Butler Community College - Grizzly Growl Yearbook (El Dorado, KS)

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BCCC students (I) caught up in the disco fever are Liane Kohls and Randy Hayes. 2. Kelly Eslinger and John Sutherland. 3. Tonya Shine and Andre Dixon. 4. Greg Jones and Linda Black. 5. JoAnn Prichard, Vickie Valverde, Trade Fox, Brenda Wedman, Jay Greenough, Wava Anderson, Doug Bohannon, Greg Jones. 6. Kathy Unruh and Ricky Rivera.

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Disco beat hits campus Like the million other Americans, BCCC students and fac- ulty were caught up in the delirium of disco. SAC sponsored at least one disco a month and special ones during the year for homecoming, Christmas and the spring formal. There are now more than 10,000 discotheques in the U.S.; last year no less than 37 million Americans got out on the disco floor at least once. The total revenues of that first big season were in excess of four billion dollars. As the delirium continues discos are being franchised with new places opening at the phenomenal rate of 20 per week. BCCC offered disco dance classes as a non-credit course in the fall. El Dorado opened a high school disco in January, 1979. A glance at Billboard charts in September 1978, showed that four of the top 10 records in the nation were disco songs and that a large portion of the entire top-40 list was either disco music or music that showed its beat and style. At the time when dressing up and going out on the town have £ • once again become fashionable, disco offers plenty of action every night as it has become America ' s foremost form of entertainment. In New York, where there are now more than 1 ,500 discos, Stu- dio 54, the city ' s finest is the greatest disco in the world. Studio 54 was once the Fortune Gallo Opera House, and later a CBS studio for the The $64,000 Ques- tion now has become a regular showplace. The cine-disco concept album is a prophecy of the most impor- tant single development in the long history of the entertainment business. What it points to be is the merger of the movie industry and the record industry in the first total entertainment combine. The power of this parlay was demonstrated conclusively by Saturd ay Nigh Fever, a film that has had a huge impact on the entertainment world. The film has grossed to date $118 million, making it one of the greatest box- office hits in the history of motion pictures. At the same time, the sound track album, featuring the Bee Gees, has sold 15 million copies. On the strength of Satur- day Night Fever, the whole disco industry has taken off in the blue. • • • « zs iwammi m mmmmm -■ ii

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Decade of 70 ' s brings change As the decade of the seventies draws to a close college students may have forgotten completely or may re- member vividly some of the events that seemed monumental at the time. For instance: The Kansas City Chiefs actually won a Super Bowl in 1970 when they walloped the Minnesota Vikings. Miniskirts were still around in the early seventies but they were in a death battle with midis. Hiphugger blue jeans were the uniform on col- lege campuses. Coeds continued to wear long, straight, stringy hair into the early decade. Students will remember Nixon elected and Nixon rejected after a scandal called Watergate; then Ford was selected and then rejected for a good ole southern boy called Carter who had a brother named Bil- ly- L fe died in 1972 only to be resur- rected in 1978. Howard Hughes died in 1976, and his wills are still being resurrected. Elvis Presley died in 1977 and his act is being resurrected nightly in clubs all over the country. Agatha Christie died in 1977, but her mystery novels seemingly will never die. Blue jeans were still popular in the mid seventies, but the waist line was at the waist and bell bottoms were gone. Hair on both sexes started get- ting shorter, and the Farrah Fawcett look for women was in. Heavy eye makeup was out, and earth tones were in. A new mania called running took over in the seventies. And whether a student ran or not, every student on the campus had to own the uniform of a pair of running shoes to comple- ment the jeans. THE GAME in the seventies was tennis. Names like Billie Jean King, Chris Evert, Jimmy Connors, Hie Nastase made headlines. BCCC got its first tennis courts i n 1978. Creeping inflation became a fa- miliar menace in the decade with the dollar shrinking to 21 cents in early ' 79. Another threat was gasoline ra- tioning in 1974, which did not mate- rialize. Americans found themselves driving 55 mph instead of 75. In 1979, drivers are once again threat- ened with a fuel shorage. A college student with a custom- ized van was assured of his popular- ity, but a pickup truck also became a macho status symbol by the late sev- enties. The VW bug which had reigned so long was all but dead. College humor took on new status when the film Animal House star- ring John Belushi from TV ' s Satur- day Night Live become a smash hit. Steve Martin also from Satur- day Night became the top comedi- an on the campus circuit. The C.B. radio craze came on in the middle seventies and created a whole new culture. Burt Reynolds even made a film with the C.B. as the gimmick. John Travolta started a whole new craze of disco with his appearance in Saturday Night Fever and the al- bum of the same name by the Bee Gees became the highest grossing al- bum ever produced. Rod Carew hit as the best hitter of all times in major league baseball, and Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth ' s home run record, and a handsome brute named Mark Spitz won 7 gold medals for swimming. Monday night pro football on television set a new life style in the seventies. The decade of the seventies saw a feat which is rarely accomplished three times as Secretariat, Seattle Slew, and Affirmed each won the Triple Crown in horse racing. Also in the seventies, in the world of baseball, the New York Yankees, with the acquisition of such stars as Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter, and others became a major league dyn- asty, winning two consecutive World Series. W niii ii w i m. ■ mm m ?a»