by JENNIFER BABCOCK and NAOMI SINGER

This article is for grads only: any unauthorized persons reading this will find that their retinas will

burn up in a particularly graphic.

and painful way and their brains will shrivel to the size of walnuts. So stop reading this right now.

Okay fellow Fourth Years, here’s the plan: it’s the Year of the Power Grad, so let’s have an event, a party, a happening. Let’sreally leave our mark —Ihear artists like to do that. The first and most pressing opportunity to con- tribute a fragmentof yourself to poster- ity is the Grad Stamp Catalogue. While al'/2 X1'/, inch stamp may notseem like much posterity, you might com- pare it to last year’s catalogue. Re- member last year’s catalogue ? Ex- actly — there wasn’t one. And ours is going to be way better than even the ones thatreally did exist. Todate,97% of all grads have had their work docu- mented by the catalogue photography crew or have prepared works designed specifically for the catalogue. This is currently at the printers and will be fin- ished by May 1st. The poster, using the same artwork, will be done by April 17th.

Our ambitious corporate megabuck scheme, mounted to finance this cata- logue, has so far raised approximately five thousand dollars, though the ECCAD Administration has gener-

ously offered to finance the catalogue on.acost-recovery program (they front

the money for production, we pay it

back through sales of the catalogue). As well, the Student Society has made a financial contribution, so even if the corporate megabuck scheme has reached. it’s peak, the Stamp Catalogue will definitely be a reality. The overall cost of producing this projecthas been greatly reduced as the photo work (forthe stamps) has been donated by ABC Photo colour on 4th ave., and the paper for the catalogue has been donated by Coast Paper Prod- ucts.

The Stamp Cata- logue will be like those great sticker books you had as a kid, with black and white drawings of each stamp on the page so you know where to lick and stick. Each grad gets two complete sets of stamps (one to frame as is, the other to tear up and put in the catalogue), plus several hundred copies of your own stamp, in case you want to start your own coun- try. You can do whatever you want with your own stamps, but how many

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each person gets depends on our finan- cial situation.

The other big chance to express yourself (other than your artwork in the Show,

Grad

thatis) is at the mony. May 6th, 1989 - the biggest day

Grad Cere-

of your life. This joyous occasion takes place in the magnificent parking garage just southeast of the College

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(near the Hotel)(and lots of us really do think the parking garage is a magnifi-

‘cent ceremonial site). Use of the ga-

rage has been generously donated by the Granville Island Trust.

The central event of the ceremony is when you take your individual walk across the stage to shake important hands and receive your diploma. To make this less intimidating and more atmospheric, two

slides (of your choos-

ing) will provide a

personal backdrop of splendour as you make your way across the stage and off into the sunset. To further enhance your walk you get to have a 15-second audio bit (your favour- ite music, poetry, joke, biography, or whatever) play through as you glide majestically down the Runway of Glory. Don’t forget — there will be a mass of people (about 700) in the spacious parking garage, so let thern know who you are.

Aside from speeches and adiploma you will experience the thrill of receiv- ing your very own ceramic trophy, as made by a team of dedicated 3-D-ers,

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a symbollic gesture of mutual appre- ciation and farewell. Following all of this will be a gala reception (much food, music, and drink), providing a chance to hob and nob, mix and mingle, rejoice and generally carouse with friends and family and other assorted important people. This reception will be assisted and facilitated by a signifi- cant team of visionary under-grads who have volunteered their time to get an inside view of Grad Glory, in anticipa- tion of their own Big Day.

Then, following the magic yellow footprints which mark the route, you'll slowly migrate towards the College and the Annex for the Grand Grad Finale, the opening of the Grad Show. Luckily there will be more drink on hand to get the taste of stamp glue off your tongue. After this you’ll sleep for three days, and then return to the col- lege every day for three weeks to admire all the great art.

As to all you non-grads who went ahead and read this despite the dire warnings at the beginning, you now know some of the vital secrets of the Rites of Graduation, and are therefore obliged to organize and devise your own splendid ceremony when the time comes. You were wamed.

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by JENNIFER BABCOCK and AOMI SINGER

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