University of Arkansas Monticello - Boll Weevil Yearbook (Monticello, AR)

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106 Student Life One of the most universal student complaints from grade school through college is that the year is too long, that time seems to be creeping along. Actually, time always moves at the same rate. (Exceptions - the last two minutes of a football game, the last minute of a basketball game.) Involved as we are in the daily rou- tine, we sometimes lose track of the day, or some- times month, and in rare occasions, the year. Some students find that moving in and out of a place serve as good orientation points. The year begins, One must move in. Everything. Toothbrush, tapes, swizzle stick, plants, clothes, old bottles, useless magazines, stereos, televisions ... and the list goes on. There are two basic problems to moving out. First, one must assemble this mountain of junk in a halfway organized manner. This means boxes, open drawers, cluttered floors, blocked doors and more. Some students are almost sentimental about leaving a dorm room, apartment or trailer. In most cases, the former abode was the scene of a lot of fun and a lot of work. Others could care less. Transient people, they slam the door and move on. That brings us to the second problem: what does one do with the now-mobile home? The fully loaded car contains most of what one personally owns. Well, there are three options. Go home to the parents, put it in storage, or move in somewhere else. Of course, one might choose to burn his possessions but that type of irrational behavior ceased about the time Bob Dylan had his first hit. Protest is out. A friend once described his moving out experience, but | was moving out at the time and | wasn’t listening to him. You see, that’s what moving out does to you. It distorts time, really puts everything out of whack. It’s also dirty and if you’re a woman, you can break your nails easily. Probably the worst thing about moving out is that, for once in one’s life, one must do something almost all by himself.

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the way the media wants it interpreted. That’s why it’s sometimes hard to cate- gorize a year. It seems that most news has a singularly depressing effect. Most of what we associate with a given year is obtained through the news media. It surrounds us, on radio, television, news- print, on anything that will convey the facts FEAR ON THE SILVER SCREEN The film industry experienced difficulties in getting down to earth after Star Wars. This year’s movies include ‘‘Alien,’’ a technically em- bellished B-grade horror movie, “Rocky Il,’’ a sequel to ‘“‘Rocky”’ which is a lesson in redundancy and two movies showcasing Brooke Shields, a talented teen- ager who is-touted as the next sex symbol, yet still asks her mother’s permission to date. There was once a time when ac: tivists and concerned citizens ral- lied around songs or slogans. Now they rally around movies, and ‘‘The China Syndrome” should be a clas- sic example of coming out at pre- cisely the correct moment. In the wake of Three Mile Island. our first nuclear mishap, the anti- nukes flocked to it and revered its message: calamity, catastrophe, death, destruction and radiation, starring Jane Fonda. Robert De- Nero starred in ‘‘The Deerhunter,” a tense representation of the envi- ronment, the first such movie to overcome the stigma of Vietnam. THE SKY IS FALLING Amid the debris of inflation, DC-10’s, unemployment, an energy crisis that few want to recog nize and yet be- grudgingly pay a dollar a gallon for gasoline, one figure shines through. Up through the chaos and a vacation at Camp David has resurrected a new Jimmy Carter, Super President. The smiles are fading, replaced by a stoop and enumerable wrinkles characteristic of his office. In a last ditch effort to win back his popularity, President Carter has shuffled his cabinet and is playing political solitaire with new energy policies and a bold new front to the Americar. people. This has been a typical year, actually. 108 Student Life IN THE RED Inflation ‘redlined’ this year, per- haps signaling that the U.S. econom- ic engine is about to blow. Economic advisors predict a slow down, also called recession. As if it’s not enough trying to stretch a dollar these days one won- ders if he’ll even get a chance to spend it, what with dodging obsta- cles like Skylab. Luckily for America, it returned to earth in Australia’s outback causing concern among the wallaby community. Hamburg resi- dents were less fortuante as they found it difficult to evade two torna- does which crisscrossed their town within a week of one another. es MEESTER,