Northwest Missouri State University - Tower Yearbook (Maryville, MO)

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Unpacking oncl pcxkecl in After a summer of recreation and relaxa- tion, college students were greeted with the task of moving back to school. For five days before classes started, park- ing lots and campus roads were jammed with cars waiting to be unpacked. The trips to and from the cars filled the dorm ' s sidewalks and stairs with some students looking for their rooms and others looking for old friends. Those loaded cars were originally hard to pack, but proved to be even harder to un- pack. Stereos, clothes, televisions and assorted junk seemed to fit well enough back home, but in half a dorm room things soon got more crowded than the parking lots. Each individual ' s personality shone through once the packing was done. . . beer lights; posters of Tom Selleck, athletes or Bo Dereck; plants, pictures of sweethearts or Mom. A student ' s imagination was nearly Kevin Kloecke and Steve Kinnison find weelcends at home more enjoyable than the ones spent at Northwest. Like many other suitcasers, they were faced with the drive home on Friday and then the return trip and unloading on Sunday. limitless when it came to converting a dorm room into a home. But for some males, there wasn ' t a dorm room to go home to. Because of an unex- pected surge of male residents, there weren ' t enough rooms to go around. Extras were stored in the high-rises ' lounges until there was more room. According to Bruce Wake, director of housing, every lounge in Phillips Hall and some in Dieterich were packed with two men each. Football player Dan Korff said he spent his first weeks at NWMSU in the North Complex with the rest of the players. But when school began, he had to pack his belongings and move to a lounge in Phillips until he was assigned a permanent room. It was better than sleeping outside, Korff said. Despite overcrowding, returning students were glad to be back to see old friends and to meet new ones. Drinking beers with my old friends was great, said Ed Taulli. It ' s great to be back. A campus resident finds humor in his ARA meal. 55 Hudson Hall girls have only a short walk to classes in Colden Hall. Moving i n9 '

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After a long day, Marnita Hein takes time out for a nap in her Millikan dorm room. The college pond is a source of entertainment for all ages. uyyH SofTiriyj, therre ' Sooo flo VQCOncy H Cluttered rooms, busy halls, late nights and early mornings is not the home-life many students left behind them before coming to Northwest. However, these living conditions were everyday experiences for the majority of students who lived on campus. As the housing requests flowed in for the fall of 1982, it was apparent a housing shortage exsisted. The main concern for Housing Director Bruce Wake was where to house the surplus 96 students. To ease the housing shortage, 66 temporary housing positions were created. Male students were housed anywhere space permitted, including lounges on the floors of phillips and dietrich halls. The second floor in Colbert Hall, which had previously housed women, was filled with male residents. Even though the lounges were spacious, there were numerous disadvantages. It is not a room, it has no furniture and storage, complained Molino, I leave everything in my suit case or throw it on my bed. What will be done if more students decide to live on campus! Currently, plans are in the process to remodel Cauffield Hall for housing. When completed, it will house between 25 to 30 residents. Along with this addition, another floor in Franken will be converted to male housing. -LouAnn Harr —8 Dorm Life

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Maryviiio: The big little town Driving through Maryville on a Friday afternoon was often a time-consuming, patience-irying task. At 3:30 p.m., traffic jammed the intersection at First and Main streets, signaling a change of work shifts at Union Carbide. The cars of shoppers lined the streets and semis idled impatiently at stoplights. In August, however, an additional ele- ment was added; NWMSU students were back in town. The beginning of another school year meant more to Maryville than extra vehicles cramming the streets. The town also became a temporary home, new stomping grounds for many of Northwest ' s 5,160 students. Although Maryville was quite small com- pared to the cities many students came from, it offered many activities and continued to expand and renovate. Activities available to students ranged from roller skating at Skate Country to the ever popular bar, the Palms. Skating was reserved for those 18 and older on Wednes- day nights from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. The Palms, of course, was open for anyone over 21. Many more students spent their time - and money - in one of Maryville ' s three arcades, at the bowling alley, the theater, or in another of Maryville ' s bars. The Variety Club, the Pub, and the Monkey Tree seemed to have an almost endless stream of customers, and the movie theaters often had long lines of people waiting to buy tickets for shows. A night out on the town usually began with supper, and Maryville offered all the standard choices. Along Main Street and the four-lanes were pizza places, fast-food restaurants, steakhouses, and a couple more formal dining establishments. Added to these during the past year were two new eating places, both located on the uptown square. Chelos, a restaurant that served Mexican and American food, moved in on the east side, and an Oriental restaurant, Peking Gardens, opened its doors on the west. Directly between the new restaurants stood the Nodaway County Courthouse. In- terior remodeling had been done in previous years in the 100 year-old structure, but dur- ing the last two years the exterior had also been updated and repaired. A new roof was the first work done on the courthouse. This was followed by sand- blasting the bricks and repairing the con- crete. An acid solution was then used to treat the building, it was waterproofed and several new sidewalks were poured. The four-faced clock in the tower, which had been out of order periodically for several years, was also repaired. The clock chimed the hour as drivers waited for the stoplights to turn green. Heavy traffic poured out of town as employees got off work, shoppers cleared from the stores, and students headed home at the end of finals week. Some would renew their aquaintance with Maryville again in the fall, and for others, the town would simply remain a part of their memories. -Barbie Cowan i ' Typing a term paper in a friend ' s apartment keeps Mark Yager busy. Sprawled on the livingroom floor of the apartment she shares with Lisa Wessel, Donna Albers writes a letter to a friend. •10 ' Maryville off-campus life