Junior year of Molarity has come to an end.
300. During the election year of 1980 there was discussion that Reagan would reinstitute the military draft. Draft resistance was discussed in the same manner that our parents would talk about the depression during the economic malaise of the 1970s — history repeating itself. Reagan reinstituted registration but not the draft.
301. This cartoon appeared with the headline as news broke of the failed attempt to rescue the hostages in Iran. Also on the headline was news that Corby’s Tavern was fighting to keep their liquor license.
302. Advertised in The Observer were area concerts by The Who, Cheap Trick, Fleetwood Mac, Bob Seger, Journey, ZZ Top and Tom Chapin. Dion is having dinner with Regina, the Italian girl Jim and Chuck met in cartoons 196 to 199.
303. This was meant to be the cliffhanger cartoon – the last Molarity of the school year. I don’t think that most Domers spent the summer of 1980 worrying about Chuck being stuck in an Italian prison. Strangely I had a cliffhanger the same summer the TV show Dallas had their “Who shot JR?” cliffhanger.
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