Friday, July 6, 2012

More Stilwell -- student government giveaway

Another "Stilwell" comic, digitally restored for posterity, from the strip that ran in The Cauldron, Cleveland State University's student newspaper, in 1971, '72 and '73. Again, CSU was a commuter school, and most of us were just trying to get a degree and move on, not much invested in campus affairs. Student government was off a lot of the student body's radar, and I recall at least an informal sense that the elected body was engaged in a lot of irrelevant issues that failed to resonate with most people. Daycare obviously was an important issue to students who were also parents and needed a convenient place for their kids to stay while they were in class. But many students, like me, were fresh from high school and nowhere near the child-rearing stage of our lives. Memory fails, but apparently the student council did work to get a daycare service started on campus. "Stilwell" visited the snarky "What's the point of student government?" theme a few times. This comic ran Jan. 18, 1972. Fat Glenn's is a reference to a previously referenced campus bar/eatery that opened around that time. And I do recall that we used to refer to the hamburgers served there as "gristleburgers."

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  1. "Stilwell" lives on the Internet. The comic strip that ran in The Cauldron, Cleveland State University's student newspaper in 1971 and 1972 is being digitally restored and posted on a blog, for all who may remember and want to revisit the strip.

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