University of Florida - Tower / Seminole Yearbook (Gainesville, FL)

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3) J. Webster Flickering orange light reflected off the walls of the Infirmary and Sledd and Buckman Halls as the flames consuming Johnson Hall shot skyward. One of the most memorable events of the past year was also a graphic display of what may happen to the buildings at OF with fire code violations. A few blocks away the first of three parking was ready for use. After spending $3 million on the three-level garage and designating most of the parking spaces to faculty, they refused to park there. It ' s too far to walk to my office was a common although it was only a five minute trek. Students, however, were not afraid to walk to the polls for student government elections this year. In an unusual display of student concern, the low turnout to vote was broken when crowds of students showed up. Nobody could remember seeing so many students vote. Many voters were engineers angry at the Wave party for threatening the Fair. The threat inspired the engineers to form the Express Party. After trying to get a radio station run by students for students started through the journalism school and failing, several students became fed up. They decided to start an underground station, WRAG (Radio Alternative Gainesville), at 88.1 on your FM dial. All volunteer, they used minimal equipment and their own albums. It wasn ' t the best technically, but its content was everything a college student could ask for. Throughout the year, many changes took place. Some were obvious, others were subtle, still others could only be seen by looking at things from an unusual view. — John Webster 4) E. Come Opening 7

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Gators Live Life The Fullest This year meant elections, SG elections, the year of politics on campus; The Clash of the Titans. Exciting year for all students! — Joe Gufford Political Science Class ' 88 1) David Waggie bites the Big One ... 2) A Georgia defender will resort to just about anything to stop a gator from scoring! 3) One of Florida ' s best known scenes is: Sunset at the beach. 4) Whether clowning around or serious, gator ' s will do almost anything to get comfortable and watch the Homecoming Parade. 6 Opening

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11 P. Phillips The day of an average student began 7 am and noon, when the time arrived to force himself out of that comfortable bed and convince himself that it is necessary to attend classes to pass them. After sitting through what had to be the most boring lecture of the year — for each of his first three classes — he had a two period break before his last class of the day. Feeling hungry since he had to skip breakfast to make it to class on time, he went to the Brew for lunch and to catch the last half of their movie of the day. After lunch he went out to the Union North Lawn to catch a few rays to help keep that tan as long as possible. Relaxing in the grass, he decided to go see what new group, the Crusados, when they play the Orange Brew that weekend. Passing an Alligator stand on the way to his next class he picked one up. While for class to start, he opened the paper and scanned the headlines. Not much interesting going on in the world, so he flips to the and classifieds. The personals and sections are good for a laugh, as Looking up from the paper, he found that class began 15 minutes earlier. He decided to pass through the Plaza of the America ' s, just to see what was The big attraction was Brother Jed and Sister Cindy, the fundamentalist preachers everyone loved to heckle. Also out were the usual assortment of tie-dye T-shirt vendors, frisbee players, and sleeping and studying students. Tiring of Jed and Cindy, he went home, grabbed some food and turned on the TV. Around 7:30 it was time to go to Library East 2nd floor to study and socialize. After run- ning into some friends, everyone decided they ' ve had enough studying for one night and it was then time to go out. Central City was the choice. Getting home at 2:30 am and setting his alarm for 9 am he goes to sleep, suddenly realizing he had a 9:35 class the next day. This section was an attempt to record as many as possible of the activities undertaken by students. Since there is no average or typical day, we tried to cover a wide variety of activities and hope that we have something for everyone. As well, we tried to cover enough to introduce everyone to something they haven ' t tried ... yet. — John Webster 8 Student Life