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Show Just Stuff by Jan A few weeks ago it was the "dreaded red spot," which vanished as mysteriously as it appeared. Now I've contracted something else, but I'm, not the only one who has it. It's almost at an epidemic stage here at Utah State, and I know this isn't the only place It's hit! Yep, Spring Fever! The bug started to bite towards the end of Winter Quarter when we had a few blue-sky, sunshine days, but as soon as Spring quarter began, almost like clockwork, just about every red blooded American student here got Spring Fever. We're not two weeks into the quarter and already the "call to fun in the sun" overrules the "call to duty" in the classroom. Class numbers become inconsistent. There might be 37 students one day, and 23 the next, and as we progress further into the quarter there is an increase in the dwindling away of class numbers. Spring is a time when winter enthusiasts try to stretch out their winter play, while those excited for summer try to get a head start on the season. When you walk down a street you can see a car with skis on the rack, another with a kyack strapped to the top, one truck loaded with a motorcycle and another one with a snowmobile in the back. People head up the canyon clad in anything from snow gear, ready to hit the ski slopes, to bikinis and shorts to soak in the rays. Sitting In a stuffy, furnace-always-going classroom doesn't sound quite as fun as tossing a frisbee on the quad, slipping down a ski slope or merely taking a snooze out In the sun. Just because you don't happen to be a student, don't think you're immune. It can get anyone; a lawyer couped up in an office, a doctor in a clinic, a secretary sitting at a desk day after day or a housewife managing a house, anyone is fair game! Have you caught it? |