{"id":293,"date":"2015-02-25T21:10:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T21:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marcolian.com\/?p=293"},"modified":"2015-02-27T14:03:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T14:03:17","slug":"mock-olian-counterculture-continues-to-thrive-at-mc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marcolian.com\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"MOCK-OLIAN: Counterculture continues to thrive at MC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Bieniek<\/strong>
\npbb001@marietta.edu<\/em><\/p>\n

Marietta College is known for many things: championship sports teams, a world-class petroleum engineering program, Doo Dah Day, and a beautiful campus among them. But the first thing people think of when they hear \u201cMarietta College\u201d, in all corners of the country and indeed the world, is undoubtedly the vibrant, actively-passive, flower-sniffing, tree-hugging, free-loving, drum-circling, bonfire-burning hippie community that descends upon the mid-Ohio Valley every August.<\/p>\n

Studio art major Sunshine Meadows has really taken to the school\u2019s hippie life.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery one is, like, so groovy here,\u201d Sunshine, whose given name is Mary, said. \u201cThursday night drum circle in Herman Bowl is definitely the biggest blast we have. It\u2019s a total gas.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added that the daily \u201ccircle of love\u201d protests around Brown are \u201cpretty far out too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOne time, a petro major came up to me and told me to please excuse myself, so I told him to excuse himself from destroying the earth. I felt so radical and empowered!\u201d<\/p>\n

At this point the interview was cut off as Sunshine remarked she \u201chad to blow.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBrother Rainbow and I are gonna go to Qdoba for some gut wadding, then we\u2019ll probably smoke some grass\u2026 and then I guess we\u2019ll need some more gut wadding,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n

Later reached for comment by phone, Rainbow exclaimed, \u201cI\u2019M SO BAKED RIGHT NOW,\u201d and hung up.<\/p>\n

Philosophy major Peaceful Revolution leads meditation and discussion \u201clove groups\u201d every Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe almost always address the same central question \u2018What is life, man?\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also talk about why love is awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peaceful also claimed they try not to make the meetings \u201ca total bummer,\u201d so they make sure to \u201cpass some smoke.\u201d<\/p>\n

He additionally always invites that \u201cestablishment-girl\u201d who nevertheless totally \u201clights his fire.\u201d She has yet to attend a meeting.<\/p>\n

Dr. Grace Leary, director of Peace Studies, was a student when the first flower-painted Volkswagen\u2019s arrived on campus.<\/p>\n

\u201cAh, August of \u201968. That was a very special time for me\u2026 for us,\u201d she recalled. \u201cWe would just sit with the van back doors open blasting \u2018Sgt. Pepper\u2019s\u2019 all afternoon. Every now and then we would rouse ourselves to viciously make out with whomever was sitting closest by. The Marietta community was totally dumbfounded by us. When they started organizing a militia, we decided it was time to split.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Grace, the pioneering hippies sought refuge in rural Washington County for a month before the college assured the city that they would keep an eye on the \u201canti-war communist filth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSince then, the hippie community has been a mainstay on campus. They\u2019ve really contributed to Marietta\u2019s image as an arts-oriented institution that embraces abstract thinking,\u201d Grace said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you think Marietta-you think liberal arts, with an emphasis on the art. And that\u2019s thanks to the hippies.\u201d<\/p>\n

At press time, Marietta\u2019s hippies were preparing to stare for at least four hours at that totally trippy, ridiculously far-out mural behind the stage in the Gathering Place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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