Barton Community College - Spoke Yearbook (Great Bend, KS)

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1. Two daring voyagers show off their keen sense of balance while navigating a Canadian lake. 2. )im Manning knows where his next meal is coming from as he casts his line into a northern lake. 3. Members of the canoe group take time to wallow in the clear, serene waters of the Canadian wilderness before returning to the plains of Kansas. 4. Mr. Paul Biays, sponsor for both canoe trips, converses with members of the group about the many interesting events of the expedi¬ tion. 5. Mark Emerson displays one of the few products of civilized man which helped him survive the 12-day ordeal. 6. Without the aid of a motor, lane Petrich, Mike Devore and Guy Ernstein find maneuvering a canoe to be exhausting but pleasurable. 19

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Paddlers Embark in Canoes, Wrestle With Mother Nature As compact and central¬ ized as it is, the campus extended all the way into the Canadian wild¬ erness last summer during two canoe trips into the Northlands. Fif¬ teen students and faculty from Bar¬ ton County Community Junior Col¬ lege were divided among the two excursions, one in July and the other in August, sponsored by Mr. Paul Biays, professor of English and philosophy. For 12 days, the voyagers navigated the waters of Canada, battling the elements and receiving first-hand experience of crude liv¬ ing. Whether they liked it or not, the vagabonds from central Kansas lived off of the land, consuming dehydrated trail food, using open- air toilets, and bathing in whatever water was convenient. Regardless of the hardships and absence of luxur¬ ies, though, the two groups viewed a part of North America they might otherwise never have seen, and learned to cooperate with others in rugged, natural surroundings. And, as if that were not enough, the stu¬ dents received two hours of credit in Camp Craft and Canoeing I. 18

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Enrollment Lines Lengthen; Student Numbers Decline For freshmen it was a totally new experience; for sopho¬ mores it was another boring repeti¬ tion, but for everyone it was enroll¬ ment time. Surrounded by a mass of computer cards, schedule sheets, and general information booklets, students met with their advisers, hunted down necessary signatures, waited in endless lines and bought their textbooks, all within a matter of hours. Adding to the frustration of enrollment, tuition increased from six to eight dollars per credit hour to compensate for the rising costs of higher education. Final enrollment figures showed that BCCJC had 116 fewer students than first semester last year, a trend that appeared in most junior colleges across the state. 1. Mr. Ken Shaheen looks over the schedule sheets in an effort to work out the best possi¬ ble class lineup for Mike Keating. 2. Hoping that the classes they want have not closed, Steve Murray and Harold Samson exchange their schedule sheets for stacks of computer enrollment cards. 3. The cost of higher edu¬ cation is felt by several students as they pay their fees at the conclusion of the enrollment line, with the bill for textbooks yet to come. 4. After an afternoon of roaming from station to station, Kirby Conley stops at the financial aids table as Mrs. Virginia Bird makes sure his scholarship check is in order.