Angelo State University - Rambouillet Yearbook (San Angelo, TX)

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,f 311' Nw, 'TEM x xxug .. .- .omg sw. A K i. V-ef' ff! -- V X 0 .if .. V. X - Q. 1 u Republicans vote straight, sweep mock elections The Repulican Party, in what turned out to be a foreshadowing of Election Day, swept the polls in a mock election held in conjunction with homecoming queen balloting. Of the approximately 600 ASU stu- dents who voted in the mock election, 53.4 percent chose to vote a straight Republican ticket. President Reagan easily defeated Democratic challenger Walter Mon- dale by a vote of 447 to 130. In the bitterly contested Senate race, U.S. Rep. Phil Gramm extended the Republican sweep and beat state Sen. Lloyd Doggett 408 to 160. The mock election was added to home- coming queen voting to increase par- ticipation in the election, ASUSA President Tim Weatherby said. He said the number voting doubled to 20 percent of the student body. - Gary Dulude Experience he gained from working on several daily newspapers gives Jim Batts the know- how to advise reporters and co-ordinate the election issue. lArt Hanson PhotofASU News Sz Information? Editor David Ramirez works on the front page layout. tDavid Lozano Photol Ram Page reporters, Jim Batts, and Dr. John Jenson await election results. tDavid Lozano Photol Rhonda Woodall, Alex Draughon, Yolanda Melendez, and Kris Ballard worked late into the night setting copy and laying out pages. tDavid Lozano Photo!

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Election special competes with dailies, gives first-hand experience Complete coverage achieved Election night has long been the Super Bowl of newspaper coverage, and ASU journalism students got an early experience while working on the The Ram Page Election Special. About 45 students worked election night and some stayed as late as 5 a.m.. Jim Batts, head of the journal- ism department said. Batts and Ram Page Editor David Ramirez said the election issue gave students first-hand experience for working on a professional newspaper. They were competing head up with any daily, Batts said. Batts said the Ram Page moni- tored network TV and The Associat- ed Press for their election returns. The key to the success of the elec- tion issue was planning, Batts said. Pages were laid-out in advance, and stories were pre-written. Election re- sults were then quickly incorporated into the story. I was going around with a big ul- cer, Ramirez said. He said the night strained everything - my ingenu- ity, my self-confidence and my san- ity. Staff writer Barbara Dempsey, who wrote the election overview story, had to find another source when the networks went off the air without giv- ing any official results, forcing her to use the AP broadcast wire. Before midnight I ate, after mid- night I panicked, she said. - Gary Dulude gs: S 20

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Americans 1984 had a promising start. The Summer Games of the XXIII Olym- piad were held in Los Angeles, Calif. US. athletes accumulated nearly 200 gold, silver, and bronze medals. The Soviet-bloc boycott had not marred the competitive spirit of the athletes. But the serene summer of 1984 was shattered by the worst one-day slaughter in U.S. history. James Huberty, 51, ex-security guard. murdered 21 people and in- jured 15 others at a McDonald's in San Ysidro. Calif. Huberty had a reputation for his explosions of rage. 1984 became a year of break- throughs and defeats. Ronald Reagan overwhelmed Wal- ter Mondale with a 49-state sweep in the '84 presidential election. Reagan was supported by every region, every age group and almost. every demogra- phic voting bloc in the U.S. Vanessa Williams, 21, became the first black woman to hold the title of Miss America - and the first Miss America asked to resign her title. The explicit nude scenes of Williams with another woman in Penthouse maga- zine were said to have tarnished the shine in L.A. title of Miss America. Baby Fae was the first infant to receive a simian heart. She carried the heart of a baboon for 21 days be- fore she died-two weeks longer than any other previous recipient of an animal heart. Another breakthrough was that of a 33-year-old ocean geologist. Mis- sion Specialist Kathryn Sullivan be- came the first American woman to walk in space. She took part in the space Shuttle Challenger voyage with six other astronauts. Actor Richard Burton, 58, died this year of a cerebral hemorrhage. Bur- ton received seven Academy Award X .. ' i . ' I V . 5.3 . -, r 'A Z- , gljpvq 7 ,M -fe i'2'f7,....' , ' na Q , . g. 9, 3 K sk, . ,imuiga 0 'JI 'C ,fr E? ag' -ffm ' 4. iii,.'8Li4da i' I ' . A ' qt ' ,l F R N lk:-Qian? ' nominations for his roles in such films such as Becket,,' The Spy Who Came In From the Cold and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. - Phyllis Velez Mary Lou Retton won the all-around gold medal in women's gymnastics and led the women's team to a silver medal. She also won bronze medals for the floor exercise and the uneven parallel bars and took a silver medal for the vault. CAPfWide World Photol Vanessa Williams, the first black Miss Amer- ica was forced to resign her title for nude pho- tographs in Penthouse Magazine. tAPfWide World Photol .. 3 I -aff :af-