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Show A 1 In through THE OUT DOOR COMMENTARY BY PHIL CHIDESTER jBijgitgiSBtfieiai MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1989 SUSC THE THUNDERBIRD ijjlHgliQ taiaiiitaasgiiuaiBvtasintt SBACKUCLSCHOOUfcSPECfA j Jf'i ' 1 iy '& 's M fmt Columnist considers changes A wise philosopher once said something like: Nothing in life is constant except the existence of change. Change is a natural part of the human condition, and nothing echoes more truly this tendency to the new than the relentless advancing of the seasons. Spring may be a time of renewal and rebirth, a chance to face new challenges and successes; but autumn, the dying season, chimes the hour of reflection and withdrawal, a time to look back on past experiences and to mourn those changes that will forever rearrange our lives. October is the perfect opportunity to reminisce: warm afternoons wash up memories of summer fun, and cool nights whisper winter just around the edge of a building. October marks as well the beginning of my fourth (and hopefully final) year at SUSC, and my reflections are likely to bleed is the best over into melancholy at times now. But medicine to beat those silly feelings, and who knows? Maybe by talking through some of our most fearful but necessary autummn changes, we as members of the human race can come to grips with this psychotic season that can otherwise be so refreshing and enjoyable. Fearful Autumn Change No. 1: Im not as young as I used to be. Im not sure why this idea is so pressing on my mind right now; maybe, maybe it was this mornings mile and a half run (can I use that term?) in 45 degree weather for the Fitness for Life class. If you want to feel suddenly Marines and then old, try running laps with a bunch of 1 doing your best to gasp quietly as they pass you by like an old lady on a bicycle. Our instructor stood calmly at the finish line and kept yelling at me to get in the second lane, but I was in the second lane... the whole time! (Do you think I might need to slim down a little?) Fearful Autumn Change No. 2: The SUSC campus doesnt look like it used to. It all started when they ripped out the old fieldhouse and put in a big building named after a vitamin. Then it was a new student center and new parking and new theatre complexes, and now the campus moguls even name buildings after people! Does anybody think the Dixie O. Leavitt Business Building really looks like Dixie Leavitt? Fearful Autumn Change No. 3: Cedar City is fast becoming the entertainment mecca of the world. I grew up in Cedar City, and the best entertainment to be found here in the good old days was throwing rocks at the mailbox on the corner and watching Punch and Judy on the quad. Now we have three theatrical buildings and plays year round and NCAA Division I basketball and Russian gymnasts and floods and PEPCON and Dan Quayle (yes hes coming, no hes not, yes he is... stay tuned!) and Shakespeare and the Summer Games and parades and cavalcades and fairs and jubilees: and the best entertainment to be found in Cedar City in my book is still throwing rocks at the mailbox on the corner and watching Punch and Judy on the quad. So how do we deal with this psychosis, with the changes that autumn thrusts so coldly into our collective faces? The answer lies not in rebellion, but in acceptance; not in doing battle to avoid that good night, but in enjoying those inevitable steps that lead into tomorrow. Take in a play at the Jones Theatre! Catch a nap or two on a couch in the new student center! Tell the freshmen girls your Junior Prom theme song was Stayin Alive by the Bee Gees! By learning to accept the new and the unfamiliar into our lives, we expand our vision of the future and our appreciation of the past in a single glorious instant; and the exercise, especially in the snappy briskness of a cool autumn day, can be a beautiful one indeed. The editor just told me this is my last day on page five; next week they move me to page four. But Ive always been on page five! How can they do this! Commies! Dont they know that the world as we know it will be altered forever if Im moved to page four? 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