Abilene Christian College - Prickly Pear Yearbook (Abilene, TX)

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finals, bring Dr. Pepper to campus vending machines, shorten Bean lines, eliminate classes before Sing Song, create more parking places and destroy campus apathy. Now that's a politician. Best parking space. The red zone in front of the north door of the Ad Building. Unfortunately, it's also the best place to get a ticket. Best parking space to avoid. The space in the lot between Sherrod E-F and G-H. The rut you have to back into is large enough to swallow a small car. And yes, we called maintenance — last year. Best laundry. The Radford Hills Laundry. Where else can you go to do laundry that you haven't done for four weeks and still not miss Mork and Mindy”? It's the ultimate in suburban ease, color TV, stereo and clean washers. Best rule in the student handbook. It is the responsibility of the student to make arrangements with the landlord before entertaining guests of the opposite sex within the residence. The privilege does not extend beyond the regular closing hours of the dormitory (P-18). Best mystery. Who dumped the cows? Best fountain. (No relationship to the above.) The GATA fountain at Homecoming and graduation is at its best. These are also usually the only times it works. As Optimist writer Bobby Stokes once pointed out, the alumni come back to see the GATA fountain, located centrally in the mall area, it is the highlight of campus life.” Recently, some have complained that the fountain has lost its esthetic beauty and has taken on the likeness of a trash can. These same people advocate digging up the fountain and replacing it with a flower garden. To this GATA cheerfully responded, Over our dead bodies! The alumni really wouldn't like a GATA garden any better, especially with all those dead bodies lying around it. Best junk food. Taco Bueno and Burger King are about even in this category. Either one serves what everyone wants but really top) imitate Sonny and Cher at the fall Nova Radford Hills Laundry (top left). This first floor high on junk food junkie lists (top right), and shouldn’t have. Best local politician. Gary Thompson, state representative from Abilene. Dr. Thompson, on leave from ACU, won election to the Texas House of Representatives last summer with a campaign staffed primarily by ACU students and faculty. Best state politician. Bill Clements, of course. You can t argue with success. He is the first Republican governor in more than 100 Best of ACU — 2

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THE Nothing but the best. . . that's what everyone wants. So that’s exactly what we looked for. Of course, we made no attempts at objectivity as we searched the campus for the bests.” Some we pulled right out of thin air; others we took a random poll of whomever happened by. Some (at least three or four) are valid “bests. At any rate, we think the following are just some of the qualities that make this year and ACU “one of the best.”

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Best restroom. Restrooms on the first floor of the Morris Center come complete with makeup lights. They come as close to luxury as ACU will probably ever get, and that's not very close. Best fad. We give thanks to those fine folks at National Lampoon who brought us “Animal House” and John Belushi. Since the hippies and the sit-ins of the '60s, most Americans have relegated college students to a posi- tion equal with the Asian flu, some- thing to be avoided if humanly possible. Animal House” brought college students new “respectability,” and if no one thought of toga parties before, they have now. of finding a room for them again. Smart, huh? Best Senate project. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the Wildcat mascot costume. In fact, it was the Michael Murphey concert in Cullen Auditorium. Best honorary organization whose sole value is its inclusion on a transcript. We couldn’t really make a decision between Alpha Chi, Blue Key, W Club and Omega Rho Alpha. But our choice is Omega Rho Alpha because its only meeting is for the yearbook picture. Best Boss. ACU registrar Ken Rasco was selected by the Western Horizon Chapter of the American Business Women's Association. Best motel to reserve a room in for your parents. The Blue Top Courts on Ambler. They're air-cooled. They’re also perfect for a budget-minded student. But their best point is that once your parents spend a night there, they'll never ask you to go through the hassle Best alumnus. John Holton. Best picture. In our opinion, the year's best picture appeared in the Optimist centerspread entitled At the Zoo (Nov. 3,1978). Corliss Hudson photographed the year-old giraffe which has a face that could melt even the hardest heart. Best Sing Song costumes. Galaxy (pharoahs), GATA (butterflies) and the Sophomore class (dragons). Best Sing Song vocal groups. Galaxy (“Pharoah’s Phollies”), GATA ( The Metamorphosis”) and thf Senior class (“The Off-the-Wall Gang Presents: A Bunch of Phonies”). Best joke. The Campus Center grill. This joke is followed by the all-time best joke, the mall area to be constructed near the Foster Science Building. — Best of ACU