Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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After rushing fall quarter. Janet Centz contemplates which sorority she wishes to pledge. At the end of pre-coJ- lege, an incoming freshman has her meal ticket photo tak- en. Tim Geoghegan 24 — Campus Life

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OFF jCAMPUS, The lives of an elite By Amy I. Schneider After going through the trials and tribulations of dorm life, things can only get better, right? That all depends on where you live and who you lease from! The day has come. You ' ve finally earned enough hours and convinced your parents that you ' re ready to move off-campus. But are you really? Do you realize all the disadvantages you may en- counter? Unless you carefully go over each stipulation and get the landlords to write-in further promises, you may be in for the student sting. But some things aren ' t covered in the contract. Some freak accidents do occur. You ' ve got to take everything into account. After the lecture your parents lay on you, it ' s time to look at it through a student ' s point of view. Almost guaranteed, it ' ll be about the best time of your life. Sure, there are some disadvantages, so make the advantages out-weight them! Just think, no more cabin fever enclosed in those four drab brick walls. As far as entertainment goes, the ist is endless. (Athens police are slower than a resident assistant.) Get- togethers and parties are by far the biggest advantage and privilege of the off-campus elite. All in all, it ' s an experience in freedom and responsibility. If you can earn to clean-up dishes, and to stick up to the police and leasers, you can be labeled as an Off-Campus Elite , m Off Campus Living — 23

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freshmen fill out forms for meal cards as part of their pre- coJ ege orientation. FRESHMEN An ode to freshmen By Kim Walker We all have to start somewhere, and it ' s at the bottom where we build the foundation of our future. Freshmen are the novice youngsters their first quarter at OU, the people we love to pick on and joke about just for the fun of it. We laugh at their clothes, laugh at their friends, and even tease them about wearing new white sneak- ers on the first day of classes. We glare at them in the cafeteria, play Twenty Questions when we meet them at a bar, and treat them like children just to get on their nerves. A freshman is an individual, a per- son with thoughts and ideas of his or her own; someone who, like the rest of us, has a dream to fulfill. The thing that makes freshmen so different from the rest of us, however, is the excitement they feel about the future. They ' re anxious to be somebody, a desire which doesn ' t always last and is often hard to find. Nevertheless, everyone, including freshmen, has ex- perienced community showers, hall elections, weekend road trips and hangovers, ignoring quiet hours and driving their neighbors crazy. Fresh- men are people too. It ' s still easy to pick a freshman out in a crowd. First of all, they all have these silly smiles on their faces and are dressed in new school clothes. They don ' t go anywhere alone, except to the bathroom, and they don ' t skip classes, at least not in the first few weeks anyway. They sit near the front in a lecture room, gain weight on cold pizza and cry when they don ' t get mail on a holiday. Freshmen are teens. Freshmen are adults. They are people on the road to becoming whomever they are going to be. That is, if they can survive cafete- ria food, obnoxious roommates and drink- -drown. They ' ve got such a long way to go, yet they ' ve come so far. Young and inspired, they go on fantasizing, hoping someday to be a surgeon, a journalist, or maybe even a presidential candidate. Nevertheless, they are humans and should be looked at like the rest of us, for they will spend the next four years of their lives dreaming in green and white too. njn The Freshman Story 25