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

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Janet Foster and Debbie Hacker display the comfortable look of jeans, polo shirts, and bermuda shorts. Barbara Biays models her cropped jeans and knitted sweater. 8 Fashion

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Students find outside ac¬ tivities Students come to college to learn. They spend the majority of their days in the classroom. If there is not time to finish class work in the 70-minute period they must spend time outside of class to get their assignments done. BCCC students spent many hours studying in the Library. Many research tools helped them write those English Composition papers. They also im¬ proved their skills working in the labs. After the Library closed many stu¬ dents put in extra time on their home¬ work in their dorm rooms or at home. On many nights, students who had free time went to the commons area. This was a good place to meet people for a friendly game of pool or to meet the challenge of pingpong. Students also gathered around the big screen TV to watch a good movie. Weekends were usually a time to relax. Relaxation to some students started with a shopping trip into Great Bend. Sometimes transportation to town was provided by Student Affairs. There were athletic events on weekends such as basketball, baseball, tennis, cross country meets and volleyball. Several dances were held throughout the year. If there were no activities that a student wanted to attend on campus, many times he or she would meet friends at local night spots. Division Page Student Life 7

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Mike Lane displays the fashion of dress pants and jacket. (Photo by Darren Demel) Casual look ‘in’ style Barton County Community College is basically a tee-shirt and jeans campus which sets a casual and comfortable atmosphere. The dress code is a thing of the past. Students are no longer re¬ quired to wear their Sunday best every day of the week. This has been in evidence on campus for a long time. The casual look helped students feel more at ease. Comfort was the word. Many students wore warm-ups to classes. This sometimes gave the impression that the alarm clock did not go off or worse yet their roommate turned it off or even worse yet, they had not done their laundry for a few weeks. Many simply felt more comfortable in sweats and this was not a reflection of their laundry habits. The casual feel of the campus encouraged students to feel com¬ fortable and in turn they felt in style when they wore their athletic attire. The informal atmosphere however did not discourage students to dress up. When students did put on their finest, the women chose low heeled shoes with anklets, big bulky sweaters, and bright colored bows in their hair. For the men, dress slacks, big sweaters, leather jackets, button-down shirts with sweaters in brilliant colors were worn. Other than sweats, jeans were still a very popular item. In the early fall and spring, hawaiian shirts with big patterns and prints, bermuda shorts, and jumpsuits with the peddle-pusher look of the fifties were very popular with the students. No matter what the students wore, it was included in an unoffi¬ cial dress code of almost anything goes. Two concert-goers display the ever-popular Madonna” look.