Fort Hays State University - Reveille Yearbook (Hays, KS)

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Tiger mania stalked the entire campus and Hays community as over 90.000 people jammed into Cross Memorial Coliseum throughout the basketball season. PEOPLE Pens, notebooks and occasional sleepy eyes accompany the D.J.’s, a renovation from supermarket to bar, nourishes with classroom lecture in McCartney Hall, rock and roll music and capacity crowds of 800 people. E nergy of the people seeped into all aspects of student life. Gross Memorial Coliseum overflowed with excitement as the Tigers were ranked Mo. 1 nationally by the Motional Asso- ciation of Intercollegiate Athletics, Most minor sports won District 10 champion- ships, and the athletic budget which had plunged into debt two years prior was projected by Athletic Director Bobby Thompson to feel promising results from record ticket sales. Crowds poured into a new bar on Seventh Street that boasted of being the largest in Kansas. It also caused an angry reponse from residents in the area who were disgusted with the takeover of parking area, litter and rowdy behavior in a previously quiet neighborhood. Mew wave music, preppy clothes and western style hats claimed the fancy of young people searching for identity in a society that in the 80s said ‘ ' be an Individual 1 One could not help but notice the ethnic original- ity of the Volga-German community, and the spirit of progress on the Central Kansas campus that was embraced by a year teeming with political, econom- ic and social changes. 1981 was not a lukewarm span of time in any sense of the word. 1981 was just plain HOT, Joining team action the spring semester. Levartus “Dino Larry shows the sell-out crowd Ms famous two-handed, over- head reverse dunk, Larry was the Tigers leading re bounder and received honorable mention in the Central States Intercol- legiate Conference. b Opening

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Proposals to raise the Kansas legal drinking age to 21 sparked concern from students and owners of popular night spots Construction of the media center, which originally was planned as remodeling of the Forsyth Library basement, began In the fall amid contradictions concerning sources of funding. I t was a year of heated issues as tuition rose $80 I per semester and the federal government cut I financial aid to lower-income students, Ronald Reagan ' s inauguration sparked national optimism on the day that 42 hostages were released from Iran, and dusters of people formed around televi- sion sets to watch the 40th president take oath and the American heroes return home. To remain detatched was impossible as “The Star Spangled Banner ' 1 rang From the throats of a sell-out crowd at the evenly-matched Denver Uni- versity-Fort Hays basketball game that evening. Patriotism, however, was tested as students and facu lty felt the oncoming crunch of slashed pro grams for education, and grew silent while listening to news reports concerning an attempt on the life of the chief executive, and of those who blocked the shots intended for him. It became unstylish to be uninformed when pro- posals dealing with the sale of bottled beer and drug paraphernalia were acted upon by the city commis- sion. Politically, the year crackled with hot issues. Opening S

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