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

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tAll Photos by Matt Bowmani It's Fee Time and Everyone Wonders Can You Find Your Way Through the MAZE? by Chris Hutchins Paying fees can be as simple as writing a check and sealing an envelope for those students who pay on time and do not receive grants, loans, or scholarships. But for those of us who ignore the due date on the bill we are sent through the mail or if we are lucky enough to receive student aid, pay- ing fees means playing the Maze Game. First, you must find your star- ting position according to the first letter of your last name and whether you have received a P.E.L.L. grant, V.E.I.A. loan, or athletic scholarship. There are five or six different lanes to choose from, so be careful. If you pick the wrong one, you lose your turn and must start again. There are also several obstacles along your path to prevent you from completing your route through the Maze. Such things as the computer going down, your schedule being purged because you are paying your fees' one or two days late after your dog ate your bill, and last but not least, the dreaded lunch hour when all the cashiers and terminal operators leave even though you are next in line and have already waited for over an hour can drive you crazy. When the computer finally gives you the OK, you receive a small sticker on the back of your Step one of the MAZE GAME . . . Finding your fee card can be trying at even the best of times for the average student. sacred ID. card and a receipt which permits you to enter the second phase of the Maze where you should receive your parking sticker. This phase is easier because there is only one lane to Choose from. The infamous Lane Ten is easily recognized because of its length. Each student, whether they drive a Mercedes or a farm tractor, must have a parking sticker. If you overcome all the ob- stacles, you receive your parking sticker and the satisfaction of com- pleting the Maze Game. A student's first order of business is to attack the fee card file before writing that infamous check allowing her to go to class. Maze l 11

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tAll Photos by Todd Perryl Heave Ho . . . The job of moving in begins at home when you have to pack 12 boxes of stuff and a two by two and one half refrigerator into your car and still have a hole to see out the back window. With everything needed for a suc- cessful year at college it's time to hit the road. Upon arrival, you must Check in. This consists of getting a card which lists all the things that don't work in your room, like the electricity and the running water. After Checking in you make your way down to your car and begin toting that barge and lifting that bale. After numerous trips up three flights of stairs you decide that maybe you can do without your aquarium and eight foot snow skiis. When everything is moved in, you look around and wonder how everything that has taken you years to accumulate is going to fit in your 12'x12' home for by Chris Hutchins the next year. You claim your territory by making up your bed and plastering the walls with posters and pictures, hoping your roommate likes Slim Whit- man as much as you. Finally, after everything is situated, you feel kind of warm, that's probably because the air conditioning isn't working. Safe in the confines of your new dwelling, you forsee the events of the upcoming year. The only thing that seems to pose a pro- blem is how to get everything you just moved in plus all the gadgets you will collect all through the year packed back into the same small car when moving out time comes in the spring. A lone student sits by herself on the stairwell waiting for Mr. Clean. Heave Ho l 13