James Madison University - Bluestone Schoolmaam Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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1 he previous decades had all been stereotyped. The most recent, the ' 80s,was classified as conservative and materialistic, a time of clean-cut yuppies. Instead of Volkswagen vans from the ' 60s, or battleship-sized station wagons of the ' 70s, people drove Honda Preludes. And yet, those who did not want to contribute to the stereotyped vision of the Reagan years perhaps wore tie-dye rather than ties. Clothing and music were two major means of expressing differences. The early ' 90s, having no distinct personality as of yet, showed signs of making the decade a collage - no dominant stereotype, but a highly visible mixture of the influences of the three previous decades. JMU not only reflected a variety of identities, but individuals themselves became new blends of expression. It was not so strange for a tie-dye wearing rock- n-roll drummer to walk by rapping Public Enemy or an Izod-sporting man fly by on the reborn version of roller skates- roller blades. And anyone could be seen in dreadlocks. If the identity of the ' 90s proved to be mixture of stereotypes, then JMU would have been ahead of its time. Whereas some schools were often and easily stereotyped with one image, JMU could only be marked by its mixed bag. JMU was not only a melting pot of individual expression, but was made up of a cross section of the world - different nationalities, races, income levels and histories came together. The result was a group of multifaceted people, renowned for their differences, known as the student body... 4 Opening

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V ' ' Taking advantage of a sunn da . Liva Farrow convcrMr »ilh a friend. During ihc early Tall and the spring monlhs. siudenls spent most of their lime outside. Nate Brown, the drummer for the band Everything, spiritedly enteruins the stu- dent crowd at the Commons. The newly built area provided a suge Tor campus bands.