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Show Gravy Bowl Council considers casinc Every hour during class breaks, aspiring young University acrobats perform a thrilling spectacle on swings and highwires far above the circulation level. (Safety nets are strung from pillars on the fourth-level fourth-level mezzanine so they don't obstruct ob-struct the flow of students trafficking traf-ficking in book returns and checkouts check-outs below.) Supervising the extravaganza as master of ceremonies is the stu-dentbody stu-dentbody president in striped suit and tails. Members of the Public Affairs Panel man the fifth-level soapboxes to draw the crowds to sideshow attractions set up in the foyers and other little-used nooks and corners. Tophatted members of the student stu-dent Finance Ministry guard the ticket gates, where every admission admis-sion (free to bonafide students) is recorded at the turnstiles. Gay streamers, floodlights, band music, and confetti add a festive mood to an otherwise quiet, musty setting. Throughout the halls and study areas, coeds from the Organizations Organiza-tions Council are hawking homemade home-made popcorn, handing out cups of sparkling cyclamate-free beverages, beve-rages, and in other ways brightening brighten-ing the student's weary day in their fur-trimmed mini-outfits. Active members of Programs Committee, dressed in;, clown costumes, emc puppet shows at seal;; mation desks and ;? long lines at giant slide: the wide stairways. Outside, a stearrnfc on the patio draws it the spectacle going on-concrete on-concrete circus tent, in" of the congress t Faculty Relations oil" to weary lowerclasac- . professors on circus e;;-donkeys. e;;-donkeys. "The whole prat brighten gray, winli) -often blanket this & .student zealot said. "It-a "It-a touch of gaiety 6 mundane studies. Er campus could beta tive in producing, installing in-stalling the another credit on tic-attract tic-attract prospective-after prospective-after graduation." : But Student Regit cil cited dour fa" : would interfere w!; not wishing to see J;: building steal the -' official student a; Union Directorate & Executive Council toed the measure- BY GLEN LEONARD It takes an imaginative Executive Execu-tive Council to drown out campus apathy by applying the adventurous adventu-rous techniques of Las Vegas casino ca-sino operators. An enthusiastic council discussed dis-cussed just such a plan at a fanciful fanci-ful assembly held in temporary quarters in the Annie Clark Tanner Tan-ner Room on the fifth level of the Marriott Library and Learning Center on the University Campus. It seems a student delegate to the International Institute on Campus Lethargy held in Las Vegas recently noticed the drawing draw-ing power of a casino which entertains enter-tains its customers with-among other things-regular circus acts. The usual gambling tables and one-armed bandits cover the ground floor of the huge tent-shaped tent-shaped building. And on two or three balcony levels above the gaming level, carnival-type concessions conces-sions supply an added attraction. Our legendary delegate noticed particularly that the casino balconies bal-conies were arranged something like the fourth and fifth level walkways in the University Library. Li-brary. Spectators along the railings rail-ings have an unobstructed view of the circus trampoline and high-wire high-wire acts which are scheduled at regular intervals in the vast, un-j un-j used space above the main level. "Imagine what excitement j could be infused into University 5 hfe," he thought, "if similar use - were made of the atrium in the University Library. Never again will students gaze disinterestedly out into that vacant air space!" His plan came alive as he unfolded un-folded it before the council. The circus has come to the Utah campus: |