with the as
semblies. The parallels between the pep
assemblies and primitive religi
ous ceremonies, particularly
those ceremonies intended to
bring good luck when hunting,
are fascinating. This article will
examine just a few of the
similarities between bolh rituals.
Chants are used as invocations
to bring good luck. These chants
Spaghetti Does Not
Rhyme With Spinoza
By Rick Ktanek
"Good and bad are relative to
human and often individual
tastes and ends," says Spinoza,
spoken of in the last article
concerning free will. Good and
bad are not constant or definite
terms, they are extremes applied
through human tastes. These
labels are also results of human
ignorance concerning the order
of things in the universe.
"Whenever, then, anything in
nature seems to us ridiculous,
absurd or evil, it is because we
have but a partial knowledge of
things, and are in the main
ignorant of order and coherence
of nature as a whole." Spinoa
explains.
Selfishness also enters into the
picture of "good and bad."
Spinoza tells us that, ". . . we
want everything to be arranged
according to the dictates of our
own reason." When we judge
something as good or evil or right
or wrong, we do not take into our
judgment the order of nature and
the universe as a whole.
"What our reason pronounces
bad is not bad as regards the
order and laws of universal
nature, but only as regards the
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follow a certain formula; at each
ritual many of the same cheers
are used. Eventually these form
ulae become an established part
of the ritual and appear in each
year's student handlook.
Cheerleaders, who correspond
perhaps to priestesses, follow a
prescribed set of motions and
gesticulations in accompaniment
to the chants.
Clapping, yelling, and foot
stomping occur in the assem
blies. These activities apparently
correspond to purpose evidental
ly being to work the tribe
student body into a frenzy of
enthusiasm.
The posters which appear
before a game demonstrate
another parallel to primitive
ritual. In ancient rituals, it is
thought that by mocking the
enemy, and by assuming that he
laws of our own nature taken
separately."
As was mentioned earlier, the
terms good and bad can vary in
their application, as what one
might label bad, another might
think of it as the opposite, or even
another might have no opinion.
Thus no one judgment is valid,
"Music is good to the melan
choly, bad to mourners, and
indifferent to the dead."
Spinoza sums it up: "Bad and
good are prejudices which the
eternal reality cannot recognize;
it is right that the world should
illustrate the full nature of the
infinite, and not merely the
particular ideals of man."
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Before settlers ever
arrived in the Rogue Val
ley, the Modoc and Kla
math Indians had termed
the Ashlund area a "Med
icine Ground." The
Indiand used the great vari
ety of mineral waters os a
place to bring their sick
and aged for relief.
Many claims were made
of the mineral waters, some
of which seemed a trifle
exaggerated. The list of
maladies for which the water
offered comfort included
such things as blood poi-
will be destroyed. In the current
situation, posters are put up
which attack the opponent with
words, forecasting their doom,
etc.
In primitive rituals, sacrifices
frequently occur. Generally only
an animal is slain, but upon
occasion human beings are
sacrificed.
In the pep assemblies, there is
no actual bloodletting. Yet there
is a sort of parallel wherein
student's) must perform an
embarrassing action(s) which
sacrifices whatever "coolness"
they happen to possess, such as
pinning the tail on the bear, girls
donning football uniforms, boys
donning cheerleader outfits, etc.
Identity is sacrificed.
The purpose of these actions is
unclear, unless it is to raise the
general moral at someone else's
expense.
There are other similarities
and parallels which could be
. discussed, but finding these will
be left up to the reader.'
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