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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