East Tennessee State University - Buccaneer Yearbook (Johnson City, TN)

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CONTENTS Opening............... 2 Student Life......... 10 Sports...............100 Academics............172 Organizations........206 Greeks...............232 People...............276 Advertising..........364 Closing..............394 BUCCANEER 1979 Volume 67 East Tennessee State University Johnson City, Tennessee 37601

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The university had changed, and students knew it. Those of us returning felt the changes more deeply than incoming freshmen, but we were all aware of the pervading air of change. Physical differences were most obvious at first, but academic and administrative reorganization proved to be more drastic. Although many students were only slightly aware of the Reorganization,” faculty and administrative personnel were caught up in the mass of departmental and collegiate restructuring. Administrative positions, long considered standards of the university, gave way to newer forms. The offices of the Dean of Men and Dean of Women were transformed into the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs and the Counseling Center. The College of Medicine formally opened its doors to its first class of twenty-four students in August. Housing itself in the old student center and the second floor of Memorial Center, the College became the fourth and newest operating medical school in the state. The greatest academic change, however, involved the reshaping of the entire academic structure. One college was completely dissolved, its departments either forming smaller schools or being absorbed by other colleges. Other departments were moved from one college to another, merged into larger ones or split into smaller ones, and acquired new updated names. Through this giant step in the name of progress, we students, confused at first, gradually adjusted. We finally began to refer to our majors by their right names and slowly grew accustomed to the shuffled curricula. When the weather was good. Jim Bard and his hot dog cart were on hand to give students quick food between classes. 2 Opening