This picture was taken the year Eric Higgins graduated from college He lived with Jay Accola at Western Illinois University. Jay Accola was the photo editor at the Western Courier, he was the one who hired Eric. Jay was an older student, he had been in the army and was attending school on the GI bill. Jay was a journalism major and a photography buff like Eric. He was taking a photography class and he was supposed to do an assignment on something funny. The house they lived in had this poster, of the girl, which covered a big hole in the wall because the guys who lived in the house before them had a big party and trashed the house. To cover the hole, they put this poster over it and left the poster when they moved out of the house. For the assignment, Jay wanted Eric to wear the slippers and the shorts and get on the phone and be the same position as the girl in the phone booth so it looked like he was talking to her. This was the impression that he wanted to give. However, there was no particular reasoning behind the bear slippers. Eric used to call this house the wind tunnel because there were places around the windows that weren’t sealed up or insulated. The house was so drafty you could feel the wind blowing through the house.
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This picture was taken the year Eric Higgins graduated from college He lived with Jay Accola at Western Illinois University. Jay Accola was the photo editor at the Western Courier, he was the one who hired Eric. Jay was an older student, he had been in the army and was attending school on the GI bill. Jay was a journalism major and a photography buff like Eric. He was taking a photography class and he was supposed to do an assignment on something funny. The house they lived in had this poster, of the girl, which covered a big hole in the wall because the guys who lived in the house before them had a big party and trashed the house. To cover the hole, they put this poster over it and left the poster when they moved out of the house. For the assignment, Jay wanted Eric to wear the slippers and the shorts and get on the phone and be the same position as the girl in the phone booth so it looked like he was talking to her. This was the impression that he wanted to give. However, there was no particular reasoning behind the bear slippers. Eric used to call this house the wind tunnel because there were places around the windows that weren’t sealed up or insulated. The house was so drafty you could feel the wind blowing through the house.