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

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Lea ing Ihe Bearcat Bookstore. Dawn Stahl relric cs her backpack from £ the cubbyhole where all students are required to place their bags before entering the store. Bookbags were a necessity for some; for others they i- pro ided a way to express their personalities. Her bookbag tossed carelessly on the library table, Lori Neihart works late into the night. Because it w as difficult for off-campus students to go home o between classes. man foiiiKi ilicniscKcs li irii oui of their hookhass. q. Student Life

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After finding the recipe in a cookbook, Jennifer Kinney sprinkles spices on her Quesadillas Casserole. Unlike some students who ate out nightly. Kinney cooked most of her meals. Preparing a meal for his roomates, Chris (ieinosky adds cheese to his Chicken Parmesan. Cooking was not just limited to one person hut to the shole household. Fast and Easy Recipes Helpless Man (Crock Pot Stew) Here ' s a no-fail recipe. .Start the night hefore. In a crock pot layer: 3-4 carrots, peeled and sliced 3-4 potatoes, peeled and cut up 1 onion, peeled and cut in half or quailers 1-2 lbs lean stew beef or cut up chuck steak 1 can Golden Mushroom soup (Campbeirs) 1 envelope onion soup mix 1 can water Layer vegetables in the crock pot in order of recipe. Mix the soups diid w aicr together and pour over meat. Put crock pot on low and cook all night and into the next evening. you ll have beef stew for supper. You might want to check it in the morning to add a little more water. The measurements aren ' t critical. .Add whatever other vegetables you like. Hamburger Pie I lb. ground round 1 cup chedder cheese 2 cups Bisquick I can chedder cheese soup .V4 cup chopped onion .V4 cup water vegetables (optional) Brown hamburger and onions. Mix in soup. In a separate bowl, mix Bisquick and water until it becomes dough. Spread the dough in a pan. On top of the dough spread the remaining ingredients. Top with cheese. Bake on 4(X) degrees for 30 minutes. (Source: America Online and World Wide Web) Cooking - 9

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B LeslcN Thacker They hold hooks. Ala Dine Cards, planners, wallets — c cr thing needed to sur ive the day. It was no wonder that some students hags and hackpacks began to take on li es of their o n. w ith unique meanings and histories. Differences in personal expression were big reasons for the uniqueness of bags as well as fashion and durability. The handmade bag that hung on the back of her w heelchair had sentimental alue for Jade Gordon. My aide made this for me because she got tired of seeing me carry mine around my neck, Gordon said. I really, really cared about this bag. ..because a lot of feeling went into it. Kimberl Boley ' s canvas bag was also a handmade gift. Her sorority mother decorated it with sunflowers and sorority letters. My bag showed part of my personality. Boley said. I was really outgoing and I was a really social person. Luralei Martin carried a large, brightly-colored PlaySkool backpack. She also said she thought her bag. ith ail of its pnmary colors, expressed her personalii . I thought that it said that I was a fun-lo ing person, Martin said. It ' s PlaySkool, it s Sesame Street, it ' s the Electric Company: it s all these things wrapped up in one. .A good value was also a nice incentive w hen students choose their bookbag. I ordered some books and they gave me a free bag, ' Shelly Walker said about her floral tote. M backpack got chewed up b my Alaskan malamute. 1 graduate this semester and I didn ' t want to go buy a S15 backpack, so 1 just used this to get me by. Nathan Diefendorf carried more than books in his knapsack. The neighbor kids lost a puppy and I went chasing after it. Diefendorf said. When I caught it. I had to put in my back- pack. Diefendorfs pack had weathered other unusual happenings in the two years he owned it. It had been run over by a truck before. ' Diefendort said. We (my friends and I) were putting all of our stuff in the back of a truck. I thought that one of my friends had put it (my backpack ) in the back, but he had sat it beside me, by the wheel. We backed up and felt a bump, so we looked and there was my backpack, sitting there on the ground. Backpacks pro ided a fun way to express personal styles. .Although there were as many different reasons to carry back- packs as there were Northwest students, one thing was agreed on: students lived out of their backpacks, making them neces- sary for sur ival. From necessity to pack fashion into a ons Lugging Pains Crick, crack there went the back. As students piled on the weight in their back- packs, annoying back pains shot through their spine. Discomfort and sore shoulders were the effects of carrying loo many books loo often. To deal w iih the problem of stress and strain in the neck and shoulders, students were advised to change shoulders or wear it (the backpack) on both shoulders to equalize the load, Greg Thomas, chiropractor, said. Time spent socializing with friends or walking to class while lugging heavy packs around also threatened healthy backs. Although there were no reponed cases of back pains specifically related to carry ing around the heavy backpacks, Thomas said it could be a contributing factor to something bigger. It could be affecting people down the road, he said. Symptoms of carrying hea y backpacks varied from person to person. The common ailment of students suffering from back stress were headaches and stiff necks. According to a University of Vermont study, most back problems developed when people entered their 20s and 30s. 0 erstraining the back early could have damaging effects later in life. Staying balanced and taking a load off made all the difference in the quest for a happy, healthy back. Backpacks 11