Arkansas Tech University - Agricola Yearbook (Russellville, AR)

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The lake is a popular recreation spot for Tech students, as well as many area residents. Rhonda Sullins is Arkansas Tech ' s 1980 Homecoming Queen. She was also second runner-up in the Miss Tech pageant. Arkansas Tech University combines a higher educa- tion with recreation and fun. Russellville has parades. Tucker Coliseum has basketball games and Tech has Greek Week tug of war. 8 Introduction

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ifjgfjMfl Il ' a ' ' ' f ill • Jl In :-■ When uue oil came to this school uue planned to get on education, but as uue go through school uue begin to realize that uue ' re getting so much more: college isn ' t just o school, it ' s q uuay of life! For many of us. it uuas the first time we had to share our room uuith someone else. It uuas a strange experience. It takes o lot of patience and real effort on both ports to live uuith a roommate. But gradually, you begin to get used to it ond usually enjoy it. It ' s good to have someone to talk over oil of the neuu experiences uue ' re hav- ing. UJe learned that in some uuays your college roommate is closer than your sister. She begins to knouu uuhen you ' re unhappy, uuhen you ' ve been stood up. she shares your teors. and uuhen you get on fl on the test you ' ve studied so hord ' for, she ' s proud of you. In the dorm, there ' s aluuays someone to share your happy times as uuell as your bod. It ' s so handy to have someone uuith a popcorn popper living douun the hall or someone to go get o pizza uuithin o moment ' s notice. ULIe begon to share our experiences uuith one another and uue learned an important lesson, houu to relate to other people. Some of us learned another lesson, .uue learned that some- times you hove to fight for uuhat you believe in. That uuorking hard for something only mokes it more precious uuhen uue finally get it. Many of us hod to uuork hard to stoy in school ond at times uue uuould stop ond think, Is it uuorth all this studying, oil this money?- ' - ' For a feuu of us, the ansuuer uuas no. But most of us soid, Yes! It ' s uuorth it to me. I ' ll uuork harder if I have to, I ' ll study more, but this is o greot time in my life and it ' s uuorth It! (tont. on poo. °) Introduction

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The Crabaugh building is one of the beautiful build- ings located on the Tech campus. Our uuqy oP life (cont- from page 6) UUe learn so much in our college years. In our classes we learned our facts, but out of class we learned about the world. LUe began to look ot our classes not as something we had to go to but as o new experience. In our geog- raphy class we learned where Russia wos but for the first time something clicked and we realized what Russia meant and why it was important for us to know where it was and what it exported. UUe went to Oiology class and learned about life but we now un- derstood how precious it was and how easily it was lost. UUe learned about war from our history books and we suddenly knew the fear of war present. UUe wondered what ujo would do if we were drafted. UUould we go? UUould we protest? UUe learned more at college than we ever dreamed. For mony of us we learned that there were ways of living other than the way we ' d always lived. That there were people with backgrounds different from ours and we liked them. UUe learned that just be- cause someone close to us was a bigot, we didn ' t have to be. LUe could chose our own friends and go our own way. UUe stopped try- ing to fit in with the crowd and realized that it was good to be an individual, it just made the world better. (cont. o page JO) Dr. Kenneth Kersh, president of Arkansas Tech Uni- versity, takes a stroll around the campus. Introduction 9