Marshall University - Chief Justice Yearbook (Huntington, WV)

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Mycroft's was a favorite place for both students and administrators to go for lunch and nightlife entertainment. Nearly every Marshall student has visited th famous 'Hole which saw most students after midnight. MSB HKD the new Verb's Dugout. The Double Dribble offered dance music and a wide screen television that was tuned to the Music Channel. Verb s also hac a wide-screen TV. wh ch generally aimed to please the sports fan. For live musical entertainment, students went to the Monarch Cafe. Tats or Cheers Tats replaced the Inferno and brought in several groups, including Pure Prairie League and the Back Doors, a Doers imitation group. For a quieter atmosphere there was Mycrofts. formerly Just Off Campus, where students said they could sit and talk without having to shout. The one thing that ail the places had to offer were video games, eager to take the quarters of players whose coordination was somewhat deteriorated. But it seemed that no matter where everyone went, they almost always ended up at Bone 's Hole-in-the-Wall. With on y a small TV. a pool table and music trorr the jukebox, the Hole remained campus' hot spot. Mott bars strlvod to offer a wide variety of liquid refreshment for their student clientele. On campus, the Coffee House had food, beer and live weekend entertainment. Bars—29

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A ”Tac«y Tourist party at Spanky s, sponsored by Sigma Sigma Sigma, gave students a chance to dress up and get down. A few blocks off campus. Snaks Fifth Avenue offered a popular setting for food and drinks. Students top clientele for local pubs STUDENTS were the mam clientele for local oars. These bars offeree different kinds of right time entertainment, in search of the students' favor. If students had their dancing shoes on. they probably headed cowrtown to Spankys (later renamed Manhattan) or The Cld Library Restaurant. These also were popular on Wednesday tor ladies night which offered 2-for-1 specials on drinks. Closer to campus were the longtime favorites Varsity. Bobbies' Univers ty Lounge and Jakes They were joined by the re opening of The Double Dribble in its same location anc 28—Bars

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The variety of campus fashions is reflected by Janet Stone, Sharon Hodge, Elona Bias and Diana Britton This student sports the more casual look that is always popular. Casual or dressy: Fashions reflect trends CAMPUS fashion at Marshall University seemed to depend on ,,academia; that is. what the student was doing on that particular day of classes. Class presertations and interviews at the Career Planning and Placement Center called for suits for both men and women, dresses for women and an overall “dressed up look. Test days and early morning classes led to the student's choice of sweats and warm-ups. t-shirts and jeans and a more relaxed approach to fashion. Nightlife dictated a keener appreciation of current fashion trends A more feminine 'eturn to romance appeared in fashion tor women. Lace rjffles and pearls became more visible. For men. the approach to night dressing was basically casual, but some updated their daytime look with a sweater-shirt-tie ensemble. In contrast, sweatshirt dressing, inspired by the movies Flashdance and Staying Alive , became popular on the Marshall campus. In terms of dollars, students could still expect to pay anywhere from $20 to $50 for a pair of jeans, depending on what label they wanted to advertise. A good sweater ran about the same price, or could go as high as $100 for European imports of label names. . Models show off the Latest in cool weather fashion at a fashion show in tho MSC. 30—Fashions