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Returning student dismayed over course selection BpR.W. Greene Oflhe Print II took a Year Off from HBol, to get into the Real The year turned into ^■the world has proved itself to ft terrifyingly real; the eyrie ^■cademia seems as warm ^■as cozy as a cave. ■t if the prospect of a ^■larly nine-to-three seems only occasionally nerve- ^■ng, it is far overshadowed ay the intimidations of the Col- ■ Catalog. One part of me wants to take everything from AGB3 Swine Production to HE 199 Wellness Workshop to SP111 Fundamentals of Speech Communication; another part views all this as so mu|h spurious, if tasty, parrot fool; another part says listen to you# mother and take Auto Body ^Hushing up on my One- Way Audio-Visual Com- muaication late one night, I wondered where all the real courses have gone: PS191 Ornamental ^Khology ^Ke study of the superficial in human personality. The em- phasis is on Facades, Masks, Phpniness, Useless Verbiage ana Social Laughter. Extensive wowshops in Implied Concern, Welkend Love, Pretended Sympathy and Cliches. Students of senior standing will participate in work labs at fashionable nightclubs, rock conceits, political functions, and ir bed. Required for Psch. maibn PH104 Philosophic I^Hpulation The application of philosophy as related to real lifeB Rationalization, idea- distorti n and ignorance are emphasized. Recommended, but not required, for journalism majors. EE201 Divine Wiring The electrical processes of the Godhead, and of its disciples. An examination of the basic electrical materials needed for Nirvana, and the impossibility of finding strong enough cable. The second half of the course will consist of an electrical examination of religious fanatics, from the fused-terminal nine-volt Eveready of Herbert Arm strong, to the charcoal circuits of the Ayatollah Khomeini. opinion Public Opinion Survey Scientific Creationism SCIENTIFIC CREATIONISM is an alternative form of teaching world evolution that proposes creation and evolution by a divine being--but gives no religious instruction. 1) Do you think scientific creationism should be taught in Oregon public schools? 2) Is scientific creationism a violation of the amendment separating church and state? Why or why not? 3) If scientific creationism is labeled unconstitutional, do you believe that label ing it so is, in itself, unconstitutional, due to the government closing off any other teaching possibilities than Darwin’s theory of evolution? Why or why not? SP342 Hectoring-I The art of verbal intimida tion, bullying and humiliation. Emotional, rather than intellec tual, verbalizing will be em phasized. Insult Technique is included in the course, along with Effective Demagoguery and Absurdist Economic Jargon. Recommended for Political Science and Labor Relations majors. Return answers to The Print envelopes throughout the campus or take them to Trailer B. course; all credit hours will be earned in intensive one-on- and SO301 Modern Cultural one, two-on-two, polygamous relationships. Ma Technique Using Popular Culture for jors must present, on comple fun and profit. The identifica tion of the course, a three- tion of trends, social one- month project (with working upmanship, fashion merchan models) on the subject of dising, crotch-enlargement Ecstasy. Teacher participation (men only), chest enlargement is stressed. Administrative, too. (women only), and Disco as FM121 Cocktailing and Ethics, are only a few of the Stewardessing: The Female subjects studied in this ever- as Diet Soft Drink Femininity as presented in popular course. The course- year is divided into three sub the context of the Surgical jects: Beauty as Weaponry in Smile. The basic of Triteness, the fall, Fashionable Pro Vacuousness and Mascara are letarian Trends in the Winter, presented, with an analysis of and Drug Social Psychology in modern American marketing styles and the technique of the spring. Freezing the Soul. Though MM103 Applied Libido The Libido in intensive previous years have centered workshop. There will be vir on the Sanctity of Marriage, tually no class time in the this year will re-emphasize the basics of Baby-Making. Also increase their input. Beer will be recommended for Male Myth comprehended every class majors. night, and precepts of taste, EC201 Introduction to body, carbonation, and mirth Fraud making will be broken down Shoplifting through Armed and obliterated. Subtleties of Robbery, a must course for any human interaction will be Phys. Ed. major who wishes to derided and rejected. Toasts coach on the West Coast. will be made to the most FBI/Mobster Differentiation is unseemly of causes. Senior an aspect of the course this students will, participate in a year, along with Non-Existent field-trip to major Northwest Universities, but emphasis is on breweries in the back of the student demonstration of Schludwilier truck. Çod may material learned. Offspring of I reveal himself. bankers, auto-lot dealers, and MU101 Introduction to rock magazine editors are urg Music ed to take EC112, Creative The study of popular music Fraud and EC 119 Idealism from 1973 to the present. Theft. (Upper-Division courses will AL54 Beer deal with the finer deliniations A community course for of this time-frame). There will those not satisfied with normal be studies of Media Manipula- beercomprehensionand wish to 'tion Electronic games erode communiqué^ By R.W. Greene Of The Print My father used to call it the perfect babysitter. He used it to be able to set me in front of it when I was five or six, assured in the knowledge that I would be held enthralled, mouth agape and limbs immobile, while he ran errands. Out of mind, out of trouble. The technology of TV has come a long way since then, but the effects haven't, I went to a club once to see a band. After a couple of hours, I became aware of a persistent beeping from somewhere close. I looked around and saw two young men passing one of those electronic football games back and forth under the table, and under the gazes of their apathetic-looking dates. The club was hot and crowded, and the band flailed away at us with some vigor, but the two were oblivious to everything but the box and the buttons. I remember thinking that it was one of the rudest things I’d ever seen. You can't dispute the new fad's versatility. A friend of mine recently bought Mattel’s Intellevion-a marvelous little deal which lets us play NBA basket ball complete with handshakes between opposing centers, and poker complete with a dealer who shifts his eyes, and sneakily deals himself first. As innocent and as invigorating as a fierce battle with a bunch of dots may be, it still stands on an ethical level with cleaning out your car's ashtray with Ajax-at the most, it doesn't hurt anybody else. Two effects of the new syndrome become obvious fairly soon. One is the overwhelming absorption these games have on you. You can experience this by watching someone play Asteroids for 15 minutes— you come away with eyes glazed in chrome. A bus schedule becomes an intellectual minefield. The other is the murderous effect these games have on human interaction. I have seen an entire roomful of people silenced by one of those football games passed back and forth-battered into muteness by the persistent, grating beeps, and the hoots of the participants. It is the latter that bothers me the most. It is the power to communicate with each other that makes human beings unique. We may not do it efficiently, or with the best intentions, or even thoughtfully, but we do it, and the more practice we get at it, the bet ter off all of us will be. ______ £--------------- — Wednesday, January 28, 1981 Page 3