Centenary College of Louisiana - Yoncopin Yearbook (Shreveport, LA)

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ALL CAMPUS WEEKEND All Campus Weekend comes at the beginning of each semester, and consists of three days of general hysteria on campus, the main pur- pose of which is to give students one last chance at the crazies before set- tling down into school work. It all begins with the Beer and Bicycle Race on Friday afternoon, but the highlight of the weekend is game time on Saturday, when Hardin Field looks like a junior high Fair Day com- plete with egg tossing and pie eating contests. The real fun starts with the tug-o-war, when everybody releases their frustrations by throwing each other in the mud. It ' s dangerous to even stand in the vicinity because someone ' s liable to get caught up in the fun and throw you in, too. B BEER AND BICYCLE RACE Each year hundreds of people gather on Fraternity Row to watch their fellow students get drunk, sick, and generally bruised and battered in the Beer and Bicycle Race. A team consists of four people who each chug a beer then ride to the end of the street and back. This may sound easy, but when there are fif- teen or twenty drunk people bicy- cling down a harrow little street that looks like it hasn ' t seen any repairs since World War II, things get pretty wild. Usually the only people crazy enough to participate are freshmen and beer fanatics. This year ' s first prize went to KA.

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BOOKSTORE Everybody knows prices are up, but that doesn ' t make a $90 book bill look much better, especially after cleaning out your checking account at registration. Are you kidding? Ten dollars for a paperback? All those books for one history course?!! And nobody really under- stands how the bookstore can buy used books from students for four dollars and sell them back for ten, or where all that extra money goes, but it ' s the only place you can buy your books. And, besides it sells all kinds of items useful to students, like belated birthday cards and candle molds. And you can cash checks there for only a dime. c CAF The college cafeteria is the central gathering place for campus resi- dents. It ' s where you go to catch the latest gossip, and where the guys check out all the freshman girls. After the first couple weeks of school, everybody seems to settle down at one table for the rest of the semester. The food varies from very bad to barely edible and anyone who survives it for four years has to have an iron stomach. It ' s the perfect place for wasting time on your way to the library, but you have to be really hungry to actually eat there. 11