Central Michigan University - Chippewa Yearbook (Mount Pleasant, MI)

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wild at cult-film favorite, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and mellowed out musically with Harry Chapin. The campus was not an island, however, it was a community within a community. Whether students lived in dorms, apartments or houses, they inevitably interacted with the residents of Mount Pleasant, as downtown shoppers or next- door-neighbors. lt was generally a comfortable relationship--except when the parties got too loud. But the long-time residents had had plenty of experience with living in a college t o w n . There was an almost overnight transition from summer to winter, as students tried to figure out what happened to fall. A mid-October snow sent many running for additional blankets. With Michigan Consolidated Gas prices up 50 percent, off-campus students often preferred to shiver a while longer than turn up the heat. Trying to reach friends by telephone became a traumatic experience until late October, when student directories were finally available. GTE information rarely had the new off,-campus numbers listed. That was discovered, of course, after every roommate's name had been tried. lt WHS frustration at its best. Religious groups took sunny days as an

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