Ball State University - Orient Yearbook (Muncie, IN)

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ee movie slogan as many students found themselves assigned to temporary housing in dorm study lounges or standing in long lines to reschedule because of cancelled classes or to purchase the year's first books. Red Skelton proved to be a welcome visitor whose comedy offset the turmoil occurring in the administration over the Hayes Study and the beginning of the end for President Pruis. ALIEN lifestyles and ordinary Student Life everyday living became more diverse as graduates, gays, blacks and married students chose alternates to the Muncie tradition of “typicality.” SNOW ENCOUNTERS brought the university to a temporary standstill when coal supplies, effected by a miners’ strike, dwindled in the midst of a record- breaking blizzard, forcing an extended spring break. Spring brought fresh beginnings and controversial endings while Books and studies forgotten, complex cheerblocks “let loose” as the Cards score another touchdown in the Homecoming game against Illinois State. the campus cut loose in an effort to forget a long winter. Questions without answers flooded the university following the resignation of President Pruis, a rules violation in Bike-A-Thon, and the extension of classes through exam week. IT ENDED IN ONE | INESCAPABLE CONCLUSION: WE ARE NOT ALONE. —

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o more chants echoed from dorm to dorm. No more swarms of pedestrians lingered at the scramble light. Parking spaces for commuters became easy to find. Book-toting students wore shorts, sandles, halter tops, and tans, and occasional sprinters to the university pool were daily sights. Sweating out three hours of class a day, flipping a frisbee between the trees of the arts terrace, or punching in a time card seemed to fill up the excess amount of time under a warm, summer sun. The suitcase syndrome developed into a massive weekend exodus, leaving a mere four or five cars dotting the Johnson Complex parking lot and a few