Louisiana State University - Gumbo Yearbook (Baton Rouge, LA)

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Ford being resoundingly whacked in the head with the same sculpture when the art gum becomes unstuck. having 22 sisters and more to meet every semester. learning the art of survival on cam- pus from those sage girls who have lived in the same dorm for two years. being teary eyed at the end of the semester when you have to leave those creeps next door who always complained that the stereo was too loud but you grew to like anyway. a type of sisterhood without the monthly dues. by Mary Schambach Luci LeBlanc Meredith Student Life 19

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What Is Dorm Life? Meredith Meredith Dorm life is: explaining to your housemother that it ' s rheumatism, not alcohol, that is causing you to fall down five times while going through the lobby in search of your room. having that long-awaited phone call answered by your foreign room- mate who says you went home for the weekend. (It ' s Wednesday.) going out on a date at night in blue jeans and red t-shirt and coming back the next morning in the same blue jeans and red t-shirt and being greeted by the same hostess as the night before. mass confusion before each game trying to find clothes for everyone on the floor to wear. walking out of the shower wrapped in a towel only to be met face to face with the janitor. (Man in the hall?) fighting for one of the three wash- ing machines that are meant to serve 400 girls. (Wash on a week- day? NEVER!! Clothes only get dirty on Friday.) explaining to your roommate ' s mother why she isn ' t in her room at 7:00 in the morning. water fights at 3:00 in the morning. battles with killer roaches in the hall and giving them three minutes warning before you put your feet on the floor in the morning. a big rat race - - the rats are win- ning. Meredith laughing in the face of tests and crying afterward to your teacher. your roommate ' s boyfriend calling at 2:30 a.m., 3:30 a.m., 4:30 a.m. trying to convince the room inspec- tor that the four by four hunk of plywood sculpture that your boy- friend made in art class is sus- pended by art gum. 18 Student Life

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Dorm life. Part of the college experience since the beginning. Men ' s dorms haven ' t changed in concept or experience since the Dark Ages, but then they were called Monasteries. The same jokes on the bathroom walls, not to men- tion the creations of frustrated art- ists (lovers), the same late night restlessness for which there is no cure (but bull-sessions at least take your mind off of it for a while). The cramming for exams, the noisy neighbors, the weird roommates are all part of scholastic experience and have been for a thousand years. That first day - - running from the housing office to men ' s housing and back, Getting the Key, trying to check in with the counselor (how come the dorm doors are still locked?), you must be my room- mate (God, why do I always get the prizes?). Finally, (at last!) school starts, schedules are ironed out, books bought, you get a good roommate, the cafeteria opens (after paying fees, you didn ' t have any money left to eat with!), and you ' ve even stud- ied some for your classes. Only one thing is lacking and you roam the streets looking for her. You stare at girls in the post-office, try blind dates, even go to a dorm dance or two, utterly fruitless. Rayner 20 Student Life