Word: contact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pugliese, known within SCA circles as the knight Sir Patri Du Chat Gris, said, "Some people join SCA as an escape. For others, it's a way of coming into contact with other people who share an interest in the Middle Ages...
...nights. But to an outsider they very much resemble freshman mixers everywhere in the country. Large, smoky rooms, reeking of beer and shuddering to the sound of loud music, are often filled with revelers shoulder to shoulder. Clusters of boys approach clusters of girls like amoebas making tentative contact. The approach is sometimes individual. At one frat party a red-faced boy holding a beer edges closer and closer to an apparently preoccupied brunette. "Hi," he says, over the music. "Where are you from?" "Wheaton College," she says, giving him nothing. "Oh," says the boy. "What's your major...
...they might effect their departments. Thomas G. Ricketts, head tutor in Philosophy, said last week he hadn't "looked at the legislation yet or discussed it with Faculty Council members." He explained he did not think the legislation applied to a small department like Philosophy where student-faculty contact occurs informally. Consequently, Ricketts said he does not plan to set up the required student-faculty committee nor press each Philosophy professor to teach a tutorial...
...Committee on Methods of increasing the Intellectual Interest and Raising the Intellectual Standards of Undergraduates)--declared that the rank of tutor and lecturer should not be separated because "There is a growing belief that mere lecturing is not teaching, and every professor will, therefore, wish to have such personal contact with his students as the tutorial method implies." Apparently professors today suffer no such yearnings...
...each bout etiquette dictates that each fencer salute the director (referee) and his opponent with his blade. Vastola says "when I salute my opponent I give him a long, hard stare. It doesn't have to be too menacing and malicious although sometimes that helps too. You maintain eye contact. I remember earlier in the year against North Carolina seeing my opponent nervously avert my stare. That boosts my confidence and drains...