Ball State University - Orient Yearbook (Muncie, IN)

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ear Mom, Dad and the whole crew The first few days were usually the roughest for most frosh since it was their big move away from home, but you'd better believe those letters got fired off rather quickly telling of their experiences Dear Mom, Dad and the whole crew: It's been just about a week since I told you goodbye and believe it or not I'm still in one piece. My Converse gym shoes look like the ones you made me throw away just before I leftg that's not saying anything about the bleeding blisters on my feet! Books are outrageous! I spent my last dollar on a Harbrace College Handbook. Mom, I don't even have a dime to make an emergency phone call. lhint, hintj. My courses seem to be interesting but I'm afraid none of them are going to be easy. The only thing the instructors want us to do now that we are away from home is STUDY, STUDY then STUDY some more. I often wonder if they're really human. My roommate and I seem to be pretty compatible. She's taken the full responsibility of handing me my silverware in the cafeteria line, since I can just barely reach it standing on my tip-toes. The Page 16 - Moving in food has been good and, yes, I'm eating three square meals per day. We can even have all of the salad and soft ice cream our stomachs can hold. Johnny would love that! Friday night before the SCGB's Activities Night, our complex had a picnic dinner with hot dogs and potato chips. We tromped all the way over to the Student Center, found Cardinal Hall without too much trouble and wandered around looking at all of the different displays. 1 think Ball State must have a club or organization for every interest under the sun: frats, coffee houses, Chess Players and an Aquarian Club, Judo, a Gay Liberation Group, Better Business Bureau and even an Airplane Club. One of the most original displays I remember was the Zodiac Club. They had guys painted green and dressed in crazy, flashy costumes with signs that read, Don't Follow Me. It was really cute. The live radio fx xg, station also was kind of unique. They had a beautiful antique radio you would just love. Right after the displays we were rushedoutside for a Pep Rally with the marching band and all. The football coach gave a talk and then we sang the school's fight song. It was amazing how the chilling night air, the clapping and yelling made me feel just a little more a part of BSU. To end the week with a good beat, Nigel played at a free dance in the Student Center Ballroom. As I accidentally bumped into people, I learned a few more names and even saw some familiar faces in the crowd. We're getting ready to go to the football game against Toledo so I'd better say goodbye. I just want you to know how much I miss setting the table and cleaning the upstairs bathroom, fha, hal. Really, I miss you all and send lots, lots of love. Write me soon OK? Love, Your College Freshman f Q

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we X ,X W 'il ...rf -XJ , if A ,. lf 1 SQS, , :x xiii . 1 1 t .C:1' J. I 13 'ANA 'I ,II BY MARMIE HOUCHENS AND BRUCE KONKLE Two's o company, three's a crowd but six roommates is iust downridtt ridiculous. But that's exactly what happened to 1,200 students when they rejstered in their respective donns on the first day of school this year at Ball State. With enrollment up by 4.11 percerrt, the Housing Office faced the difficult problem of firlling rooms for incoming freshmen because residence halls were already full. As a result of the overcrowdness, hundreds of students had to be housed temporarily in dorm lounges, study lounges and rooms origimlly set up for double occupancy. It was not until the last two humid weeks of August that the Housing Office begat redizing iust how big a space problem they were going to have. Besides increased en-ollment, two other problems, the hlgh Page 18 - Dorm Crisis -'4 l 4 KN' 1 -- 1 ,J cost of off-campus living md the allotment of private rooms, also made the matter worse. With food prices still skyrocketing, many iuniors and seniors found it easier to move back into the dormitory. They lost some freedom but they gained o cook plus several other benefits. Three hundred private room allotments definitely worsened the situation, accoreing to Housing Office officials. Most of the students who paid for their private room didn't want to give it up for various reasons and there was no way they could be made to give it up. A few were kind enough to take on a roommate, though. The overcrowdedness tumed into an extra big headache for both the students and the Housing Office. Working extra hours to solve Qin.. f A t 1 u the situation, the housing staff came up with a few solutions but several students were still left holding the bog. By Oct. 1,40 of the 65 students who hd been living in hall lounges were moved into rooms, seven had been offered space in a room but had refused them, three were given the opportunity to move rooms Oct. 1 ond415 students were given no choice at all, so they remained where they were. Needless to say malty of the freshmen in the overcrowded rooms were irate about the entire mess. Besides not having any privacy whatsoever, they dso had little room for all their personal belongings. We ranted and raved, recalled Om Peters, a resident of a three-man room in Swinford. We didn't know what to do with the stuff we brought and had to send a lot of img