University of Mississippi - Ole Miss Yearbook (Oxford, MS)

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eastAatl, zeip Ole Miss, with a one-square-mile campus and under 10,000 students, is the smallest school in the Southeastern Conference. The result is a close-knit campus, where everybody seems to know or know of, everybody else. Walking to class is almost like being at a cocktail party-getting from one place to another is impossible without stopping a few times to chat with friends. The Grove, the Circle, the collumnade of Magnolias from Guyton Hall to the library, combine to make the Ole Miss campus one of the most beautiful around. Student behavior is almost.as predictable as the seasons. Fall means Rush, Bid Day, swaps, and football parties. Visitors to campus might assume that blue blazers Tuck Loong are mandatory attire, but they are merely strongly encouraged. As fall turns to winter, students, like bears, hibernate. The sudden realization that exams are a few weeks away, causes students to stay home and try to catch up. The second semester starts up slowly, as students resolve to study more. The resolution is soon weakened when spring arrives. Spring means riding around in convertables, drinking beer, throwing frisbees in the Grove and theme parties. The campuswide blowout called Dixie Week marks the end of the semester. Students take their exams, go home, and start preparing themselves to return in the fall and repeat the cycle. Hamp Overton Tuck Loong

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e40-004 Age Larry Bonds ♦ 3 Larry Bonds The faint echos of the Old South can still be heard at Ole Miss, either delighting or dismaying students, depending on their outlook. History is everywhere-in the buildings, trees and even people. Tradition flows forward like the mighty Mississippi, flowing over and around attempting to force change. The ghosts of the Confederacy can still be seen, with statues, plaques and stained glass windows commemorating the ultimate sacrifice made by half-a-million Southerners in defense of their country. Students still wave Rebel flags at football games in spite of massive administration efforts to get them to wave something less controversial. Dixie still thrills the hearts of Rebel fans, just as it always has. Ole Miss students still dress up for football games, often amusing and puzzling outsiders. Football weekends still mean visiting in the Grove with family and friends and partying all night on Fraternity Row. Southern gentlemen, trained since birth to be experts on whiskey and women, find ways around administration attempts to restrict or eliminate drinking and partying. Ole Miss is still ranked as one of the top party schools in the nation, especially in the South. Memphis and New Orleans still draw students on weekends, except that now students take cars instead of trains. Some students spend more weekends in the lobby of the Peabody or on Bourbon Street than they do on campus. Most things, though, don ' t change very much. Delta boys still come to school with more money and nicer cars than everybody else, no matter how much their parents had to borrow to pay for everything. And students from other parts of the state look on with poorly disguised envy and say that they don ' t approve of living high on borrowed money. Some things will never change. 2. KA Old South brings friends closer. 3. The Warehouse after the big fire, February 14, 1986. 4. Fans support the Rebs at the I SU game in Baton Rouge. 5. Registration as always brings long waiting lines. Opening — 9