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From the Archives If you happen to
be in New Haven around midnight on a Monday night, and your dial
is set for 94.3 FM, you just might pick up some unusual strains.
The music may sound bold and brassy, or maybe it's low-key and mellow,
but chances are you have stumbled upon "Music from the Swamp," one
of many programs broadcast from the studios of the Yale campus radio,
WYBC. Every Monday night, a band sets up its equipment in one of
the back studios of the station and plays its music live over the
air. Thor Moser, a junior in Saybrook and general manager of WYBC,
says, "We have a mixer board so we mix the instruments. It sounds
garage-y, but people enjoy it."
Life really dragged
that first day after vacation, as memories of parties, the sunny South, and sleep
filled the minds of Yale's undergraduates. Tuesday morning, however, students
awakened with a start to read the startling headline in the News: "Beta
Theta Pi's 'Gambling Joint' Raided by Police." A careful perusal of the column
revealed that two slot machines had merely been confiscated by enterprising New
Haven police. Sergeant Reynolds warned, "Any other gambling joints in Yale that
are keeping machines had better get rid of them mighty quick."
Although the "Lost
and Found" department of the News sometimes has insertions under the former
category, the latter is invoked almost never. Thus it is particularly noteworthy
that the first found item in a long time should be of this sort: "Found -- gold
bridge with two teeth attached, in Yale Station yesterday morning. Apply at campus
police office."
The University has recently decided that its members will wear coats and ties all the time in order to satisfy its sense of dignity. The suggestion was made via a letter mailed to all students this past summer, when opposition was understandably disorganized and dispersed. Men returned to find the doors of their dining halls guarded by graduate student monitors, hired by the University to assure uniformity. The atmosphere of
enforcement is offensive to many. At meals, sports jackets and ties are hurriedly
passed from men at the table to those waiting for their meals, and a variety of
weird cardboard ties, high-necked sweaters, and sleight of hand has been developed
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Alumni Magazine, PO Box 1905, New Haven, CT 06509-1905. USA.
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