Ouachita Baptist College - Ouachitonian Yearbook (Arkadelphia, AR)

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OPPOSITE PAGE: The rainy season hit Ouachita in the fall and made it necessary for students to carry an umbrella, as these are, whether or not it was raining when the students left their dorms. TOP LEFT: Using the computer system in registration made changes that were foreign to the returning students as well as to the freshmen. Deb- bie Click finds that registration takes organization in moving from one station to the next. ABOVE: Ginger Devorak and Terry Raney attend the BSU watermelon supper that was held at the beginning of the year. LEFT: Before the national general election in November a mock election was held on campus with President Nixon coming out the winner. Bob Baker is making his selection in the sub. Student life—17

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Rain and changes begin school year The life at Ouachita has a rebirth every year at the first of September. Many old and new students come to live and study here. Some of them making it and others not. But each student looks to the new year ahead of him discovering what Ouachita is. This year’s large freshman class en- countered many changes and im- provements over last year such as girls living in Conger, a boys’ dorm, and a com- puter system used by the registrar’s of- fice. By last summer every room in the girls’ dorms had been reserved for this year but there were still some applying to come here. To solve this situation, Conger was repainted and draped, the locks were changed and new furniture was added converting it into a girls’ dorm. Fall registration was taken care of by the use of a computer system. This was suppose to make future registration easier and student information available more readily. Any student could describe the first part of the year-the rainy weather, the social club activities, and the controversy of an election year. Each student could remember the numerous days of rain in which he slosh- ed through mud puddles in route to class. How could any girl from Cone Bottoms forget those mornings in which she woke up to the sound of caterpillars eating leaves outside her window? Or how could any boy in Daniel forget the dead cricket in his coffee cup? 16—Student life

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— — + —- — —— ap eget — = = eae O-VOt 9 08: ‘ t f j OPPOSITE PAGE TOP: Pam Gaines and Chuck Pipkins stroll past the massive construction site of Evans Student Center. OPPOSITE PAGE BOTTOM LEFT: One of the many student librarians arranges books in the library and attends the front desk. OPPOSITE PAGE BOTTOM RIGHT: Don, “the Coke man”, services one of the many vending machines on the campus. TOP LEFT: On week ends students seem to disappear as did Phyllis Oliver. TOP RIGHT: Guitar picking, singing, studying and pedestrians all find their way on campus. LEFT: In girls’ dorms, reminders may be found of what the after-math of rich pastries will be. i 18—Life at OBU C—O ee - - ee SSE SS ee eee ee Se