Ball State University - Orient Yearbook (Muncie, IN)

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The first few jumps were exciting and everyone was sure to leap high and smile for the cameras. By the fifteenth try at getting everyone in the air at once, though, legs were starting to twinge with aches and the smiles started to droop because of the heat and the sardine conditions. --photo by William E. Vance Stationed on the Arts Terrace, ‘Fast’ Freddy Fever from WNAP radio sta- tion, kept the crowd entertained and announced, “One... Two... Three... Jump!” for all the jumpers. --photo by F.A. Phillips, Jr. ump For It! sprinkle again for a few minutes. Before the day of the jump The preparation still continued. rumors of a boycott, protests and The Orient coordinators tested the demonstrations had circulated P.A. system to make sure it could around campus, but none be heard atallends ofthe Quad. — materialized. And finally the sun It could be heard, but when staf- came out. Spirits soared, and fers and coordinators were station- everyone had a good time. ed at all corners of the Quad and = After the first official jump, the jump was tested, the four peo- scores of people still joined in for ple jumped at four different times. fifteen more jumps so all the Quickly it was discovered that photographers, film crews and TV sound travels too slowly to make cameras could get the event jumping in the air at the same time recorded. possible. Eventually the crews started to So, after a considerable amount pack up, and the jumpers left as of panic and chaos, a speaker wire quickly as they came. Some left to was finally run to the back of the go to classes, others went home to Quad so that another speaker tell their friends, and all were ready could be added to the sound to watch the news that night to see system. Another problem was how the Orient helped Ball State resolved. make history. 0 | ; Jump for It eee gece dT a SR leh ace taaailey ogg sana

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Hours before most of the jumpers arrived, students from the Geology Department were in the Quad placing ground sensors in strategic places. Then as the 5,000 feet hit the ground they measured the quake that shook the area on a seismograph instrument. Although not all the feet landed at the same time, the graph showed con- siderable quivers--photo by Kim Ferrill According to Mark Records, one of the Orient Jump coordinators, one of the strangest aspects of all the Jump planning was requisitioning the Quad and a university cherry picker. Without the height of the cherry picker, though, it would have been impossible to get a com- plete view of the entire spectacle.--photo by Kim Ferrill 5° +P 4. we oh gah ys yy ty . os aah er oe ‘7 TARE ave, Ev, ie » a — ee eee Gi

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Urban Cowboys ound Up the Wild, Wild Midwest with the game Against Wester be: Michigan. Fourteen players pile -around Ken Currin as he tries to | move th e ball down the ean BSU by Paula Glass They’re everywhere. Clad in Levis and Stetsons, they’re invading classrooms and barrooms, humming the latest Waylon Jennings tune and looking for downhome action. They're urban cowboys, pseudo- wranglers, John Travolta clones who have swept the country and the University with their western ap- pearance and mannerisms. Persis- tent, they've even succeeded making Homecoming 1980 their