Ball State University - Orient Yearbook (Muncie, IN)

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days in September 7? 7 Crowded cars and crabby cops Those who chose off-campus living also had to con- tend with the hassles of moving their own furniture. Lucy Reagan and Tom Kuepper shuffle a heavy chest-of-drawers into an apartment. (DRT) Imagination helped when creating makeshift luggage such as orange and milk crates and plastic garbage bags. Anderson sophomore Julie Shaw and Sandy Marsh combine strengths to transport a cumbersome load to their Palmer Hall room. (MJI) They came marching back to Mun- cie, more than 17,000 of them. They came pulling U-Hauls and in battered Volkswagen bugs, bringing portable television sets, throw pillows, and Har- brace handbooks. Industrial Trust Time Temperature remembers September 4, 5, and 6, 1977 as hot and horrible. Despite the heat, moving in at Ball State University was a fall ritual as traditional as Benny. Campus Cadet Brad Woods, New Castle junior, worked during the mov- ing in. “There were no real hassles,” he said, “and the university police should be commended for a fine job.” Woods was almost amazed that there were no really bad traffic tie-ups. Director of Traffic, Safety, and Security Tom Osborn saw moving in from a different perspective. “People seemed to forget they were one in a thousand moving into a par- ticular area,” he said. “They would unload and then just leave their cars. “We used increased personnel to handle traffic,” he continued. “The ci- ty and county reserves helped tremen- dously.” Police reports showed only one on-campus accident occurred dur- ing the moving in time. Scott Killings, member of Delta Chi fraternity, avoided the moving in rush by returning to Muncie earlier in the summer. As a former hall resident, Killings was overjoyed not to fight the traffic or bother with check-in pro- cedures. “T don’t miss the strictness of dorms. There’s not always someone looking down your shoulder to see if you are doing the right things,” the Kokomo junior said. Campus traffic ebbed and flowed, but really crowded conditions existed in the dorms. Residence halls normally house 6,837 students, according to housing office figures. However, an ex- tra 361 residents were sardined into what the housing office called “tem- porary housing” and what the students called “study lounges.” “The temporary housing was not an ideal situation,” said Karen Hoefs, director of administrative services at the housing office, “but the students coped with it as well as they could. MovingIn x Hassles 23

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hot and horrible days Assorted trash stacked up around campus proved quite a hassle for sanitation workers. Leftovers from the back-to-Muncie march form an ominous pile behind Tichenor Hall in Dehority Complex. (DRT) “Most of the students were happy to be able to come to school, since the registrars office stopped admitting (new students) in July, and many students were deferred until winter or spring quarters,” she continued. Hoefs attributed the overcrowded conditions to the fact that 300 to 400 more upperclassmen than usual returned to halls while the number of freshmen, the usual dorm occupants, increased. However, she said more than 100 students in temporary hous- ing had been offered a room by September 20. Ten Wood Hall residents received quite a surprise upon moving in. Each discovered she would have nine room- mates in a former sorority suite—not one roommate with dirty ashtrays and a clanging alarm clock, but nine. “It was a real shock. I mean, I thought I was going to be in with maybe four other girls,” said Valerie Berry, Gary freshman. “I just wanted to go home.” Terese Arvin, student senator from Trane Hall, faced few hassles upon coming to school because she moved in early. However, about helping freshmen residents get acquainted with the hall, the Crown Point junior told a different story. “One wistful-looking freshman came in with a suitcase under each arm, went to the desk, and told them 24 Living x Hassles Whole families sometimes got into the act of moving in. Freshman Tara Lonzo (chair) shares one last meal with her family before they head home. With five people to share the work, it only took the Lonzos 20 minutes to move Tara into Jeep Hall. (WEV) her name. The desk didn't have her listed on their IBM sheet, and the girl said, ‘I’ve got a letter from housing in my suitcase saying I live here.’ ” Problems like this were worked out eventually, usually with little incon- venience to incoming students. “Traffic in the Woodworth- DeHority area was a problem with eight halls trying to move in,” Arvin continued. “Campus police did a fairly