Texas Tech University - La Ventana Yearbook (Lubbock, TX)

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II 53 YOGIE 129 Liz and Bev capture the year ' s events in the magazine La Ventana Tina focuses your attention on the highlights of the sports world at Tech Melody gives a view of dorm and sorority life as it is at Tech PLAYBOY 199 Libby and Sandy provide an overview of the men ' s dorms and fraternities and their activities of the year Texas Business 293 Ronny sumrrjarizes the year ' s events in the administrative, business and mass communications worlds THE SJITURD tY EVENING POST 3 r«3 Gigi looks at music and the humanities at Tech Q c Sabrina covers the graduates, law school, med OkJ school and engineering, the future of the world Saturday ¥ I « r| ;:5MTK7 I ' !If Tracy sums up Tech ag sciences, home economics and armed forces VIE A jt ryrz °° students who attend Tech . . . the 4rOO way they are.

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I After our second year to edit the La Vcn- tana, some things seemed much easier. But there were still several rough edges that many people helped us smooth out. Throughout the year, many things, both good and bad, happened during the produc- tion of the La Ventana. However, the best pan was working with you, our staff and all the people here at Tech. Without sounding like Academy Awards, there are many people we would like to thank. First, our outstanding staff, who without their dedication and hard work to the finish, you would not be reading this La Ventana. Many times we griped at them and stayed on your backs, but it paid off. They were tre- mendous and we are extremely proud of each and everyone of them. Also, the Student Pub- lications office staff, Pam, Barbara, Kay and Richard Lytle, all worked with us and were a great help in prcxiucing the finished product. A very special and heartfelt thanks goes to Darrel and the photography staff. Without their hard work and late hours we couldn ' t have done it. We thank them very much. Thanks go to Trac7 and Ronny for their extra hours in helping with two of our largest deadlines. Our families were invaluable. Their under- standing and support helped us through many hard times. Without their understand- ing of our late dinners and short tempers we could not have made it through the year. Included in our friends is the advertising staff. Without their bad jokes and sense of humor, our days would have been a lot longer. Special note to Malcolm Bordelon and Bob Fuchs for their patience when we bit off their heads as they came in the office to visit. A special note to Jean Finley whose guid- ance and faith in us never waivered. We appreciated her help and she was sorely missed by all of us. It has been a long hard year, but a very worthwhile one. It is our baby and we present it to you — the students — with loving care. f - rt Staff La Ventana Co-editors Elizabeth Edwin Beverly Jones Magazine Editors Tina Driessner Melody Donges Elizabeth Thurman Sandy Mitchell Ronny Hutchinson Gigi McKinney Sabrina Houser Tracy Brown Staff Mark Brown Kristie Kerbow Kane Kidd Copywriters Donnay Adair Tracy Brown Bobby Pickett Ann Reeves Jody Sneed Jeff Tinnell Director of Student Publications Richard Lytle Director of Photography Darrel Thomas Photographers Dave Dmytriw Richard Halim Mark Hobgood Jerry Raign Steve Rowel 1 Contributing Photographers Ma. Faulkner Ron Jenkins Mike Perez Mark Rogers Business Affairs Jean Finley Barbara Boatwright Pam Knerr Kay Perkins Advertising Kristie Krahn Jan Parsons Art Editors Geoff Hager Carol Houk f Acknowledgements Lubbock Area Merchants Jerry Clark Taylor Publishing Co. Craig Pletenik Keith Samples Vic Cooper Ranching Heritage Center University News and Publications Robert Ewalt Clint Formby Dean Killion David Nail Lawrence Graves Bill Tynan, Reese A.F.B. Organizational Representatives Billy I. Ross and the department of mass communications All other academic colleges and depanments University Daily staff f

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rV. rO: vH . :V TfeCw sWewfe teti As the summer months ended, students began packing their worldly goods into cars and trailers for the trek back to Tech. Cars lined the highways from Dallas. Houston, San Antonio, Austin and yes, even Shallowater. Each person viewed the new year with anticipation, hopeful this would indeed be their best year. Lubbock became flooded with weary travelers trying to find directions to this apartment complex or that dorm. University police were con- stantly in demand as parking lots overflowed and the ever-present towing began. Old friends were reunited and new friends were made as everyone sought to make a home of their new house or dorm room. Questions like How was your summer? and What have you been doing? filled the air. Students and parents struggled to unload heavily laden cars and trucks. It always seemed there were 20 people and their belongings waiting when the elevators broke. Invariably, it was also time to carry in the heaviest boxes. Carrying hanging clothes seemed to deform many hands. Ordering long distance for dorm rooms or just a phone installed if you lived in an apartment or house were top priority events once students settled in. Then came registration. Complaints of bad registration times and closed classes were whispers across campus on Aug. 29-30. Tech ' s 23,000 students were ushered through the paces in the Lubbock Municipal Coliseum and many cned and raved about Tech ' s lack of pre-registration. Some threw up their hands in despair and opted to transfer to other schools rather than face an awful schedule of classes. Many forlorn students with good registration times were unable to enter the coli- seum until 5 p.m., Friday, because of lost data cards and registration forms. Many students, after all the registration hassles were over, missed their first classes because of lost schedule cards. Lines at the Traffic and Parking offices seemed to grow in leaps and bounds as dorm and commuter parking spaces were doled out. Because of late registration times, many students were delegated to the dirt commuter lots by the coliseum. In order to register, outstanding traffic tickets were paid with money scraped together before the semester began. Thinking all the perplexities of starting a new semester were over, students began classes. Then came the lines and lines and more lines at the bookstores. Tech Book- store expanded its number of check out lanes last year, which apparently helped the situation since lines wound around the bookstore only once this year. Those students lucky enough had arranged their class schedules according to loca- tion on campus. Others charged from the Business Administration or Foreign Lan- guage buildings to Holden Hall every other hour. Freshmen and some upperclass- men resorted to maps to find their elusive classes. Many students were seen walking around buildings looking for the name of that particular hall. Welcome back. Welcome back to dorm food, Monday Night Football, beer and popcorn. Welcome back to working schedules around M.A.S.H. and the afternoon soap operas, cutting classes, term papers, rotten professors (good ones too) and all the other characteristics of a typical year at Texas Tech. Welcome home, Techsans.