Ball State University - Orient Yearbook (Muncie, IN)

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HALLS continued Unique individuals within Shales Hall demonstrate decorative originality by exhibiting trademarks of favorite hobbies on the ceiling. Other residents covered ceilings with black light posters, aluminum foil, and fish nets. He is cute and lithe and tall and thin. Posters of Jacyln Smith, Mickey Mouse, Farrah Fawcett-Majors, and Valparaiso High School cover the cement blocks of his Jeep Hall room. Eddie Bertholet, freshman, never roomed with anyone at home, but likes living with a roommate now because there is now someone to talk to and relate with. ‘The floor tends to become almost like a family.”’ Eddie pondered the phone as he sat cross-legged on his Marsh shopping cart. ““Wagonner is really a zoo; however, in- dividually the guys are really nice. It is asa group that they are awfully rowdy.” Les Anne “‘Lester’’ Dant consumed her chicken noodle-o’s and waved her soup spoon at me. ‘‘Like they say, Co-ed Boredom is Better.’ As president of Hurlbut Hall, Les Anne is active in dorm government and a fourth year resident. She continued, ‘‘Hurlbut is a good cross section of BSU students.” Clad in a long blue bathrobe, Les Anne, a senior from Goodland, described how she made her dorm room into House Beautiful. ‘’| hauled in everything | own — from bamboo bird cage to flowered cur- tains to illegal hamster.”’ Youth of America — be happy but be warned. Annette Funicello is no longer with us. Ball State’s residence halls house freaks from Geshwin to Aereosmith to Manilow to Debussy. It is getting late... The William Tell over- ture has begun to die down, Larry Sells quits jogging the stairwells in three sweat- suits, and even the Domino’s man has disappeared. Someone opened the bathroom door and screamed, ‘Your mother chews on kitty litter’ to assure the profound reply, ‘’Lizzie Borden took an ax and so on and so forth” surely learned in English 205. Whre are the carefree bobby soxers and those in raccoon coats waving red and white MAC pennants? They are gone; but Gidget still has pride. Something to do, perhaps, with nine sup- posedly grown college men prancing in long red underwear in the Palmr fishbowl, singing ‘‘Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.” Goodnight, Muncie. Good- night, John-Boy. 24 Halls

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Tnere’s no place like home’ makes the Crosley Hall room of Gwynn Owens, freshman from Madison, unique. Crosley is an all-female hall and Gwynn believes the whole atmosphere seems dif- ferent from co-ed. “| don't have the extent of privacy | have at home,’’ Gwynn said, ‘‘but | have enough so that it doesn’t bother me.” Gwynn loves to talk on the phone while out in the hall because of ‘‘the 20 or 30 people always in my room.” Purdue University lost George Davis, with goofy grin and perennial gray gym shorts, after only one year. George, a sophomore from Logansport, was placed in Hurlbut Hall as a transfer. “It's a really good way to meet some folks,” commented George. The sparkle in his eye will tell you that these ‘‘folks’’ are mostly residents of the fifth and seventh floors; the sharp observer will note they are female floors. As treasurer of Hurlbut, George holds precious among his memories the time director Ruthann Kurinsky stopped by to pick up a resume and caught him with a beer. He now holds six months to life. Mary Ann House is satisfied with the Dining Service. ‘‘There’s hardly ever a | can't find something | like.’’ Along with her roommate, this sophomore from Lafayette decorated her Knotts Hall room with orange crates, quilts, plants and posters, and built a “‘nifty little wall” with the stereo. Mary Ann enjoys dorm living and believes things to be even more effi- cient for her here than at home. ‘‘I’m real- ly not inconvenienced here.” “It makes me furious to see the destructive things other people in the hall have done in the name of fun,’’ Dave Wakeman, Burkhart freshman, stated in- dignantly. ‘| won’t regret the fun | had here, in later life.’’ That fun included play- ing Risk and Swat and making complete spaghetti dinners in a popcorn popper. | asked Dave if Wagonner really is a ZOO te “Since | moved to third floor from first, my attitudes have changed,” Dave said. Swinford resident George Flexmanmakes his room a little homier by setting up his fish tanks. Students didn’t settle for average dorm rooms—they spiced the rooms up with orange crates, plants, carpeting, homemade curtains, shelving, and furniture from home. “The guys up here are much more con- siderate and mature, and can take on the responsibility of living in close quarters with other people.”’ Senior Mindy Shaw believes living on campus is cheaper and much more con- venient than living off. ‘| enjoy meeting all kinds of people, and Baker Hall is close to the library and the rest of campus.” Mindy brought all kinds of knic-knacs from her home in Elkhart to make the room homey. “Mindy,” 1 said, ‘““what do you think about as you look back over four years in a dorm?” She thought for awhile. ‘‘Other than the fact that I've made many lifelong friends in the dorm, | remember an end of the year banquet my junior year in Schmidt Hall. We wore the remnants of our closets and drank pink champagne alias spiked lemonade in champagne glasses alias plastic cups.” Something is definitely missing in the flick, ‘‘Gidget Goes to College.’’ Is it the bowling or basketball tourney my upstairs neighbors have nightly? (| wondered why they were so offended when | called to say the Pacers practice at Market Square Arena). Is it the Ginger Rogers next door who practices modern jazz dancing relentlessly to ‘’Tijuana Taxi’’ during finals week? Is it the profound sign ‘Thelma Miller has been arrested for prostitution — help us raise her bail?”’ more... Halls

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Sophomore Jim Walters (far left) leads the Botsford-Swinford residents in one of the earlier Spring Sing rehearsals. The group performed a medley of Paul McCartney songs, practicing late into the night because of a new open-lounge policy. Woody-Shales residents pass the time after classes with a volleyball game. Located in the grassy area outside the hall, the volleyball set-up was utilized as a source of entertainment by many residents. Halls