University of Rhode Island - Renaissance / Grist Yearbook (Kingston, RI)

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Remember all the attention you got from Health Services? — How they’d trudle you off with packages of pills, nosedrops, and (yecch!) chloromint? How you decided to get better? What, no epidemics this year? Was that really swine flu?! How bad were the food fights this year? They actually picketed the dining halls!? . . There goes our referendum . . . What was RIPIRG up to? The Library? They finally moved the dewey decimals out of Rodman. (Rodman? we asked as Freshmen.) And all the cards work-study people hopelessly sorted through would soon be sent out by computer.

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The debates about the merits of the architecture of the Fine Arts Center . . .? What about the BSC? There were the conservatory, the observatory . . . The beloved Chafee caves that no freshman should have missed, . How about the Ram’s Den, or the Willows? Where will we go? The bubble didn’t collapse! And our granite monolith: University of Rhode Island will probably stand forever. White Hall was in its second year of operation. But the greenhouses burnt down, and with the PC blaze, half-forgotten fire codes became strictly enforced. Remember all the marijuana they found and burned over on Aquidneck Island? (What happened to the scales stolen from Kelly?) The old bowling alley was torn down to make way for pinball games. And a new hairdresser’s moved into the old barbershop — you know, Unisex?!

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Other local innovations included various energy harnessing plans or schemes. As spring approached, joggers steamed past. Crew and the sailing team were ready to meet the first thaw. Campus got a cleaning. The giant mud-puddled quad slowly transformed itself into a frisbee field. As the last set of finals got closer, some wistful smiles appeared over the tops of old books covers. Graduation. Where will it lead us? 9