College of William and Mary - Colonial Echo Yearbook (Williamsburg, VA)

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The semester Is ushered In with winding lines outside the Campus Center for the SA bookfair. Regular bookstore prices must be mighty high. — Photo by Barry Long. An Ice cream social at Chandler in September sets the scene tor the drooling antics of Kevin Nary. Dave Rupert, Jan Howarth, and Laura Mooney look very amused, — Photo by Lydia Dambekalns Freshman frolicking includes some lively moments just fooling around in the room Participating in a little horseplay here are Don Kirby, Dan Zebrowski, Bill Shonk, Debbie Garrett, Jeff Grist. Greg Galloway, and Steve Bisese (RA) of Yates first center, — Photo by Rob Smith. Opening Weeks Freshmen 17

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The Big Debut But eventually the routine took its roots. The once-glazed gaze at the green machines rolling by had sharpened into an annoyed expression and wrist-watch checking for the bus that was ten minutes off schedule. I ' m going home was gra- dually naturally synonymous with head- ing for the dorm. I ' m going ' Swemming ' became a passe phrase for heading to- ward the library — where, sadly enough, the fresh graffiti on restroom walls was instantly ascertained. And that dilemma of a decision — Should I stay and study longer or have a clean pair of underwear to put on in the morning? — had been pondered more than once. Though a beautiful campus and hectic schedule were the standard assess- ments of the first few weeks, the attitudes after settling in were not so one-sided; It ' s not that different from high school — I went to private school — more work of the same type. Very different from high school. I went to a small private girls ' school. . . .it ' s not as wild as I imagined. ... the parties are a lot more wild than I had expected. I didn ' t expect this great social life — I had only hoped it would be like this. Socially disappointing due to academic pressure. The people are more down-to-earth than I thought they would be. Everyone puts on a show to impress everyone. And on and on and on — stereotyping the freshman was no easy task. Yet some broad degree of accord was struck on one aspect of the settled life. This was the year of the big debut of the coed freshman dorm — Yates and Dupont, the core of freshman housing. five comments like: It ' s so much nicer to really get to know someone doing laun- dry than in a hectic, noisy party where it ' s hard to be yourself, or, I feel like I ' m living with siblings. Yet perhaps be- cause they had known no other dorm life, coed living was really no big deal to freshmen. I came from a family of eight, so coed living all seemed very natural to me. I chose single-sex because I ' m sick of living with men — day in and day out — I have five brothers; I prefer them just at night. I thought if I picked single-sex that I could walk down the hall in a bathrobe and towel on my head, but there are more guys here than in a coed dorm. — J.B., K.S. ■ Yes, Mom, coed living ' s great No, Mom, of course we don ' t let them see us In our bathrobes! were no long single-sex, partly in hopes of offsetting some of the destructive dorm behavior. (Upperclassmen only wished the idea had been instituted a few years earlier.) The arrangement elicited posi- Kathy Wilcox assesses the inventory laid out at the fall SA bookfair Chet Knapp looks on from behind Photo by Bob Scott Heading out to the shopping center, a student waits across from the cafeteria for the arrival of the JBT bus, popularly referred to as the green machine — Photo by Rob Smith 16 Freshnnen — Opening Weeks

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Rolling down Duke of Gloucester Street, the Homecoming court smiles to the Saturday morning parade watchers Left to right queen Lynn Norenburg, princesses, senior Bevin Engman, junior Beth Comstock, sophomore Karen Pollok, and freshman Anne St Clair — Photo by John Berry Getting a little support on the side, Michelle Burchett and Betsy Cloud wait for their turn on the field dunng halftime — Photo by John Berry A perfectly sunny Saturday set the ideal atmosphere for alumni tailgate parties Looking closely, the tail of this car is particularly appropriate for such a scene — WAM 66 — Photo by John Berry 18 Homecoming