Guilford College - Quaker Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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Projected onto a sheet dropped from the second floor of Hege-Cox, The Rocky Horror Picture Show comes aUve larger than life early in the s Doing the Time Warp, students dance to the sights and sounds of Rocky Horror as characters on the screen above dance, shake, and slide. Two consecutive evening performances created plenty of fun. One of the promises of the Student Union this year was to provide some social activity on campus every week- end. It seems the Union held its prom- ise by providing over a dozen feature films, at least four DJ dances, and more than 1 2 dozen top bands, not counting Coffeehouses, some of which appear on these pages. Campus night life allowed students to break away from the daily blahs of classes during the week, and stroll often down to Sternberger Audi- torium to shake loose and have some fun. Besides some of the bands pictured here, students were also able to perfect their dancing ability to DJ dances such as the Halloween dance complete with man-made cobwebs held in the old gym. With Steve Montgomery playing hits with rapid succesion, students pa- raded through the hot gym clad in the most unusual fashions; yet always in either sneakers or socks to protect the floor from scuff marks. Attending were space creatures, punk rockers, soliders, nuns, pumpkin heads . . . literally. Some Of The Weekend Fun During This Fall Semester Included Movies, Music And Much More Dressed for the occasion, a visiting sluden on the dance floor by her partner Pascal Pelisf event was an IRC sponsored DJ dance held : berger the night before the X-Teens

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How many times has someone or Munich, who needs to wait for asked Well what did you do at Serendipity to have fun? Let ' s college this fall? Probably too have fun now ... at Homecom- many times. And what was the ing, a halloween costume dance, response? I studied, studied, the Christmas Formal, City and when I had a break ... I Stage, or a game of cards down studied. Well that is probably the hall in room 12. not completely accurate. There 1985 was no different from any were many other activities which other school year in that each occurred at Guilford in the fall student had to face the question semester. College life is not all of what am I going to do this academics; though this may not weekend? And every student did be what we tell our parents. So- something. Some students went cial life is an important part of home. However for the vast ma- the college experience. Just ask jority which remained, there was any student. something keeping them here. There is a difference between There was something happening, college life and college academ- There was something making ics, and many of these differ- the difference. ences arose through the depths . of homework, labs, research pa- pers, and tests to offer an avenue of escape for the student. Wheth- er for an hour of an evening, whether on campus or off, whether in Greensboro, London, MAKING THE DIFFERENCE

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Welcoming students back to school in August. Van- guard, a Winston-Salem based band, took the stage and provided plenty of heavy rock for students to dance to. Having played at previous Guilford Serendipities. the hand and audience knew each other well enough to en- able a well received presentation of material including Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath renditions. Vanguard was more than able to kick off the fall semester in the right direction. On the same night that Prince was | town. The Maxx was able to draw a lar berger for their show which included a of Prince ' s own song Delirious. ' ing£ clowns, and flashers. Though students found themselves often heading outside for a quick blast of cool night air, the dance was easily a success. Near the end of the semester, stu- dents were also able to enjoy the Bin- ford sponsored Christmas Formal at the Hilton. A large student turnout combined with more of Steve Montgo- mery ' s music created another fantastic time. Not to be easily forgotten at both this and the Halloween dance was when the theme from Hawaii Five-0 and Surfin ' USA were played, male stu- dents threw their bodies on the floor so that other students could stand surf on the backs of those on the floor. Upon witnessing this, one hotel employee shook his head with utter amazement. Is this what college kids do for fun? And let ' s not forget midnight bowl- ing! For the cost of renting shoes, stu- dents quickly discovered their ability, or inability, to strike pins with a ball that the finger holes were too small in, all at the odd hour of 2:45 am. Whether it was a movie, a dance, out- door day, a concert, or just a game of Trivial Pursuit, students did their best to break free from the monotony of study, study, study. Who said there ' s no social life at Guilford? The Good Guys from Virginia came to Guilford October and delivered a strong sound mixed with i influence of both reggae and rock. The X-Teens came to Stei variety of danceable music night ' s worth of enjoyment. One of the most unusual and popular ad sented in November by The Maxx. Their sho a crisp selection of hit songs intermixed wi light show, matching blue satin pants, nearb choreography, terrible jokes, and even a ju Needless to say, they put on a hot show.