50 Years Ago
From the Polar Star, Apr. 11, 1958
University Fire Department Operates on Small Budget, Answer Many Calls by Larry
That ramshackle shed just across the sidewalk from the Library that fronts on the University’s main drag is our Fire Department. In its gloomy interior are parked, hung and piled the vehicles and paraphernalia needed to douse fires and to save skins.
Operating on a small budget of $1,500 this spastic outfit answered calls night and day during the past winter to fires of $1,000.00 total damage. These calls included three in the College community. ...
The fire department is headed by Mr. George Knight, a faculty member. Under him are thirteen volunteer students some of whom have two or three year’s service with the fire department. Lonny Bartholomew holds the title of assistant chief and conducts fire inspections. Jack Scoby is crew chief and keeps the vehicles running. “Big Sam” (Stewart Samson) may be seen tending the fire-fighting equipment in the buildings on campus and driving the fire wagon. John Seamonds is jockey of the jeep, while Bill Boucher must content himself with a G.M.C. truck that has a sprained differential. Rank-and-file hose benders are George Colette, “Mike” Gibson, Stan Thomas, Joe Baldwin, Don Dahl, Hugh Dougan, Terry Gorsuch, and Kent Valentine…
25 years ago: the Sun Star, Apr. 8, 1983
Correspondence: Egg Abuse
Recently I’ve been very concerned with a rising problem in our society. It is rarely discussed in public. I think it’s due time the problem be brought out in the public and addressed. What I’m taking about is the rising problem of “Egg Abuse.”…
The majority of eggs in America are beaten between the hours of 7:00-11:00am therefore possibly stemming from a bad night’s sleep. ...
Moving to a local scale, I know for a fact that right here on our very own campus where an organization (called the Commons) that brutally dismembers, beyond recognition, close to 3000 eggs daily. ... I don’t think that the students and community really understand the seriousness of such an action.
Let’s follow the life of a typical egg. First it is stolen from its mother hours after it is born. Then it is crowded with millions of its kind and shipped in a crowded basket to a plant. At the plant it is sorted along with the thousand of other eggs which come through this plant daily. It is then crowded into a box along with eleven other unfortunate companions where it is shipped for miles until it is finally placed in a cooler. While being in the cooler it is eyed and rotated by prospective abusers until it is finally brought with its friends. ... Then it frantically waits its turn to be taken from the box as it sees its companions being taken from the box. It is then finally taken out of its box and tortured; first by a fork then a hot frying pan. It then dies and gets devoured…