Florida Southern College - Interlachen Yearbook (Lakeland, FL)

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I Styles Come and Styles Go Styles come and styles go. That is the way fashion works every year, and 1986 was no exception as the many trends in college dress and hairstyles found their way onto the campus. Banana clips, worn in the hair, were popular among women. Getting their name from being long and slightly curved, they opened up by a clasp at one end and fit snugly to the head to hold all of the hair together in a long ponytail style. Both men and women wore short, moussed-up hair- styles. Dippity-do hair gel, which had been around for a long time, enjoyed a comeback. Along with it came the intro- duction of many similar products such as styling mousses, lotions, and other gels, none of which came cheap. In the area of clothes, women wore a lot of blue denim mini skirts. Long or simply oversized sweatshirts and sweater dress- es were also the fashion. For shoes, the Most students, in spite of all the exciting styles, stuck with the clothing item that was as American as apple pie: blue jeans. style was a flat or low-heeled leather shoe that color coordinated with the outfit. The favorite shoe for both men and women, though, was Reebok ' s brand tennis shoes, which one usually wore with thick, rolled down socks. Many of the men left their tennis shoes untied. Another popular fashion for women were stirrup pants and, soon after, a simi- lar style without the stirrups. Blouses with slits and buttons running up the center of back as well as the front were also worn by the trendsetters. Most students, in spite of all the excit- ing styles, stuck with the clothing item that is as American as apple pie: blue jeans. They will always be at the forefront of FSC fashion, along with fraternity and sorority wear. — Charlene Barcenas Reeboks, boats, and flip-flops ... All of these shoes were popular with students at Florida South- ern Walking in the rain . . . Kelly Reimann, Laurie De- loach, Traci Tucker, and Lesley Austin show their styles as they head out for a night on the town. 1 8: styles

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Movies, Sports, Music, and World Events 1 986-87 had its share of movies, sports, music, and world events that affected our lives outside of the campus world of Flor- ida Southern College. This year ' s Top Gun starring Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis was the most popular movie grossing over $150 million. Rodney Dangerfield went Back to School with Sally Kellerman, Sigourney Weaver went back to fight Aliens , and Jeff Goldblum accidently turned himself into The Fly . Inconsistent with Disney ' s past films was the popular Ruthless Peo- ple starring Danny Devito and Bette Midler. George Lucas ' s Howard the Duck laid an egg FSC students also en- joyed Ferris Bueller ' s Day Off , Stand By Me , and Nothing in Common with Tom Hanks. Other movies of this year in- cluded Jumpin ' Jack Flash with Whoopi Goldberg, Crocodile Dundee , Children of a Lesser God , Star Trek IV: The Journey Home , and Legal Eagles with Robert Redford and Debra Winger. There were some rare sporting events in addition to the regular ones. In football, defending Superbowl champions Chica- go Bears played the Dallas Cowboys at Wembley stadium in London. Argentina won the World Cup in soccer. South Korea hosted the Asian Games, a ' dry run ' to the 1988 Olympics. Heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson was on the road to becoming the youngest undis- puted champion in history at the age of twenty. Bobby Rahal won his first Indiana- polis 500. Martina Navartilova and Ivan Lendi, both Czechoslovakians, emerged as the year ' s best in tennis. The Montreal Canadians brought the Stanley Cup back to Canada where hockey began. The New York Mets and the Boston Red Sox met in the World Series at the end of a fantastic year in baseball with the New York Mets winning four out of seven games. This year ' s music charts proved that Boston could make a comeback with a Steve Winwood ' s Back in the High Life was no. 1 on the album charts. new album Third Stage . Madonna ' s True Blue and Eurythmics ' Revenge scored high on the pop charts. Gordan Sting Sumner remixed the most popu- lar Police tunes creating new enthusiasm to old songs. Steve Winwood ' s Back in the High Life was number one on the album charts, while Genesis ' Invisible Touch was in the top ten. Other albums of this year included REM ' s Life ' s Rich Pageant , David Lee Roth ' s Eat ' Em and Smile , Van Halen ' s (or Van Hagar ) 5150, and Janet Jackson ' s Control . Other artists with albums this year were Peter Gabriel, Glass Tiger, Wham, Jour- ney, Billy Joel, Eddie Money, The Cure, and Emerson, Lake, and Powell. One of the top news stories was the Iceland Summit between President Ron- ald Reagan and USSR General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Controversy over Reagan ' s strategic defense initiative caused the summit to achieve nothing. Another event that brought new atten- tion to nuclear reactors was the Cherno- byl accident in Russia. This caused most of Northern Europe to drastically change their lifestyles. Other events of the year were the grow- ing number of farmers declaring bank- ruptcy because of poor economic condi- tions, bombings in Paris and Beirut be- coming daily occurrences, and Pat Roberson beginning his campaign for president. A cure for AIDS was still being sought. Justice Rehnquist became, after a legal investigation, the new Chief Jus- tice. — Daniel McGraw Mocs at World Se- ries . . . Sopho- mores Jean Corr and Jill Taylor watch as the NY Mets move closer to winning the World Series current events 7 « 4 i ... .