HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1976-03-10, Page 6Sugar and Spice
by Bill Smiley',
University life
Some chaps' wives go off with' a
boyfriend, leaving behind. them a broken
home.
My wife went off and came horne with a
boyfriend. So, at thb moment, we have a
menage a trois. The home is not yet
completely broken, but it . won't be long.
It's being smashed bit by bit..
As she threatened, she broughtmy No. 1
grandson home for a visit ,so that his
mother could continue going to lectureS
and get her degree, tramping about the
campus, with No. 2 grandson strapped to
her back. . •
Things have certainly changed at the
universities these days e When I went to
college, we lived in -a monk-like residence
for men. Females were allowed in the
building once a year, tor, a cocoa and buns
party on a Sunday afternoon. It was
extremely well chaperoned.
We were allowed to come in at any hour,,
but anyone eaught,with anything'as' lethal
as one bottle of beer in his room was kicked
out of residence.
In the girls' residences, things were
even tougher. They had to be in by 9.30 or
some early hour, and Sign in under the •
grim supervision of 1. house mother. They
dot to stay out until nidnight once a week,
:rid had a "late pass" — until I a.m, once
month.
Nobody -- but nobody — going to
niversity was married; .including most of
iic younger, professors. .
. • En tertain meat consisted of an occasional'
(:11 supervised dance, , totally dry, and
e odd mOvicit was a fairly sterile, far
'um murky life, not exactly 'bohemia, but
e were so naive we thought we were
sappy. •
Today, university life is so different
you'd think you were living in a different,
era, a _different civilization.
Almbst every campus has at least one
pub, some of them half a dozen. Drinking
in residence is tolerated, if not encouraged.
Some campuses have co-ed residences,
where you can live in an apartment, or in
sin, or in anything else that's the current
fad. Smoking in classrooms is
,ammmplace
And there are thousands of married
students. Babies everywhere, despite the
Pill. The Lord knows what they live on, in
these inflated times — grants and loans
and love, I suppose.
Somehow, I can't get too •ineensed over
he new fredoni„ In fact, occasionally I find
.:):,.!Sclf thinking wistfully that I was born a
..;eneration too soon.
In my day, the universities produced
.owe fine graduates, but on the whole,
hey were a dull, bunch. of sticks/narrow,
self,righteous and with a sense of ,.
superiority because of their dekrees,.
Then, the universities were basically
elitist, whateve r you may hear about
people working' their way through college,
From the small towns, the sons and
daug hters of the local doctors and lawyers
and teachers might go to' college, The
ehialren of the so-called working class
hadn't a chance
Today's mixed bag is a ,refreshing
change. Anyone with the intelligence is
able to go to university. There are gaping
breaches in the rigid walls of the old,
hidebound • university traditions.
Standards in the universities have been
lowered, but I think their end-product, the
graduate, is just as bright, a whole lot more
sensitive, .a good deal more tolerant, and
far mor earticulate (even though badly
spoken), than. the large majority of my
Ontemporaries.
Today's students are 'not as polite, but
they are far more honest. They are not as
'moral", but they are far less inhibited.
ineya re not as steady, but they are far less
afraid. They are notas couth, but they are
far less prejudiced. They are more likely to
kick over the traces, but not as likely to be
led by the nose.
Perhaps that's why about 80 per cent of
he male population of Canadian universi-
ies vanished into the armed forces after
the war begain. Thwaslike getting out of
prison.
Courses were excellent, but narrow,
Most professors were pompous and few,
were teachers. Students were, for the most
part, not taught' to think , but only to
regurgitate. It was a rather shallow and s •
snobbish in-world, out of the main stream
of life.
Not so 'these clays. Rigidity has been
shattered, channels have been widened,
and experimentation is welcomed, perhaps
too much so.
Ther are fresh winds blowing: And one
of the freshest is the new status of women
on campus. In my day, the females were
with feW exceptions, grinds rimly headed'
for a spinster's life in a classroom, or rich
girls there to haye fun and get a husband.
Not so today. There are thousands of
ydung women of all colors, shapes and
sizes heading with determination for the
bench, or the operating room, or the
newpaper offices, or whatever, but
heading for freedom to be a person. ,
I'M glad my daughter wasn't a mother of
two 30 years ago. She'd be stuck at home,
"keeping , house" and bringing up the
children, instead of swaggering off to
lectures gallantly; baby on back.
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Even though just about
cryone is Micated with the
minion cold at, some time of the
-- usually this time of the
or -- few people will admit to it.
Perhaps because of its. Well,
ct commonness people usually
.runote their colds by calling it
nsilfitis, sinusitis, an upper
spitator'Y infection, a chill
But a cold by any other name is
a cold, And what it lacks in
nullity it makes up for in
uantityl there are about 100
ifferent viruses that can cause it:
Por this reason, the people who
out ht you heart transplants and
rivsis machines -- the medical
icntists haven't yet been able
Gild a cord for' it
Noi that'the cold sufferer has to
-in and bear it, "The various
tuptonls that go to make up the
,nutuorr cold can be dealt with
•cparatcly: for instance, the
tinny nose (physicians prefer to
all it rhinorrhea) can be treated
ith decongestants, although
ley should bc ,used sparingly and
.or a limited timer the accorn-
ulying cough, if there is one,
ith syrup, and the general
,luensiness with some form of
t5A preparation:
Since the common cold results
from viral infection, and so, short
of locking yourself Up alone in a
draft-free, temperktire-con-
trolled MOM all winter, there are
no sure fire guarantees against
catching one.
Not even vitamin • C? Dr.
T.W.Anderson, a researcher at
the University of 'Toronto who has
done several studies of this
vithrniti, Says taut softie itiettASd-
beyond the normal intake of
vitamin C may be useful`
reducing Severity and dilration of
colds. But he beii eves that the
enormous doses recorrimended in
some quarters are unnecessary,
There are other steps you can
take to ward off colds, however,
The best way, says another
Toronto physician who has made
dn extensive study of the Subject ;
is to he physically fit, eat
,ensibly, wear proper clothing
and get adequate rerse,; in ,other
word s to make yourself as
resistant, as lion Viiitittable; as
possible: Iii colder weather, each
breath you take in has to be
-Warmed and humidified, The risk
of infection is greater because'
people Are confined. in smaller
places.
The et:um-J.1ot cold is a tOrtiple
lieobleinwhose .SOititiOri tent-hit:leg
to elude 'medical restrachers,
Even SO 4, a lot of eel& tali be
easily avoided by Maintaining
good •general health:,
Morris Township
council counts dpgs
Adam Sthith will be paid $1.50
per dog for •dogs counted, Morris
Township decided at their
IreWetm. ing
March
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repairs to Lamont Drain, The sale
of part 4 of Lot 70 Plan No. 9 for
Morris Township was authorized
by by-law.
Morris Township agreed that
County apportionment be paid in
two instalments, June 30 and
December 15..
A resolution from "the Town of
Chesley re: closing of Chesley
Memorial Hospital was endorsed.
An application for a tile drain
loan for. $22,500 was accepted.
The road superintendent will
advertise for - tenders for
supplying ' , crushing and
delivering approximately
20,000 cu. yds. gravel. '
, A statement of- proposed
expenditures for public transpor-
with this-
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