TABLE OF CONTENTS' "Playdays of Agnosticism" Kelly Ogden 3 Poem Tom Davenport 6 "Love Is Unique" Sydna Keating 7 "Follow Me" Pam Wilson 8 Poem Merlin Calver 9 "On Joining" Weldon Champneys 9 "The Rain Beating Here Weldon Champneys 9 "The Path" Robert R. Vance 10 "The Epitaph of Future Generations" Byron L. Wade 11 "A Hymn to the Mini-skirt"Carl L. Andra 11 Photographic Essay Tom Devenport and Geoffrey N. Nesossis 12 "The Switch" Greg Geilmann 14 STAFF D. KELLY OGDEN editor-in-chief PAMELA WILSON associate editor TOM DAVENPORT photography SHARLENE SAUNDERS art BARBARA SMITH CHRISTY PARRISH KATE WALK ANNA LEE CARVER critics PUBLICATION INFORMATION PROBE it the official magazine of Weber State College. All articles and poetry printed herein are written and submitted by faculty students and alumni of this college. All articles published herein arc the property of PROBE and any reproduction of the material in this magazine it expressly prohibited without the written content of the editor. Articles may be submitted to the PROBE office or to any staff member. All manuscripts and artwork must include name address and telephone number before PROBE will insure their return. PLAYDAYS OF AGNOSTICISM KELLY OGDEN Objective: Let's see if the "Religious Emphasis Week" lectures would stand up in a court of law. scene: A dignified Supreme Court of law in the Un-lighted States of America. Case: The Ministers of God versus God. The formal accusation: The doctrine of the Ministers of God has ceased to correspond with the doctrine of God. Charge: The ministers of God should no longer be called God's. Basic premise: They have a human-centered organization, not God-centered. They have renounced nearly all of God's own words. Session Proceedings: Honorable Judge arrives, seats himself. The jury enters. Mr. District Attorney comes forward and humbly calls first witness. Attorney: Just a minute, just a minute, Rabbi! Turn off your visions for a while and speak in English. Focus your eyes. Rewind you mind. There. Now tell the groping, ignorant lepers of the world that they are permitted to live once more. The World in attendance: Oh, please do, Rabbi. After the torment, degradation, and utter depravity of this life, we're hoping for something better. We've withstood disease, war, and poverty for the cause of God. Tell us God has a reward for us. Hon. Judge: (timidly) Order, order in this here court. I left my thunderbolts home today, expecting an iota of law to reign in this here court. Calm yourselves, people of the world. I know you're anxious to hear this here Rabbi give you hope. Rabbi, you may now give hope. Rabbi: "I'm sorry to disappoint you. I can't tell you a thing about an after-life." This business of resurrection, I am sure, is also a product of man's inventive mind. Attorney: Enough. You'll spoil the court if you say too much. Rabbi: But, Mr. Attorney, God has commissioned me to enlighten the frightened masses of humanity. They must know that there is no such thing as "when the Messiah comes." Even our Hebrew Bible is merely "high poetry" and not really the things that happened. Recorder's Notes: He could play God in this case The Twelve Apostles? boldly, too Out of order how brazen... Tears begin flowing at this point even my emotions are being touched