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Show The Daily L'uh Chronicle, Thursday. December 7. Page five 1978 Santa's 'fed up' , seeks humanistic alternatives to Christmas splurging Santa Gaus is coming 10 town and he"s mad as hell. Don't be surprised this year if you see the familiar jolly old gentleman in red picketing your local shopping center. ITuough the efforts of a national group, Alternatives, the image of Santa Claus will be used by forces opposing "the whole gaggle of gadgets, trinkets, tos and extravagances" that characterize Christmas. According to sources at Alternatives, good old St. Nick is totally fed up with the gross commercialization of the Christmas celebration. "I am tired of being taken for a ride every year by people w ho are out to make a buck on Christmas," said alternative Santa at a recent press conference in Washington, D.C. "I am fed up with seeing my image and reputation being used to hype Noreko shavers, Ford trucks and artificial Christmas trees. I've had it! I'm getting out! Christmas is going to be a time for me to get back to helping people and their social needs," Santa said. d Alternatives The Washington, calls itself a lifestyle-educatiogroup. It has Alternative Halloween already sponsored and Alternative Thanksgiving campaigns in an attempt to divert some of the seasonal splurges to causes concerning peace and justice, especially hunger projects. The group admits to being half satirical and half serious, but they are quite serious about recruiting alternative Santas from university campuses, activist groups and churches around the country. The volunteers will be engaged in a wide range of activities to make the public aware of its choices at Christmastime. The national goal of the group's National Alternative Celebrations Campaign is to divert up to 510 million to social justice programs this Christmas (out of an estimated !0 billion total Christmas consumption). According to Alternatives, the campaign has people pledged to undertake alternative Christmas projects in more than 350 communities around the country. The Alternative Celebrations Campaign is encouraging people to reduce their consumption levels and redirect some of the time, energy and money, typically spent on the standard Christmas-shoppin- g routine, to imjxirtant social concern projects. These projects include national and local efforts concerning food and housing, human rights, social and economic justice, environmental protection, disarmament and appropriate technologies. Besides the alternative Santa movement, local activities being planned include alternative Christmas festivals, community gift making (and gift recycling) jamborees, TV and radio campaigns to counter media p commercialism, and Third World and -- self-hel- crafts fairs. In Cleveland, Charline Watts, whose husband is a minister, organized an alternative Christmas crafts fair. Sponsored churches, the fair by 40 Cleveland-are- a raised $4,000 for craftsmen in Appalachia D.C.-base- n 3. Home for Tom On this bus, people crammed like cattle, I am trying to sleep. I We are all leg-wea- ry The woman who shares this seat dreams of the grandchild who will hate her old ways and the gift she has under the seat her legs tight around the bright box. Somewhere in Nebraska I dream you, brother, waiting for this bus to bring me d and hungry, home. fog-eye- SHIRTS Sport Shirts At Their Best m -- U1 Appointment registration will be conducted December 4 through December 1 1 from 8:00a.m. until 6:00 p.m. weekdays in the Union Building Auditorium. The following is the schedule for students who did not advance register and is based on the letters of the last name. Students will not be allowed to register in advance of their scheduled appointment. 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Annex Hasl-Hi- lk Martha Wickelhaus P Come Halm-Ha- sk Something pulls this bus across the night road, slick-ice- d and snow, into Iowa. I smoke and watch day you your card for the the Benefits forwarding Section of personnel. 3ra and sore, is the . . final election of retirement plan to your departmental representative for to December You wanting to pull me in. The station pushes around you, people want to connect. We are all we have. road sleepers. must return contact the National Alternative 723-827- STAFF AND FACULTY. December 7, 1978 e Celebrations Campaign, 1500 Farragut Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20011; or call (202) !!! ATTENTION ALL ELIGIBLE ? . Claus. He is trying to gel you lo "Kick the commercial Christmas habil." mm, fourth edition of the Alternative Celebrations Catalog has just been released and is filled with dozens of ideas and articles on alternative celebrations, simple and rational living, and various social justice concerns. 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