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Shop talk
Shopping for Christmas. A time most people fear, yel
£ the fear is not in the idea itself, but in the actual time,
£ effort and expense put into it.
I find Christmas shopping a heartening experience
:£ but find its time an inconvenience. Generally, Christ-
£ mas shopping officially begins after the Thanksgiving
£ holiday which leaves about four weeks left to shop
£ before the eventful day. The finals crunch starts taking
£ its toll on students these last four weeks which sur-
£ prisingly coincide with shopping season. If employed,
£ as I am, the employer usually demands a little more at-
£ tention during this time since it is a busy season.
With these priorities demanding considerable atten-
tion, shopping becomes a luxury commodity to the
college student. Living in the metropolitan area
makes . it a little easier on shopping in that ex-
pressways to Washington Square, Lloyd Center and
downtown are readily accessible. But to myself, a
ruralite, which is the case of many College students,
driving to any of these places, whether by bus or by car,
takes a great deal of time. Since time is so valuable in
these waning weeks to the rural students as well as the
metro students, I, after shopping all three of these
locations, find that shopping downtown rather than W
Square or Lloyd’s Center is the ticket.
Since many of the shops in W Square and LloydCen-
£ ter are composed of branches of many of thedown-
£ town main shops, the selections are quite better being
£ that they are the main stores. Many of these main
£ stores are compacted together in the vicinity of about
£ five square blocks which makes them easy to find.Sure,
£ the new shopping malls contain miniature replicas of
£ these shops but they don’t have the little specialty
£ shops intermixed with the other shops. You spend less
£ time walking downtown than you would at Washington
£ Square or Lloyd Center.
The benefits from shopping downtown are a variety of
£ clothing shops to smoke shops, music shops to record
£ shops, art galleries to import stores, a vast assortment
£ of eateries ranging from the fast fooders to the intimate
£ dinings, all at your disposal.
After-six parking spots are generally easy to find and
£ many downtown shops offer free parking spaces to
£ their customers.
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Downtown shopping is exciting. The atmosphere is
more festive during this season than any other place
which makes Christmas shopping more of a pleasure
than a drudgery. And to the student who is pressed for
time, downtown shopping eliminates the time and ef-
forts factors but not the expense factor. But then, who
finds spending money during the Christmas season a
problem. The joy is in the giving.
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A fable
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Once there was a fair land
with a beautiful name, where it
rained a lot.
This land was filled with
bright, hard-working people
who, by long custom and prac
tice, had learned to manage
many of their own affairs in
their
own
localities.
There came a time when the
rulers of the land saw that the
people’s educational system
was flawed. The people cried
that they had few places to
learn how to meet the world of
work. They said much of their
education was not of practical
value. Costs were heavy, and
the places of education distant.
Great numbers of the people
were not able to read and write
well. Only a, few could be
taught new skills in place of old
skills no longer needed. Many
women in the fair land needed
more education, but it was not
here for them. .
Helped by the seers among
thefrj, one day the rulers said, ;
let 'us bring forth upbn the land
a new kind of schooling. And
they went oh to tell of their
vision, saying:
Let the direction of the new
schooling rest with the people
in their localities.
Let the doors to the new
schooling be open to all who
might benefit.
Let the new schooling be and profit from it greatly.
built according to the needs
and wants of the people. If a lives, and ours, have improi
man seeks the new schooling mightily from the presence
and he cannot, read, do not this new schooling. It is doi
things we have sait
turn him away. Instead, teach those
ought to do. Let us go on J
him to read. And if he cannot
The people will be wit
figure, teach him to figure. it.
and the burden of the |
Teach him that which he needs
schooling will become lighter,
and wants to learn.
Those who found fault»
And the rulers said also, we
will carry half the burden of this the new schooling said, t
this new schooling. Let the know better than the peo
people in their localities carry those things that are good;
them and those things that a
the other half.'
not good for them. Let us ok
And so it came to pass.
rules and create bureaus in'
Divers places began to prac der that the new schooling c
tice the new schooling. Many be controlled and directed.
people of many kinds were put
But those who were plea
to work at it. A great activity
filled the land. And the new with the new schooling q
schooling multiplied and that rules and bureaus were)
became fruitful, even beyond unto the adder and the aspi
the farthest visions of the seers. other serpents. The wii
The people profited and were among them saw that the i
pleased. And the rulers were schooling would soon beco
much like the old school
also pleased.
But the burden of the And they told the people of
new schooling became heavy. dangers.
And the people beta
And- some among the rulers
began to find fault. Others them and rose up in a gr
declared that the old schooling outcry against those »
was being ruined, forgetting would destroy the n
why the ne w schooling began in schooling.
And so the new school
the first place. Others said, our
burdens are heavier than we was allowed to go on meet
the needs of the people.
can carry.
But still others said, let us
Dr. John Hakan«
continue with the new
College Presidi
schooling. Our people value it
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