Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Oak Yearbook / INSTANO Yearbook (Indiana, PA)

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lUP In Identity Crisis ... lUP ' s colors, thought to be maroon and slate but often ar- gued to be slate and maroon. ... it turned out that lUP ' s colors were neither maroon and slate nor slate and maroon, but actually crimson and gray ... Press Writer Looks At Problem As the fall semester began, lUP ' s students were told of the university ' s identity crisis; which seemed to be magically solved over the summer with a new logo, change of school col- ors and an attempted nickname change. Many students felt this pro- ject was a waste of time and, more importantly, money; however, the project was in its final stages of approval as the fall semester began; so protests were useless for the most part. The image issue caught the ear, or should it be said the pen , of Gene Collier, a sports writer for The Pitts- burgh Press. On Sept. 3, 1986, Collier ' s column featured his view on the situation. The Oak secured permission to reprint this article from The Pittsburgh Press, and we thank them and hope the reader en- joys Collier ' s view of the fUP identity problem. This probably didn ' t show up on Nightline, but there was a benign crisis of identity this summer at lUP. What ' s I UP? Well, there you go. lUP, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, prefers to be known by its initials, which is entirely its prerogative. At least it thought it preferred that until the identity crisis started. I ' m guessing all direc- tives have been suspended until things really settle down. The cause of the crisis was basically three-fold, thought to be superior to the old-fash- ioned, two-fold crises of the late ' 70s. First, printers and artists were playing fast and loose with lUP ' s school colors, thought to be maroon and slate. Second, the school ' s identi- fying logo, three thick lower- case letters arranged in the right order, was battling other logo splinter groups for space and royalities. Third, there was growing discussion that the school should abandon its nickname, Indians, or Big Indians, be- cause it conjured in the con- sciences of the sensitive a screaming, blood-sucking sav-

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1 1 A SI ice Of I Lii ■e R With a student population of hopes of preserving a slice of H roughly 1 3.200, it would be im- life for every person who sees 1 possible to feature each of this book. Whether it ' s the pic- l them in one publication-even ture of the crowd at a football jj A the student directory has its game or the story about work- PM NOT REPORTED stu- ing out , we want a slice of 1 dents. However the 1987 Oak your life at lUP to be remcm- l staff has attempted to capture bered in this yearbook. 1 I UP in many different ways, in I Editor In Chief fe Cynthia Carmickle Business Manager Quynh Luong Photography Editor Douglas Macek Literary Editor Lesley Holton CONTENTS Activities 18 Lifestyles 50 Academics 72 Athletics 98 Organizations 148 Greeks 174 Seniors 204 Above: Bonanza balloons brightened the rainy day of Homecoming 1986. A Slice Of Life 3

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Above: Is it OK to yell Big Indians, or Indiana, Indiana University of Penn- did they change it? Top left: Many sylvania and I LP. Other Page The shirts with the old logo are seen on homecoming banner changed to the campus, left. Even these two sweat- new logo for this year ' s parade. shirts, give the university three names: A Slice or Life 5