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ask yours elv es IF you can do it ; ask yourselvesWHY can I do it" .T he same sort of doom han gs over th e EEperiod on T uesday morning, but here a t lea stwe sho w some stru ggle. It's amazing, all the thingswe sho uld h ave learnt during EE , Grade I . Tomake up for their deficiencies some actually dareto ask (}.uestion s (guess who). Even Della sta rt sa d iSCUSSIOn frequently, wh ereas Karl never failsto make a fool of himself with hi s ignorance.During all this T hom pso n has eaten a cou ple oforanges an d Scr ew some bananas and as a token otfriendship they exchange the peels. Also Howiehas just thrown a fit, and Eric's note bo ok with it .across th e room becau se Screw ha s tickl ed himbehind the ear; Eric doesn't even look up fromhis cross-word. Carr must ha ve said or done som e­thing peculiar because Hogg gets a laughing fit,spreading his cold ove r the bl okes in fro n t ofhim. Aft er a wh ile he decides h e has had en ou ghand stab s himself with hi s slide r ule. H ogg collapses foll owed by Deli and his seat. Out of blueTaylor sin gs ou t that Woollard don e it a ndWoolla rd wa nts to know what. Al never loo ks u pfro m his pap er. It 's a happy gar nering. but one ofm ake -belief becau se it ha s been mentioned ofteneno ug h th at we ha ven't got a chan ce. Bu t wene ver give up, eve n during HE.HE ma inly conti nues on a straigh t path becauseof Swales' ink su pply. If we were at least told tha twe a re to get th e H E and EE diplom as as well itwould make it so much easier. During a sentimentalmoment a genuine sym pa thy tow ardthe mech anicals and electrica ls ove rco mes me.How ca n th ey pos sibly build goo d cars or TVsets with so many efficiencies and power fact ors?Wednesda y's Slats. is reserved for Thom son . Hisconfirming "T hat's right, th at's what I get" tellsus that we can acce p t wh atever has been said . Ifit wasn 't for Taylor the wh ole class would be aperfect example of a united front; only he wantsto try the problems by himself first. Petherremains neu tral, he doesn't want to break withTaylor. Screw in between has been to an otherball and is telling Murray all about it. So Murraydecides to ask Sill to help him look for a glrlfriend.All Sill wants is a green biro.With Thursday arrives the climax for this pa r·ticular half of th e class. It's survey Prac , day . Earlybefore 9.00 we ga ther outside room 20, everyonewith hi s own little problems - creating an expec·rant auuosphere. Ver satile H ogg - the first there- is p ract ising a new impression, at the same timehaving a shoot out with Karl, wh o is approachingfrom the other end of the corridor. Scre w arrives,dumps hi s ba g and goes in sea rch of a date.HOWle com es craw ling along on hand s and knees,he had to walk from th e station. Sm ith andBrindle (his biro a ll read y tucked behind his ea r)foll ow five steps behind, they don 't want to wa lkwith Don. While Wi seman is answering pol ite lyall th e " ho w d id you do its?" Hogg ha s a full -dressrehearsal in front of Carr, who a p prov es of th eshow. Wo ollard's first quest ion concerning AI'spr esence is not a nswered . Spaulding can't ask forAl because he is out of breath - he had to draghis car into a ke rb d u e to lack of a gearbox.Addison op enly pra ys for rain so th at Russel willhelp h im on some computations. Coop er com esdown after h e realized h e was on the wron g lIoorwondering if snow has fallen on the r acecourse.Meanwhile Macw ell ha s arrived on crutches; aft era viscous struggle last ing two minutes he surre n ­ders them. Ho gg's o nly comment "They neverbuilt cho p pers li ke that 30 yea rs ago". Murra yha sn 't remem bered yet wh ere h e has hidden thecomputer; Po well is determined to get some workdone during P rac. Sho rtl r be for e 9.00 Al arrives.Woollard consequently co lapses, wiping h is forehead,Hogg ex claims "That's the end of m y da y".Only Spa uld ing shows p rese nce of mind by chain ­ing Al down. Poor AI, he has n ever been th e samesince hi s lack of a tt enda nce was pointed out tohim.Fina lly, in th e afte rn oon. th e tens ion is rel eased.Ma c who till recen tly had everyone believe thath e had a hairy chest exposes his collar of hair.drops to the ground and dreams of th e girl hesaw on the way to scho ol ; Monroe coo ks upanother ointment for Eric. On the other end otth e ground th e film ing of a western makes goodprogress. Walt Disn ey H ogg is explaining to bulletperforatedCarr how to Iall off a ra ng ing' pol eused as a ho rse while Karl tri es desp erately toget a film in to th e th eod olite. Powell , moaningbehind th e stage, "Come on , yo u guys". Addisonis wo rking.The week con cludes almost th e same way as itstarts. H yd. and then Surv'y. T he procedure isal most the same. Dell a is ma rked present eventho ug h he will be 10 rnins. •la te. Murray's enquiriesa bou t the activiti es du ri ng the comingweek -end a re th e on ly chan ges fro m Mo nday'sprocedure.T H E YEAR'S VICTO R IESInter-faculty swimmin g spo rts.Inter -faculty athlet ic spo rts.Civ ils against t he Rest football ma tch.Yarra raft race.Many ci vil engineering diplomas.RAFT RACE IN DETAILHorrified at th e school's preparations for th echa llen ge race between R .M.LT. and C.T.C., theeight form ci vils set about to build their own raft,The civil raft manned by 12 civils defeated ahuge raft from R .M.I.T. manned by 50 gremlinsand a n ou tboa rd motor and a cumbersome raftmanned (sul?ported) by hundreds of swimmingC.T.C. electrical college students, Some hi ghlightsof the race are listed below.- ..(a) Civils wait half an hour for rest of rafts toline up. Due to bad d esign the R .M.LT. outboardengine re fuses to work under water.(b) Caulfield students take command of firstbridge, allow civil raft to pass them , pour refuseon R .M.LT. raft caus ing a temporary but hurrieda bandonm ent.(c) A utility fu ll of R.M .LT. am m unition is putto goo d us e by th e C.T.C. ground crew.(d) R.M.LT. stu de nts reli eved of green pa imwhi ch is also put to good use. (R .M.I.T. gre rnm iesturn green.)(e) An attempt b y R,M.I.T . to catch up byusing a car on the bank to lOW them.(f) After winning, the civi l raft launches alightnin g attack on a police boa t (he avily armed) .(g) Victors a nd vanquished join in a bath in theSout hgate fountain. (While bathing it was noticedthat the fountain had a definite tendency tovibrate under th e action of many jumping bodies.)·1 ",