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Alpine Dolphins Zen Mind, Beginners Mind By Kevin Cowan Staff Reporter ve been a student for 18 1/2 years; a student, that is, in an academic sense. I now plan to remain a student in a less formal and dogmatic manner, forever. It’s what I know best. Two-and-one-half years ago I knew I wanted to remain a student, but the fact that I knew things about different eras, civilizations and fast-food economies, yet had seen no coastline of the North American continent -- save for a Padre Island sandbar - and much less the rest of the planet, made me neurotic, disillusioned and over stressed. In a near fit of mental collapse, I left to travel. Hoboism is a fantastic form of stress reduction - and not nearly so guilt-ridden as a few other "isms” I leave unmentioned. If you feel guilt and disdain for every human excretion you ooze, there is a possibility you are a member of one of these groups. If not, you are either psychotic or well-adjusted. Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference. But I’m ram bling. My point here is this: That I have spent a vast majority of my life collecting various odd and eclectic mental tools from various teachers, friends, street-corner prophets, professors, writers, advertisers, preachers and military-, political and economic-minded scholars -- they articulate, with any luck, pre cise definitions of each tool, or idea, but they never tell me how it all works together to produce a creative and critical, though well functioning, system of thinking. They never tell me how to use, together, all the different tools I’ve been given. The proper tool is important for creating quality in art and cogni tion, yet few people today in our increasingly simply constructed complex society, realize that men tal tools can be used for more than droll parly talk. People are taught that you can’t really build anything with menial tools, that you need to build physi cal projections of those tools, but the truth is this: You can. Everything around us: Govern ment, money, religion, language, music and comedy wasat one point or several points in the course of human history made up by a single individual or a group of humans working together building tools from images in their brains via their opposable thumbs and dexterous fingers. In short, we made up everything around us. Sort of like a game of pom-pom pullaway. See ALPINE on 15 Til£Hin d-Do Yoo Kncvi WHAT vc^r Children <ane P _c4ua*x TV?* I a weucsERWE. message F(\C r~\ Ferreu. HbjPqlooical Hospital «J pipYou ^£,ARTHE^ CfN£ AS>oor TMETHrt.ee HONDfcEP P^kn^O^ Has your, chil.d beeh TELUNC, A.LOT CF POKE'S Lately... OR WEARING FLCFPY 5WCES CR EXTRA* LAR^iE TIES’ • <^b Mas Vooa cmub been Honking ho\^ns ^earing excessive Make up (.ESPECIALLY Wh,10 ? ]? So, HE ORSHE r7AY B£ $uFFER\<^C, PROP7... wjm.. CLOWN . ADDICTION! US NO L/SOGHING MATTER'. Foil r^O«£ »<SF’ORfV\ftTl OM i-8CC“24Z* £02.0 Peed Corporation Is Interested In Hiring A Few Articulate, Ambitious College Students Who Need Practical Work Experience To Put On Their Resume Peed Corporation is an information processing and publishing company providing on line and print information to four diffeient industries and consumers. Due to rapid growth and expansion, Peed Corporation is seeking full and part time sales representatives. The position is in the circulation-sales department renewing and selling subscriptions to our current subscribers over the telephone. This is an opportunity to earn excellent money and acquire valuable sales skills with one of Lincoln's fastest grow ing companies. For more information call 477-8900 ext 438 or apply in person to Peed Corporation 120 YV Harvest Drive (I Of h St exit 1-180 Mo. to Fletcher turn left, left side of Fletcher, only 5 minutes from city campus) Meyers is a freshman art major at Hastings College. | SENIORS Take Pride In Your University Give to the Senior Gift to improve the area around Mueller Tower. Leave a lasting reminder from: THE CLASS OF VO For Further Information Call the Student Foundation 472-215!
