Creighton University - Bluejay Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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These students, top, enjoy a spring- like day and study, too. Other students utilize the learning resources, above, and the functional study space, right, that the Health Sciences library affords. 28 — student life

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O ' Donnell Center provides enriching Christian setting During the summer, the O ' Donnell Center pool offers recreation, above. Below, Arts sophomore Patty Moore tests her agility at juggling while tak- ing a break during a retreat. Creighton University acquired eight acres of wooded hillside in north Omaha in March of 1967. The acreage contains two ranch-style houses and an outdoor swimming pool. Acquisition of the property was made possible primarily through a gift from Lawrence O ' Donnell in honor of his mother, Mary, for whom the center was named. O ' Donnell was a 1927 graduate of Creighton. In making the gift, O ' Donnell had anticipated the facilities would be used for student retreats, but the use of the facilities has been diversified. Gradually, the idea of a University Center for enriching Creighton ' s Christian community and influencing Christian growth throughout Omaha took hold. The Mary J. O ' Donnell Center has been used for retreats by University and non-university groups, by Catholic and non-Catholic organiza- tions, conferences, short-courses and for social functions. The center is used frequently for Freshman Seminar group functions and floor or house parties for dorm students. Although Campus Ministry is nor- mally granted priority for use of the center, scheduling seems to be done on a first-come, first-served basis. Persons visiting the center, for re- treats or for social functions, can get away from the campus for a change of pace and change of atmosphere. The year 1976, was the first year the center ran in the black. The Rev. Jack Walsh, S.J., director of campus ministry, said. Two students are living at the center, maintaining the houses and the grounds. Sam Barton is in charge of maintenance.

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Typical Creighton students take caffeine for pressures The typical, oh-too-typical Creigh- ton student has a book-filled back- pack as a permanent extremity and runs not on octane, but on caffeine with occasional post-exam additions of beer. His hang-out is only a trek across the interstate at the Health Sciences Library or across California Street at the Alumni Library. The Health Sciences Library is the newest addition to the list of places to study and there, one can find the headquarters of the L.R.C. — not the learning resource center as the unini- tiated might believe, but the Library Rat Club. Members of this organization are I characterized by their belief that an expedition to the library is meant to be a trip with a time period similar to that in Around the World In Eighty ; Days. Another mnemonic device used by members of the L.R.C. is M.S.B. — Mid-Semester Breakdown. The Alumni Library, or aluminum library — one of the cheaper metals as disgruntled library rats call it when comparing it to the Health Sciences Library, is the hot spot on campus at all times. However overpopulated it may become. Alumni Library vet- erans insist that it is in reality a cold spot, and accordingly pile on layer after layer of clothing before settling down to study One never falls asleep over a book there, as a crew of library guards c onstantly makes rounds armed with electroshock devices as well as squeaky shoes to jolt stu- dents back into mental alertness. Those who frequent the libraries have not yet solved one mystery: just what do the electronic scanners at the exits see? Could this be the rea- son our mothers always told us to wear nice underclothing? If one at- tempts to leave the library early will a metal arm reach out of the all- knowing scanner and pull the way- ward student back? Is then, the typical Creighton stu- dent an anti-social bookworm who responds to the pressures of aca- demics by hiding behind a barri- cade of books? All students have varied study habits v hether it be before a formal dance, below, or leisurely in the dorm, above. student life — 29