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

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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

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• 1 Searching for the perfect home away from home is an important part of an Ole Miss student ' s life. Dorms, apartments, houses, and sorority or fraternity houses are a few of the options that a student has. Although freshmen are required to live in the dorm, many anxiously await the day they will be able to move into an homier atmosphere. Dorm life offers the opportunity to meet new people and find out interesting habits of old friends. Staying up all night to study or just talking with friends makes living in the dorm an experience in itself.. Sometimes this is the first time a student is not living under the same roof as mom and dad. There are no curfews for students on their own and learning to clean your room is sometimes impossible. Many students eventually Make their home off campus or to a sorority or fraternity house. Convincing mom and dad that living in an apartment or house is really cheaper is the first step t in getting off campus.. This may soon become -g fictitious because utility and telephone bills come (7) in and groceries must be bought. Overall it gives a— ' student a sense of accomplishment to be paying bills like a real adult, even though mom and dad usually foot the bill. Otherwise getting a job is the only way to pay for everything. Wherever one decides to spend his college days, roomates, studying all night, parties, and a constant mess are all a part of college life. Poppy Pruett L. Stockett dem t mhow lon Awe oniP KNOW Vi LL ACE 191111111.11111111 WARNING TS Assfral all 1151111;T AT All Vitae ft it WIWI