Binghamton University - Colonist / Pegasus Yearbook (Vestal, NY)

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- - by b SRS BB el Once a year, on a quiet August morning, a dormant SUNY-B Campus is reawakened. Whether in overstuffed station wagons or rented U-Haul trucks. students found their way to SUNY- Binghamton. Every concevable parking spiace on campus, and then some. was filled with car being unloaded. With trunks, cartons. and milk crates stuffed with albums. students began filing into their respective dorms Frisbees flew while hamburgers and hot dogs sizzled on the gnll. And music filled the air as parties ran late into the night W ho could forget his first week here? Walking around campus desperately trving to find the bookstore Making late might trips 1o Denny's, thinking that was the norm. Hanging out in strange people's rooms talking about. among other things. where thes n T ERa - SUItCases, lost, went to high school and if they knew such and such a person. And continu- ally having to partuicipate in those n- sipid getting to know each other games. as if yvou were entering the se- cond grade. and not college Everybody seemed to go through the same thing during orientation. All new students shared the feelings of loneliness and insecurity that accom- panied being away from home for the first time. as well as the sense of freedom and maturity that that absence brought about The excitement mer camp was of SUNY-B's sum- shortlived though. Within a week's time classes would begin, and those late night trips to Denny's became day long outings at Glenn G, Bartle's o 7 ' - - R e C SR 5