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worn jeans to ballgames, plays,
to class, to concerts, to parties,
on dates and just to relax. It
seems that jeans have retained
popularity, while other fads and
fashions have long since passed
into oblivion. As the weather
grows warmer, it is most
probable chat West Georgia
College students will, for the
most part, be seen playing
frisbee, bicycling and just
enjoying the season in their
favorite pair of blue jeans,
whether they be re-cycled,
remodeled, studded, em
broidered, appliqued or cut-off.
Denim can be found in many
shapes and forms. In pants it
can be bell bottomed, straight
legged, overalled, sequioned,
bleached, embroidered, ap
pliqued, or recycled into
dresses, bathing suits, shorts,
pocketbooks and hats. Denim
can even be used in furniture
upholstery and to cover car
seats.
The most popular form of
denim today seems to be in the
“re-cycled” blue jeans. Re
cycled jeans are pants that have
been worn and resold or are
“new” jeans pieced together
from old faded blue jeans. In
Atlanta many prominent stores
such as Saks Fifth Avenue at
Phipps Plaza and boutique
shops at Lenox Square are
selling re-cycled jeans for as
much as $25 more than new
jeans. Ozmas, a sort of antique
boutique shop on Peachtree
street, specializes in re-cycled
blue jeans.
In New York, pants suits of
recycled denim can run as high
as S2OO according to
Newsweek magazine. Doc
Severson, bandleader on the
Tonight show’, recently donned
a S4OO faded denim jacket with
the NBC peacock emblazoned
on the back with rhinestones
Old denim has, in fact,
become so popular that a denim
museum has been founded in
New York The museum, in a
boutique, reportedly exhibits
painter Andy Warhol’s paint
splattered jeans, a jacket worn
by singer Alice Cooper and
numerous outfits with ap
pliqued pictures such stars as
Marilyn Monroe and Clark
Gable.
The material, denim,
originated in France, serge de
Nines, as an all cotton fabric
with a heavy twill weave and
white filling dyed indigo or blue.
Traditionally it was used for
work clothes in the form of
neralls, but it’s durability also
made it desirable as material
for children's apparel. Blue
jeans might conjure images of
farm workers, miners, sailors,
and western American ad
venturers of the 19th century
During the middle sixties,
however, blue jeans became
almost a symbol of the antiwar
sentiment with the youth of
America. Today blue jeans
have become, as a writer for
Time magazine puts it, a
new wave of fashion sweeping
the country." In this same
article it was mentioned that
the price of denim blue jeans
had in many cases tripled in the
last few years.
Blue Jeans
The Older - The Better
Blue jeans and bare feet seem
to go well with warm weather
and, as the temperature climbs,
more and more students can be
observed in denim. In the past
ten years denim has been
connotated with militancy,
hippies, “individualists” and
has, today, reached the status of
fashion.
Blue jeans seem to be the one
most popular mode of dress on
campus, and it appears that
most everyone possesses at
least one pair. Around town,
most of the clothing stores
carry jeans and the prices are a
bit more reasonable in
Carrollton than in most Atlanta
department stores.
“We try to keep the prices fair
on our blue jeans. Some of our
jeans run as high as $lB, but we
do have sales from time to time
to provide pants at reduced cost
to our customers,” said the
owner of one Carrollton
boutique.
On campus, students and
many faculty members can be
seen wearing the great variety
of attires into which denim can
be made. Giggling girls who
appear to have been poured into
skintight bellbottom jeans stroll
to classes. In front of the
student center, by the duckpond
and on the grass mounds in
front of the humanities building
students sit about in blue jeans,
laughing and talking. Several
women wear skirts remodeled
from old denim jeans. Many
men and women wear denim
hats and jackets, some of which
are faded; others are new with
gleaming metallic studs shining
in the sunlight.
“I love wearing blue jeans,”
said one senior co-ed who
sprawled on the grass doing
some homework. “There are no
other kinds of clothes that feel
quite so comfortable as jeans,
and I never worry about sitting
in the grass like I am now when
I am wearing blue jeans IXmim
lasts a long time; I have had
this pair for a couple of years.
They are getting pretty faded
now, but I really like jeans
better when they are a bit faded
and worn out ,” she smiled
“I can remember when my
mother had to make me wear
blue jeans. Now, almost every
pair of pants that I own is a pair
of jeans," laughed a junior
history student. “I guess that I
started enjoying wearing jeans
when it got to be a big thing in
high school and I just kept on
wearing them. When you wear a
pair long enough it gets to be
like a second skin.’ My favorite
denims are so patched that you
almost can’t see the original
material anymore," he said.
“I had a great time em
broidering flowers on my blue
jeans,” said a sophomore
psychology student who was
sitting by the lake, feeding the
ducks. “I worked up my own
design of daisies, forget-me
nots and leaves and worked on it
for several weeks at odd times.
This really adds a personal
touch to one's clothing. A friend
of mine appliques different
types of material onto her
denims and creates pictures of
castles and rainbows. She also
fixes fancy dress’ jeans with
sequins in the shape of stars,”
said the co-ed
In the past few years West
Georgia students, as have
persons in many other colleges
throughout the country, have
Fated Fools Foiled Again
Ode to the ill-fated people who
were cursed with encountering
their first embryonic convulsion
on April 1 or following the
precedent set by my infamous
predecessor, David Wil
lingham, 1 say Happy Birthday
David Badertscher.
My nature may not always be
sympathetic, but pity has
always beset me for the poor
schmucks who have to admit to
being born on April Fool’s
Day.
I mean really who can help
but feel sorry for the person who
is the source of all kinds of
practical jokes, and the
recipient of the most useless
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Students can be seen all over campus in their faded blues.
Students Choose Cribbing
Over Cramming On Campus
The fine art of cheating on
tests is popular these days.
There are many methods
which can be employed in
cheating, or “cribbing” as
professionals call it. Looking on
a neighbor’s test is the begin
ner’s style. Cheat sheets and
writing on parts of the body
involve intermediate cribbing,
and advanced cheating takes in
elaborate codes and schemes.
The simplist form of ob
taining information,that a long
night’s cramming does not
provide, is looking on a fellow
student’s paper. There are
several ways in which this may
be done. Threats can usually
persuade a classmate to share
facts and figures. Some often
used threats are: “Hey, creep!
Let me see your test or I’ll
break every bone in your body,”
and “Leave your test way over
on the right side of the desk
where I can see it or I’ll tell your
fiance about Cynthia.”
Should the cheater not wish to
intimidate his or her friends,
casual glancing on nearby
exams might be a good alter
native. The big problem in using
someone else’s material,
however, is that the someone
else may be even stupider than
the cribber. Thus the in
formation would prove useless
and the only things gained
would be two identically bad
tests and eyestrain from at
tempting to read someone else’s
handwriting Also in the
presents on his birthday? While
the people who celebrate their
birthdays on normal days
receive nice gifts, the April
Fool’s birthday baby receives
nothing but gag gifts.
Pity the unfortunate kid who
has to admit to his buddies that
he didn’t get the fishing rod he
wanted for his birthday. This
fact alone may have some
tramatic effect on the poor
child, but how about when he
has to admit that instead of the
rod, he got $lO from his parents
and a Baby Chrissy (you know
the doll that walks, talks, wets,
and spits in your face when
glancing method one should
remember not to write the other
person’s name on one’s own
paper.
After the beginniner has had
some of this type of experience
he is ready to go on to the cheat
sheet style of intermediate
cribbing. Cheat sheets usually
contain as much detailed in
formation as can be con* 1
pressed onto a sheet of paper
the size of an aspirin. Practice
will most likely be necessary in
the art of “tiny writing.” Some
students have been known to
have written Hamlet’s entire
“to be, or not to be” soliloquy on
a bit of paper the size of a
postage stamp. It is important
to remember that the smaller
the sheet, the less likely it is to
be noticed.
A variation on the cheat sheet
method is writing the desired
information on the palms of
one’s hands. This can be a poor
form of cribbing, however,
especially when the cheater is
inclined to sweat profusely. All
the cheater may have is a
smeary, sloppy hand.
Ingeneous students have found
a way to overcome this problem
by spraying deodorant on the
hands prior to writing.
At this point it may be
assumed that the cheater is
ready to go on to advanced
cribbing. Once again one may
work with a fellow’ student; this
time, however, teamwork, and
not one-sided cheating as
beginners Use, is important.
THE WEST GEORGIAN APRII I. I7S
malfunctioning) from his
sisters. How uncool!
These gifts are of no value to
the owner and never fail to pile
up in a box or drawer usually
titled appropriately the “Ha!
Ha! Box."
Getting away from the nor
mal practical jokes one plays
on April Fool’s Day, the Aries
born on this day has to take the
jokes in good humor and
laughingly swallows the onion
flavored gum which gags him
He does so because he hopes
that beyond the silly gift lies a
normal, useful present. And
once again the jokes on him.
Each member or the team (two
people to an entire class)
memorizes a certain amount of
information. Then when
another member of the team
becomes stuck on a particular
question, he can signal a part
ner who can ,in turn, tap out,
by means of code, the desired
answer.
The problem in the tapping
method is that teachers begin to
catch on rather quickly when an
entire class begins to sound like
a telegraph station. It is, at
times, preferable l to devise a
system of signals such as
running a hand through one’s
hair, coughing, sneezing,
hiccuping, winking, burping
and scratching. This may also
attract the instructor’s at
tention.
One of the most innovative
cheating methods was used in
an old Steve Roper comic strip.
A girl wore a wig covering a
small walkie-talkie with an ear
phone. Her friend, with another
walkie-talkie, proceeded to read
off the answers to the test.
Trouble arose, though, and the
little receiver short circuited
causing the poor girl to literally
“flip her wig.”
Cheating is a talent which
must be developed carefully
with much planning. In the long
run, for fool proof cheating, so
much time must be devoted to
perfecting one’s technique, that
it is simpler just to study. It is
not nearly, however, as
creative.
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