Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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CLEARDT ooooooooo LASSIC dates off on your syllabus and take an extra long, hot shower. Can't you just imagine hundreds of students doing the exact same things you’re doing right now? Certainly each individual can't be the only one doing a certain thing at a given time. This afternoon you’ll feel like the person who’s shouting the loudest for a field goal and yet you have to know that somewhere in time, someone else may have called out just a little bit louder, someone who did the exact same thing you are doing right now only thirty years ago. It’s kind of an eerie It’s one of those days. It’s a day that, at first glance, may seem like a thousand other days you've lived through already, but upon closer inspection you realize that this is a rare and original day that no one has ever encountered before. You know you should go to the library to do some research on that term paper, but you also know it’s not due until Dead Week and that is practically an eternity away. Besides, it’s only partly cloudy and the Beavers are playing football at two this afternoon. You’ll arrange your notebooks, mark some A football game is one reason to get out of the house and get away from the educational pressures of school for awhile. Strategic advice is aired by coaches and players with each game. Friends reacquaint themselves with each other and new friends are made. If you had taken a random sample of the 97.126 fans about why they chose to view this particular Rosebowl game of OSU vs Iowan Halkeyes in November of 1957. you could be assured that no two answers would be exactly alike.

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WILLIAM M. SCIIILDBACII The goals and ideas you shared with your friends aren’t just talk this time and you're going to get good grades and you're go- A SOLITARY FIGURE WALKS and takes advantage of the crisp autumn air and a brightly colored trail, knowing all too well that very soon this favorite park of Oregon State students. located east of Benton Hall, will be shrouded in rainclouds. ing to get involved and you're going to get our more. This is it. It’s to be a clearly classic year.

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idea to imagine someone with a ducktail haircut and black Converse tennis shoes sitting in bleachers where you will be sitting this after- SHOWING THEIR SPIRIT and cheering the Beavers, students catch some rays and to check out the new faces in the crowd, ensuring the bleachers of Parker Stadium in the fall of 1987 were more than filled to capacity level every football game. noon, cheerleading on an OSU team. It’s all the same, only different, on another clearly classic day.