Back in the days of hippies everywhere avoiding the draft by staying enrolled in some college curriculum, the term liberal arts actually meant LIBERAL everything.?ÿ Hey, let's burn down this campus building to make the statement we are all idiots.?ÿ Hey, let's refuse to attend class more than one day per month.?ÿ Hey, let's all load up and help some other university burn down one of their campus buildings.?ÿ Hey, let's all find some minor elected office that no one wants to run for and file to run for it.?ÿ Hey, let's uh, psychedelic, baby, uh, uh, uh, pass that joint over here, uh, uh, uh, I'm hungry.?ÿ Hey, I know a dude who can get us mailman uniforms so we can make up stuff, put it in envelopes, then go all over town putting it all in random people's mail boxes while we take their real mail and burn it at the next pro-(anything insane) rally. Hey, what say all you babes have a 24-hour contest to see who can get the most guys to have sex with them by knocking on their dorm rooms and saying, "Screw me right here, right now or I"m knocking on the next door down the hall." Hey, let's all strip down and jump in the giant fountain by the library.?ÿ Hey, did you ever wonder what would happen if you lit a cat's tail on fire?
There were many normal liberal arts students, but no one could see them for the crazies.?ÿ Some of the crazies with the most bizarre views of the world were employed by the university.?ÿ I made the mistake of enrolling in Political Science 101.?ÿ As George Gobel put it so succinctly, " Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?"?ÿ The?ÿ Prof was a bra-burning, anti-everything that existed five years ago, militant feminist, man-hater.?ÿ I had heard such people existed, but, I thought they were all in a zoo somewhere.
Many of the classes taught in the College of Arts and Parties, er, uh, I guess it was officially the College of Arts and Sciences, were graded on attendance.?ÿ Attend every class session for an A, miss a class and get a B, miss two classes and get a C and so forth.?ÿ The prof in my economics class had a TA whose job seemed to consist of nothing but determining which seats were empty at each class session.?ÿ Seating was assigned based on alphabetical order of last names.?ÿ An empty seat in the front row might be Wendy Bartholmew.?ÿ An empty seat in the back row might be Emily Young.?ÿ Smart people had friends show up and fill that otherwise empty seat.?ÿ No one would know the difference, except those on either side, and they would ask if that person would like to fill their seat sometime.?ÿ With something like 300 seats, no one really knew anyone else.
