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

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PICKING UP HIS clothes was only one of the problems encountered by Senlor Jeff King from Town- send, Tennessee. King Is ihe presidem of Cooper Hall Dorm. Tanya Green, Star! GETTING YOUR ID card made Is an experlence most Freshman and transfer sfudenls undergo soon after arriving at ETSU. Freshman Regina Harrell geis her ID made by Student Photographer, Tammy Wllllams. y John Flanlgan, Staff 13 ORIENTATION

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12 Entering college is one of the turning points in a per- son's life. The following ar- ticles relate some of the first impressions of incom- ing freshmen Say Cheese, Please! Before freshman orienta- tion, I had heard that you did not have time to comb your hair or fix your makeup before your ID. picture was made. It was described as a come in, sit do wn, smile situ- ation. In my case It was quite that way. So I went in, sat down, and smiled. I was extremely nervous. After the picture was taken, I took my place In line with the other fresh- man students. After waiting approximately ten minutes, the pho tographer asked me to come back and have my picture made again. He ex- plained that the camera had not worked correctly. This time I was more re- laxed, but a little embar- rassed because all of the student photographers were laughing and saying that he had done it on pur- pose. Ten minutes later, I was asked to sit for my pic- ture once again. By now I was totally relaxed and blood red in the face. Need- less to say, this made a real natural picture. If it is possi- ble to break the camera by merely looking at it, then I must have made a record by doing It twice In one day. I must add that after all I went through I wasn't very pleased with my final pic- ture. I really cannot com- plain because It was no onels fault but my own; after all, I did have three chances. Nyana Stevenson ORIENTATION ORIENTATION CAMPUS LIFE Campus life is very differ- ent from living at home and going to high school. When I first arrived on campus, my heart started bea ting fas ter, and I realized for the first time that I missed feeling the security of home. Isoon real- Ized that I had taken for granted my parents always being there when I needed them. I also felt that I had pushed away to start a new life for myself and to come across new experiences, whe ther good or bad. In this respect, living on campus has given me my first taste of adulthood. In high school I knew al- most everyone, but it usually takes a couple of months to meet people in college be- cause of the large number of students. It also took me a couple of weeks to become adjusted to the big change in life style. But after that things started to become very routine. I like the class schedule better than in high school, because Iget out of classes earlier, and I have time for more activities in the afternoon. It took a while to get used to the independence of col- lege life, but I know now that my decisions and ex- periences are very impor- tant and that I like the new sense of freedom. lalso feel that college makes a per- son more mature and defi- nitely helps one to prepare for the future. Becca Carter SETTLING DO WN The first week on campus was the most terrifying time In my life. Starting school sure seemed fast to me. Summer was over, and here I was alone in my room. Panic had struck me be- cause Iknew I was here and didn 't know anyone. I was all alone in this strange place. I didn't know where the buildings were or my classes, so I went and looked for them. I felt so different being on my own and finding things for myself. Mo ving in to the dorm took me almost three hours. I tried to make the room look like my room at home. Get- ting used to the room and being there with another person seemed impossible. There were so man y things to do at the same time, I really thought I couldn't make It. Everybody had told me how hard It was in college, I was totally scared to death to start. I went to my classes and everything worked out fine. I found out It really wasn't so bad after all. The first week was hectic but Imade it. And now ev- erything is running smoothly. I will always remember the first week though because it was the first step to a new life. Paula Evans AS CARTER HALL reopened after massive renovations, these girls were only a few of the many who moved In to ETSU's oldest dorma- tory.

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14 By Carl Forester Staff Writer Wait a minute! It's time to sit down and look where our money is going. Tuition for 9,472 students, as we are all painfully aware, went up some 2335 for in-state students, and more for out-of-state stu- dents. The registration fee for Tennessee residents for 1980 for 42 semester hours or more was $246 com- pared to $357 this fall. Out- of-state tuition in 1980 was 3747 compared to $765 this fall. Added to the tuition of $765 was a registration fee of 5357, bringing the total for ouf-of-state students to $4,422. Housing in one of over 44 residence halls cost from $250 to $337 as we returned this fall. We also paid $3909semester for rent in our two apartment-style dorms. Married student housing and the new gra- duate student apartments in the basement of Carter Hall ranged between $120 to $445 per month. Added to the rent for all these types of housing was a tele- phone charge of $35 per se- mester, where phones were available Then there is Off-campus housing, either in rooming houses or apartments. Rooming houses ranged from $30 to 850 per month, while apartments ranged from $75 to $300 per month, depending on size and lush- ness. Meals still seem to be a bargain in our university cafeterias and restaurants. For the 2i-meals-per-week tseven breakfasts, lunches and dinners, or 297 meals per semester; we paid PAYING BILLS WHERE DID All. 34 l2.4 4 per semester. That's an average cost of $4.39 per meal Remember, if we are eating in the boarding cafetria that's all-you-can- eat. For the lS-meal plan Uive breakfasts, lunches, and dinners; we paid $387.73 for 214 meals per semester. That is $1.839meal on the aver. age. On the lO-meal plan, we received any 10 meals during se ven days for a se- mester cost of 8355. 99 M42 Tuition UP 23 percent As EVERYONE KNOWS bills must be paid by September 7 or late fees wlll be Imposed. Remember the Ilnes In the Buslness Oftlce on the seventh. INCREASING INFLATION CAUSED a rise In many areas of student life, but ARA Food Sorvlce still seemed to offer good Iood at ialr cost. meals per semesters. That's an average-cost per meal of $2.54. For those students who chose not to purchase a meal plan, the cost was 3 i. 70 for breakfas t, $2.40 for lunch and dinner, and $3. 50 for special meals in the boarding line. Other campus facilities charge more for specialty item menus. By buying a meal ticket, we should be able to save the equivalent of $23 4.00Aemester, or as our ARA food service says, the equivalent of: o 75 six packs of your fa- vorite recreational be v- erage . 70.5 pink lzod shirts, in- cluding o$ sales tax 0 Books and supplies for one year 0 or an extravaganza ex- cursion to Lizard Lick, Tn. Buying books is always an easy way to spend large amounts of money. The buyeback policy is still in force at a little more than one half the value for those books which will be used next time: that is, if there isn't already a surplus of them on hand. We also paid $3 per se- mester for a post office box so we could receive letters from home, overdrawn no- tices from the bank, and junk mail. We also paid a 82 picture fee to have our pictures put in the yearbook. Speaking of the student publications, we received 30 copies of the East Tennessean news- paper per semester and a copy of the BUCCANEER yearbook, both of which are included in maintenance fees.