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Unbalanced Mixers

The best, and sometimes the worst, way to make
contact with girls in the area is at a mixer: A mixer is a
meeting of several hundred girls with several thousand
males at a school. At such a time the two groups are
expected to mix, usually to the tunes of a bad soul band
which no one notices anyway.

If nothing else, the first-year man will usually
develop a deeper friendship with persons he has
ceremoniously "gone down the road" with and suffered
all the hardships of waiting two hours for a ride in
Crozet, getting violently drunk and ill, and watching his
ego slowly melt beneath his orange-striped tie.

The first mixer to kick off the fall social season will
be held at Madison College. Madison is a state teachers
college located in downtown Harrisonburg, some 65
miles from the first-year dorms.

Madison can be reached by going north on Route 29
and turning west on Route 33 at Ruckersville, or going
west on Route 250 and then north at Staunton on
either Route 81 or Route 11.

The Madison Freshwomen begin school on September
15 and number almost 900. Altogether there are
2800 girls at Madison. There are some men there too,
and sometimes, they get very uptight when alien males
are found on campus.

KLM by Wright

Madison is a good place to start the year as most Madison girls are down to
earth, and for years Madison girls have had a reputation, well deserved, of
having no qualms about getting right down to earth.

The following night, September 20, features an extravaganza of mixers
at no less than six female institutions. are mixers at
Randolph-Macon Women's College in Southern Seminary in
Buena Vista; our sister school, Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg;
the home of the county fair queens. Longwood College in Farmville,
Virginia Intermont in Bristol; and finally the home of Melanie Wilkes,
Sweet Briar College, in Sweet Briar, near Lynchburg.

On September 13, some 250 Freshwomen will matriculate at
Randolph-Macon, or Randy-Mack, as called by non-residents. This will
push the female enrollment to an "all-time high" of 850 women scholars.
The girls of Randolph-Macon are known for their academic prowess, but
are also generally sociable. At least they won't spend the night telling you
about Daddy's plantation and riding stables (that will happen at Sweet
Briar).

Since the flooding this summer, the road to Randolph-Macon has been
drastically changed for at least three months. To get there, go south on
Route 20 to Scottsville, go west on Route 60, and turn south onto Route
29.

The above-mentioned route will also take you to, or
past, Sweet Briar College. The incoming class of girls
will arrive 250-strong (or dainty as they would have it)
on September 16. This will result in a total
enrollment of 725 belles, Sweet Briar girls must be
handled with care, and it's quite possible their fathers
just might own a plantation or two. The big news there
is that these gentle girls may now remain out until 6 in
the morning, giving their school the most liberal social
rules in the state (that still doesn't solve the problem of
what to do with a Sweet Briar lass until 6 a.m.).