Ball State University - Orient Yearbook (Muncie, IN)

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ll'lllllllllllllllllllllllll Q9 NTU 'J fi' 'lA'i' IT'S A i i ' M or MIND ' The Quad is deserted. The Administration Buildings doors are open, but its halls and offices aren 't jammed with lines of weary students waiting for loan checks, trying to register with unsigned class schedules or crowding the bulletin boards searching for the next quarters employment. he Arts Terrace is barren. Graduates who received diplomas there only three months before, amid the tears and cheers of thousands of parents, family and friends, WS may have long since nudged memories of ' Ball State to the backs of their minds. Residence halls stand empty. Gnly a few custodial personnel roam the corridors of Emens Auditorium. And University Gym only echoes the triumphs and defeats of just a small part of Car- dinal athletics. But in the air, something lingers. It rustles through every tree, around every building. lt's set- tling in once again. lt's taking its familiar place. And it will remain to carry each student through that first registration line to that final wait before graduation. It's a sense of purpose. lt's a deter- mination to succeed. lt's a Ball State of mind. The school year was bloom- ing, Deep, blue skies and sun- nurtured ftulips burst forth as N aniannual sign of the fresh, -' -new faces that would soon in- illorthv-Quadrangle. 5,5