Gryphon 1962 - Adm.monash.edu.au

COMMER CE BOYSStan di ng: Ashley Mison, Philip C hiffey, Ho Cha ng Ban, Rob er t Ill rnan , David Ritter man , Gr eg Ma thew" Jacob Choca ner.Silt ing: Bob God da rd , Ian Douglas, Pat Hutch inson , L cs Lar ks, Yeo Yan , J ohn Rozenblum, Roge r Brid eson , LiuWah Cheong.stra in in which one of the partIcIpants h ad h isneck pa rti all y paralysed by the other "Iha is of atypical Smithy's build.I have by now m entioned eve ryo ne ex cep t o nebod whom I will not m ention , for what can I sayabout m yself and re main modest .H ere I lea ve you to join my friends (I h op e [h eywill rem ain that way ) in a fu ry of paper and biro.studyin g furiously so that th ey will not find ou twhe re the boot {its neatly.5DlNo t bein g educa ted in th e art of wnllng not eswith a fun ny intro d uction, we de cid ed to te ll afunny (HA-HA) joke.A teacher visiting a State Mental Hospital wasstroll ing about the grounds, whe n he ca me uponan inmate sprawle d restfully under the sha de o fa tree. After a word of greet in g, th e ma n sa t upand eyed th e visitor wit h in terest."W hat do yo u d o for a living?" he finally ask ed ." I' m a tea ch er. ""Teacher, hah? I used to be a tea ch er. D -hard work .""S u re is," ag ree d the visitor."Ever tr y bei ng crazy?"" W hy, no ," the sho cked teach er re plied ." You ou ght to try it sometime," decl ared th einmate . So he ag ain relaxed on the cool grass ," Bea ts teaching."This so-ca lle d funn y j ok e is typ ical of the a ttitudeof the weirds of 5D l tow ard sch ool. Forin st ance we have R it terrnan (Poli sh Barb ar ian),who t hinks he is a clow n, he thrives on annoyingteachers. " Ma n , he's the nuttiest."There was Brideson, wh o found school worktoo easy due to a swelle d ego, so he left us andfound h imself a job.Next we come to a gigantic muscle m an nam edSkilbeck, but alas hi s brain is weak , and th ereforehe is no t resp onsible for hi s actions. With hi simme d iate foll ow ers, Mison , who has ju st recentlybrok en away from th e group. Chiffey is a lso slow lyswaying aw ay.The Form's rabble ro us er , Cimd ins, is alwa vslocat ed where a n argumen t ex ists. H e is also notidfor no t agreeing with th e teachers, w ho in turndo not agree with h im.We a lso h ave Ry nderman , the Fo rm 's sim p lemindedid iot (they wo uld n 't let US writ e a nym or e).Math ews and Douglas are usu all y at work, how ­ever they are not angels, an d th e latter is reputedto be a D on J uan wi th th e wom en .T he Hutchinson twi ns en joy cau sin g con fus io namong the teachers.Larke tak es a gr eat thrill in a n noying ever yonea nd esp ecially Goddard, wh o by nature is a veryq u ie t cha pp y.Next we co me to Ilkm an , sorry, l llrnan, who isprop osin g to sta rt h is own Klu Klux Klan, so heca n ex term ina te peopl e lik e Ro zenblum.The reason be in g th at J ohn (Com m o) Rozen ­blum is an Extreme Left Winger, who is oftenhe ard denouncin g the Capitali sti c System.T he only well-behaved stu d en ts in the Form arethe O versea s Vis itors, Liu Wah Cheong, H o ChengBan and Yan Yeo, th e reason bein g th ey ju sthaven 't th e clu es.THIS FORM WAS CL AIMED BY THET EACHERS AS BEI NG THE BIGGE ST COL­LECTION O F R t.TBAGS EVE R ASSEMBLEDI N O NE FO R M SINC E T H E BEGIN NI NG OFTHE CAU L FIELD T EC HNIC AL COLLEGE.HOWEVER, OUR OPINION OF THETEACH ER S HAS BEEN CENSORED.DEFINITIONA LectureA p rocess by which th e con tents of the te xt bookof th e instructor are transferred to the noteb ookof the studen t without passing through the head sof ei the r party.68