Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. [25], Ed. 1 Monday, April 1, 1996 Page: 1 of 4
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Cello Putz
Megaphool Staff
A good real-estate op-
portunity is never passed up in
small-town America. Smalt as
small can be, Georgetown is no
exception.
Last week, Sun City
representatives were seen in-
specting the recently con-
demned Kappa Alpha house.
“We’re hoping the uni-
versity is not too attached to
this landmark,” Sun City rep-
resentative Ima Gahner said.
“We would like to ask SU to
fund the restoration, but we
hear that this request doesn’t
get a positive response. Maybe
if we donate $5 million, they’d
be more responsive.”
Though most Sun City
associates couldn’t keep a clear
train of thought for long, some
did give audible hints as to why
the Georgetown-based elderly
housing community is so per-
sistent in their advances.
burn stains all over the walls,”
representative Joe Momma
said “But hell, in my day, I had
it much worse off. Had to walk
uphill to school through snow
everyday.”
Many of the elderly liv-
ing in the community of Sun
City say they like the idea of
the corporation expanding into
different facets of Georgetown
life, and feel they would enjoy
the memories living on a col-
lege campus would bring.
“I’d give up my house
within Sun City to Jive on the
campus,” Enamabell Fixodent
said. “I’d feel just like a school
girl again.”
“First SU, then the
world!” commented one rowdy
visitor whose name was unin-
telligible.
Some members re-
member living in the KA house
during their college days.
“I even checked and
the beer I spilled on the floor
is still there,” Red Spanker said.
pressed concerns about this
merge.
“Will we have to talk to
them [the old folks]?” First-year
student La’Supa Tarnation
asked.
“If they want to live in
the KA house, what stops them
from renting rooms in the
dorms, or building a Luby’s on
campus?” junior Libbe Rallsaid.
Sun City representa-
tives, after hearing these con-
cerns, voiced their replies.
“We’re not taking over
campus, just moving in,”
Gahner said. “But we’ve got
dibs on the Pike house when it
Finally falls, too.”
“We plan on hostin’
our own parties, just like the
house used to,” Momma said.
“Everyone’s invited, so long as
it don’t get too rowdy, and they
don’t bring no more sand in.”
The prospect of shar-
ing a mailbox with an elderly
person isn’t desirable for most
students, but at least now we’ll
“I know there’s glass
and sand in the carpet and
“Those boys don’t miss a beat.”
Some students ex-
have AARP meetings on cam-
pus.
Today, the KA House. Tomorrow, the world! Sun Citx invades. . (photo
by Grisley Yams)
Rangoon Merciless
Megaphool Staff
In a bewildering turn of
events this week residence life
head, Harry Knabe, fled in ter-
ror from the SU campus. Only
hours after his flight a strange
cloaked figure was seen break-
ing in to Knabe’s office. The SU
police responded but were un-
able to run down the suspect
in their police carts, and the
cloaked figure escaped into the
night. The police have no leads
but link The break in with the
recent SU crime, which began
with the theft of the American
flag over Parents Weekend.
Although the cloaked
figure remains anonymous, he
did place a phone call to Mega-
phone on Tuesday. He de-
manded that the paper print
his manifesto, claming that if
they did not he would bomb
the SUB and the Commons. The
paper refused, saying that SU
was planing to destroy the
buildings anyway. The paper
then referred the cloaked fig-
ure to the business affairs of-
Fice, in hopes that he could Find
a building worth threatening.
In response to this action
Phone editor Jason Embry had
this to offer “well damn, if he
blew up something we might be
able to put something interest-
ing on the front page.”
Trying to make sense
of the events of the past week,
1 went in search of the Cloaked
figure. After countless hours of
searching the greater
Georgetown area, I found him.
He was hiding in the darkest
and most seedy place in the
city, the SU bookstore. My first
question was why he would be
in a place like this. His response
was that the felt at home with
the extortion and pain of the
bookstore.
“This place is strong
with the dark side of the force.”
He stated
I asked the cloaked Fig-
ure why it was that he sought
to Find the one that we know
as Harry Knabe.
“I am looking for one
who was known, in the old
days, as Obi Wan Knabe," he
replied.
I couldn’t help but
wonder if he meant Old Ben
Knabe? In any case that’s when
our brief interview ended. The
manager of the bookstore
threw us out for loitering, and
when I looked around the
Cloaked figure was gone.
As a strange sort of
conclusion to this story, I was
able to reach Knabe by phone
yesterday. He had little expla-
nation for the events, but did
admit that some off his polices
as head of residence life were
unpopular.
“I’m not really sure
what is going on, but it scares
the bejesus out of me, and I am
going to run far, far away. How-
ever, I want all the students to
know that 1 stand firmly by the
twenty-four
hour escort
rule, and
that if any-
one breaks it
in my ab-
sence I will
be very dis-
appointed
with them,
and 1 will
haunt them
for the rest
of their lives.
1 will live in
the shadows
and dwell in
the. knight,
no one de-
files the
name of
Knabe with
impunity,”
screamed
Knabe.
With
Jedi Master: Obi Wan Knabe?
that the people from Greendale forcibly from the phone, and
Mental hospital removed him wished me a good afternoon.
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