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FAl L M Arts and sciences sophomore Jimmie Johnson makes his bed in Keeneland Hall while John McClure, an agriculture sophomore, fills his drawers w:th socks. —Photo by Tom Moran North Campus celebrated the beginning of the new school year with a watermelon feast. Celeste Nicklas, a freshman resident of Patterson Hall, finds that eating watermelon and keeping clean is a little hard to do. —Photo by Barton Branscum A frustrated D.J. Grant reaches the late registration desk after standing in line for nearly two hours. Grant is an undeclared pre-law major. —Photo by David Cooper
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A freshman from a small Kentucky town tells of his First ressions t was the worst of times, it was the worst of times. The United States of America, the richest country in the world, had slipped into a recession. The misery index (a measurement invented by President Jimmy Carter as a means of combining the rates of inflation and unemploy- ment) hovered above 22 percent. Many students were out of work for an entire summer In Ashland, for example, several hundred college stu- dents who had hoped for summer jobs with the city's larg- est employer, Armco Steel, were out of luck when the company announced massive layoffs due in part to the crippled automobile industry. The beginning of the fall semester, consequently, came as a sort of comic relief after the trying summer of 1980. Nearly 23,000 students, a record number, pushed back into classrooms despite the disheartening facts running through the backs of their minds: 52 Americans were still held hostage in Iran after nearly a year; Russia battled with Afghanistan while Iran fought with Iraq; and on the domestic scene, reluctant American voters were faced with deciding which presidential candidate could best handle the pressing issues of the economy and world peace. But for a college freshman, such issues must take the back seat to the concerns of settling in to college life. Freshman Dwight Ginn came from Milton, an Ohio River town of about 750 people located between Louisville and Cincinnati. I brought the necessities, he said. A TV and a cooler. As with many freshmen, Ginn was faced with the disad- vantage of not knowing anyone on his floor upon moving in. This disadvantage was complicated by the fact thatGinn was assigned one of 168 spaces reserved for freshmen in Kirwan Tower, formerly an upperclass men's dorm. Ginn got a long chance to meet some fellow students in the Student Center Ballroom one day after moving in. Thousands of students waiting to pay fees and receive financial aid formed lines that wound down stairs and spilled onto the patios. It was obvious that the recession had hit hard, as a record number of students received finan- cial aid. The world political scene continued to roar in the back- ground, but Ginn and other first-year students undoubt- edly had little time to concentrate on foreign and domestic policy. There were textbooks to read, ballgames to win and parties to attend. And those were the best of times. -CHRIS CAMERON AND ANDY SAULSBURY Cynthia Ramsey and a friend tote a refrigerator back to their room in Kirwan 111. Ramsey, is a business and economics freshman. —Photo by Tom Moran 18 FALL Moving In
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