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ASB BUDGET
EDITORIAL (Cont'd From Page 1)

ments, Children's Christmas Party,
Yearbook. Film Committee, Schol-
Beautiful arship Fund, and Student Loan Pay-
back.
The Student Loan Payback Fund,
Womanhood although unfamiliar. to most, is very
beneficial for the student. When a
COC student buys an ASB card he
By Ted Black or she is entitled to use the Student
Males, unite! The revolution has Loan Payback. With the loan the
come. Will you shrink back in your student has 30 days in which to
houses? Will you allow the tragedy repay the fund.
to go on? There is a noble cause for Also beneficial to the student is
which you can fight. The battlefield the Student Insurance, which took a
will be where the true men will drastic increase within the previous
stand. It will be a battle in which no year from $6,300.00 to $9,000.00.
blood is lost. The only tears will be When each student buys their ASB
those of happiness. If the men let us card, they are entitled to insurance
down, the struggle will be long and coverage.
hard. If they join the cause, there Another important section of the
will be no struggle at all. The battle budget is the Bonelli (Homecoming)
is for the freedom of the long Scholarship Fund. This fund gives
enslaved female half of the human one student from each of our local
race. For too long, women have High Schools, Hart and Canyon, a
been tied with the bonds of socializa- $100.00 scholarship to attend COC.
tion. Throughout the budget meetings,
Men have been fooling themselves the Senate's first concern was to
too long. It seems that the American establish a complete program that
male's ideal woman has traditionally would benefit all students.
been a cross between a work horse
and an angel. This unique combina-
tion produces a person who has a
voluptuous body, a rather dull Book Review
mind, and an unlimited amount of
ambition for boring, hard work. The
thing that most men have not yet Humor . .. has remained on our planet By Becky Viets
realized is that with this type of a for quite some time now, it At times, the swift, short sen-
woman they have only been getting hasn't even made a single tences of Ragtime suggest the
half of a human being. In most cases A Martian's effort to look for an apartment pristine flicker of a silent film - at
the "ideal" woman has been devoid or a socially acceptable means others, the grim sharp angles of a
of any real creativity and spontan- Chronicles of earning a living. Psy- tainted history.
eity for living an interesting, excit- chological counselling is, in The mystery and magic of Harry
ing life. Most of these ideal women By Carl F. Heinz my opinion, indeed advisable. Houdini, the beauty of Evelyn
have had little self-confidence, no (This summer we Ameri- Progressive thinker/ Nesbit, the revolution of Emiliano
sense of leadership, little idea of cans accomplished a most science fiction writer Brad Zapata, the power of Henry Ford
what they think, and almost no amazing feat: we landed two Ray bury, author of "The and Sigmund Freud, all intertwine,
choice to be able to do anything interplanetary terrestrial Earthling Chronicles" and touching the lives of three families.
about it. · probes, both nicknamed "Vik- "The Illustrated Martian," has The families are then knitted to-
(Cont'd on Page 3) ing", on the surface of Mars. gone so far as to suggest that gether in a tale that glitters with all
But what do the Martians the thing could possibly be a the innocence and corruption pre-
themselves think of this little machine, built and sent by a sent at the turn of the century.
THE CANYON CALL intrusion? Here is a Martian- semi-intelligence from Earth. With a delicious mixture of truth
Published twice monthly scientist's report on Viking However, this is not highly and fiction, E.L. Doctorow's delight-
by journalism students at and its very unusual be- probable, for what we know of ful novel comes alive with the
College of the Canyons. havior.) Earth to date leads us to ragtime tunes of Scott Joplin haunt-
Editorial opinions ex- Regarding this strange, believe that it is a desolate, ing its pages. The left hand pounds
pressed in this publication silent creature which has hostile place with its surface out the beat of historical change. It
are those of the writer and landed so mysteriously on our dominated by insurance sales- drums from the immigrant to the
not necessarily those of the planet, we have completed men and Denny's restaurants. black families, from the aristocracy
college. our series of experiments on Life as we know it couldn't of J.P. Morgan to the anarchy of
EDITOR the animal, and taking the possibly survive under such Emma Goldman. The right hand is
Carl F . Heinz data that we managed to extreme conditions. in eloquent harmony, fabricating
MANAGING EDITOR gather into account, I believe Some of us here at the the texture and color of vignettes,
Robynn Huntsinger we can safely conclude that Research Center feel rather which bond the characters together
we don't have the slightest sorry for the lonesome crea- in what will lead to an explosive
FEATURE EDITOR idea what it is. It is not a bug ture and have even oc-
Becky Viets climax.
like ourselves, although it has casionally asked if it would Doctorow's book is a collection of
SPORTS EDITORS many similar morphological care to join us for coffee. But deftly corresponded anecdotes,
Bob B ru nsell , Bob Parker characteristics, and rest as- it has always refused and just which are beguiling to read, magni-
PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR sured it is not potentially gone on playing wistfully in ficant in style, and laced with the
Don Atkinson hazardous to the health of our the sand. We have considered aroma of fish fries and summer ice
population, for our test that maybe it needs a mate, cream. Underlining all, is the des-
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS/
REPORTERS results show undeniably that and rumor has it that another perate cry of a torn nation, faintly
Yvonne Fortine, Jim Her- it is not a cockroach, a one of its species has landed echoing the tunes of ragtime.
nan , Jim James, Kathy journalist, or any other lower somewhere on the other side
McGinnis , Sharon Mills, form of a disease-carrying of the planet. There's hope
John Simas, Barbara Sterry pest. Therefore, it is my yet. We are presently trying Editor's Note: Students who
speculation that it is some to teach the thing how to be feel compelled to give a rebut-
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Don Atkinson , Carl F. form of life extremely foreign somewhat useful, showing it tal on any of the opinions
Heinz , Jim Hernan . to our own. It carries out no how to play poker and how to expressed in this paper, or
biological functions that we say, "Can I take your order, comment on any issue relating
CARTOONISTS can clearly observe, and has please?" Our progress with it to college life, are encouraged
Ted Black , Mark Guy
little if any concept of how to has been slow, but we'll keep to do so. Submit all material
ADVISER fill out the proper immigration Mars informed if anything to S-108, Tuesdays between
Dorothy I. Nielsen forms, and though the thing new should develop. 1:00-2:00.