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News
Family Weekend proves to be a success
MC brings recycling
Voting and debates
Presidential election discussion is continued
October Mentoring Month
Editorial: The just-us league
An open letter to campus

Features
Editor's review: 'The Shape of Things' as first production
Fresh 2 MC
Senior Spotlight

'Blindness' offers ideas, comes up short on answers
Old sound breaks no new ground
Weekly Top 10
Weekly Shout-Outs

ZBT Open Mic Night fills the air with music
Scotsmen's first show
Comedian cracks up crowd

Sports
Crawford leaves
Soccer teams face recent game defeats
MC volleyball team smashes Grinnell College 3-1
Golf team places 13th in the Milikin Fall Invitational
Tennis defeated in matches by Beloit and Lawrence
Scots undefeated with Family Weekend win
MC XC continues to perform well

Editorial: The just-us league
 

By: Ryne Tate
Contributing Writer


 

    
     I’m lying in bed. Falling asleep while counting the steps of a freshman above me waking up for an eight o’clock class. I snicker to myself as I roll over and set my alarm clock for two thirty in the afternoon. I close my eyes and doze away. I wake up and shower. The cold water offsets the nicotine craving. I walk out of the Winbigler and glance at the stack of bikes next to the stairs. I walk toward Wallace and feel the ground shake. The sky lights up with an eerie spark as a man falls from the roof of Stockdale. The man stands and shrugs off inches in front of me. My cigarette falls down to the ground beneath me. A redheaded vixen shrieks down from above Stockdale at the man who is literally steaming below. "Palin doesn’t represent me!" she yells as the hot-head launches himself up and rages aloud "At least she can cook, Riveter, I’m sending you back to the kitchen."

    I run into McMike hall. As I get inside, a young woman asks me where my escort is. I tell her there is a battle raging outside. She shoves me towards the door. Suddenly a forceful burst of air comes blowing through the hallway. I turn and look to my left and see a man dressed in black blowing musty warm air at us with an incredible strength, both physically and in potency. We are blown back into the hallway. We are tossed aside by a man standing in a tight white suit. He runs toward the other man screaming. "McCain is full of hot-air too, Traditionalist!" The white knight turns to walking flame as he lunges at the winded villain trying to mutter, "Is this what you call diplomacy, Liberator?" I jump to my feet and run out toward Broadway as Wallace explodes in flames. Twenty costumed figures are battling on the front lawn. I look on, trying to decide if I should run for my life or try to stop them before they destroy the college. Jerry Justice comes running out of Poling and grabs me. We rush to his car and drive away. I curse, I cry, Jerry keeps his eyes on the road. I ask him what in the hell is going on? He tells me. The Conservative Coalition has come out of retirement to face the new Liberal Legion. And as they battle over the hearts of students they are tearing down the institution.

     I wake in a cold sweat. It’s only eleven. I go out in the hallway to get a sip of water. I hear a freshman talking about the financial bailout and they ask me what I think of free-market economy. I tell him I am going back to bed. He laughs and tells me that a liberal would just sleep on it. I shut my door and sit at my desk. Back to schoolwork.

 

 

 


 

 

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