Texas Tech University - La Ventana Yearbook

“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.^ ”