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rooms cleaned tonight and you have to the consensus.
Golf Course. be in bed by 11:30." "They ordered pizza for us last
"' At night, though, as they retreat to She wasn't getting their attention. night," said one camper. "And
their dens in South Quad and East Undaunted, the campers kept on buz- they've had some fun stuff like the
Quad, the campers lose none of their zing. carnival downstairs. Today and
vigor. They're still buzzing. "SO MOVE IT!" she screamed. yesterday they had lip-singing in the
basement. We got up and acted like
"IT'S AMAZING," said Deby "DO YOU SEEwhat I mean," com- stars.
Wilson, a South Quad Camper Control "Some people were making fools of
Agent (alias counselor). "They have themselves, though."
, reservors of energy." 'Oh, y the way," blurted a shir-4
rWilson was riding the South Quad The (South Quad) tless youngster. "The food here
elevator last week to the fifth floor, pizza tastes like stinks. Itisbad. Iswear."
where she has been assigned the task HOW BAD IS IT?
of restraining the inhabitants of the spaghetti with crust "It's very bad," said one camper.
5600-5700 corridors. r "Kids got sick," said a second cam-
"I'm sorry I was late coming oflit. per.
down," said Wilson, an attractive, Added camper number three: "Did
wide-eyed LSA junior. "But some kid you ever have liver? And anchovies?
pushed every button there is, and I - uThat's what it tastes like - liver and
stopped at every floor." cam per anchovies."
WILSON said the campers are high- Camper number four gave a perfect
F ^ ' strung even in the elevators, vomiting imitation, complete with
"Oh, ya," she said. "They play in sound effects and acute facial ex-
the elevators, they pull the emergen pressions.
Scy stop . .. plained the disgruntled little camper.
"Once we had 30 really big guys get The kids still kept on cackling, so Concluded camper number five:
stuck in the elevator for an hourand a Wilson resorted to the ultimate Cam- "The pizza tastes like spaghetti with
half to two hours." per Control weapon - the dreaded crust on it."
But luckily, Wilson was not among whistle. With just an inhale and an
them. exhale, Wilson made the corridor It was now time for the campers to
"Thank God," she said. "I would have sound like the inside of a school bell. go to bed. They had no choice because
-44died." "Now you know exactly what I South Quad became lightless at 11:30
Walking into the 5600-5700 corridors mean," said the perturbed camper, p.m. However, most of the campers
was like entering a beehive, as dozens his ears ringing from the tweet. would lay awake until their daily
of campers, average age 13, buzzed Another Camper Control Agent, "resevoirs of energy" had been
throughout the halls. Their loud chat- Mike Mannino, came to Wilson's aid. depleted. As the campers themselves
Daily Photo by DARRIAN SMITH ter ricocheted off the walls until the "Here comes the head honcho, admitted, they would fidget in their
corridor was filled with an ear- MIke," the kid said. "He told us beds until 1,2, sometimes 2:30 in the
Summer campers wait for the pizza man in front of South Quad. damaging din. yesterday not to get on the big, bad morning.
side of Big, Bad Mike."
ONE CAMPER said it was this Needless o say, that little guy will "Camper Alert" ends August 23
'hogs OvrTh ere?" noisy every evening "Except last have a lot to write about in his letter when the last of the young hockey
night when someone threw a smoke home. However, most of the campers players skate out of town. Then
Camper Justin Hegedus learned you're ot there. Do you under- bomb into the hallway." said they got along well with Wilson southern Central Campus will return
more than just the basics at this stand that? If you're there, you're Many of the 5600-5700 inhabitants and Mannino. to normal. Then it will be free from
r j s h d ? r yy e - basbtanthe "Invasion of the Summer Cam-
year's Michigan Baseball Camp. here. If I was over there, I'm here were dressed in baseball "THEY'RE PRETTY cool," was pers"
One coach seemed to teach him the - which is there. So if here can't paraphenalia - a Baltimore Orioles'
modern day version of Abbott and be there, then you have to be cap, a "Property of the Detroit
Costello's "Who's on First?"'It can here." Tigers" t-shirt - so this must have
be called "Who's Over There?" But if you're here, you're here. If been the baseball-camper hallway.
you're there, you're there. "If this were the wrestling hallway,
"So try and figure this out," said "Ya, but say you're right here. you'd smell it," shouted a youngster
Hegedus. "If you're there, then You say, 'I'm here, not over there.' through the noise.
you're not here, right? But if But when you get over there, The corridor's walls were plastered
you're there, then you're not really you're not over there anymore. with Camper Control signs. "Bad
there. You're over here. Get the pic- Campers Get A One-Way Ticket
"Think. If you're there, then tore?" Home," warned one sign. "Ripping
Down Signs is A Felony In This Hall,"
proclaimed another. "Absolutely No
Pizza Orders After 10:30," read a
A small group of campers obviously
hadn't seen the last sign, as they gave
709 Packard (Near State) Domino's a call at five minutes to
eleven. Wilson talked to them about
the pizza violation, but one small,
W K S E Ableach-blond camper thought she was
TH EEK? PECIAL making too big a deal of the matter.
"Sometimes Deby can be really
nice," he confided, "but other times
she can be cranky."
Homogenized Milk Baked Ham THE BOY denied that Wilson's
$4 flf $4 00 crankiness was the result of the cam-
9. a gallon £$ * 9 lb. pers'rowdiness.
"Oh, no," he said with aswag of the
head. "We are really great. I'm
Extra Large Grade A Eggs serious. We really are. But we get
mistreated."
At 11 p.m. Wilson tried to round up
$ 8 doz. the kids for room-cleaning and bed
check. But that was the toughest task Associated Press
since all the king's horses and all the YrWW1
Hours: Sunday-Thursday 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 a.m. king's men had to put Humpty Dum- American Bill Rodgers, who won the British Open when it was last
Friday & Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 a.m. pty back togetheragain. played here in Sandwich, England in 1981, gives a big yawn before
"You guys. Yo," she shouted yesterday's practice round.
through the chatter. "I need these