Henderson State University - Star Yearbook (Arkadelphia, AR)

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Home Coming? Residents also have to put up with Homecoming activities... During this week freshmen girls are told a tale about an OBU girl who committed suicide because a freshman won the heart of her boyfriend. The place and how she kills herself varies from jumping off the bluff near OBU, to jumping out ofa Smith Hall window lwhich is highly improbable, since the story was to have taken place long before Smith was builtl. The girls are told the Black Lady, as she is called, comes and haunts the freshmen girls for revenge. One day during Homecoming week she comes and walks through the halls, and never fails to miss Smith, scaring hell out of girls who don't know better, or pretend not to. This year the Ladies were equipped with chains and a fantastic makeup job that would have made Boris Karloff proud! f 3

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This is HSU Residence Life Living in a residence hall is an experience all its own, lt's an education apart from the rest. lt's a way of life that has many advantages, but like other things, it has its disadvantages. Caddo Cafeteria, nicknamed the t'Caddo , is considered by some to be the biggest disadvantage. The only ratings it has scored highly on is the complaint list. Although the Caddo receives its daily criticisms, it also gets some respect. Several students plan their entire day around the Caddo. -g x . Z X I-lere's an example: DIANE: GAYLE DIANE: GAYLE DIANE: terrible GAYLE DIANE: Say, Gayle, let's go down to Wells. : No, I can't! I haven't been to the Caddo yet. You can skip it . .. : I can't afford to skip the Caddo! Have you been yet? Yeah ...I was there when it opened. They had the same 'ol stuff. : I know, but my stomach tells me to eat that terrible stuff!! Well, go on ...I'II wait on you... .about the dorms . This may sound unusual to those who do not frequent the Caddo daily, but to others it is a familiar tune. Another disadvantage of residence life is the lack of privacy. Many people complained that they cant stand to wake up in the morning to see a face that looks as bad as their own: others hate sharing bathrooms, while some others hate sharing anything . . . even a room. The thing that most students seem to like about living on campus is the closeness, Everything is within a close range, like people, classrooms. dorms, student union facilities, and the Caddo. Residence hall students go through many changes that differ from home life. For example . . . racing to the washers and dryers, waiting for showers, and lingering inthe halls, waiting for the ever-slow elevator. For dormies' without elevators . . . the hassles of moving in and out at semester are another story!! Life atSmith and Newberry can be pleasant attimes. . . nowthink back... weren't pop-ins okay lif you had a guest?l. But Turrentine and Goodloe residents had to do without the privacy of bringing a guest of the opposite sex to their room, w hich made for some pretty hectic private conversations in the lobbies. And the holiday parties and gift exchanging between floors made it seem a little more humane. 12!Flesidence Life I l I i x Smith Hall, the eight-story female dormitory, seemed to be the favorite because of the large number of freshman residents. Newberry,the Smithtwin for guys, was sometimes confused for Smith because of its long list of female visitors. Newberry was known for it's loud music, but since the dorm is more secluded acrossthe ravine, the complaints were few. Turrentine, the three story female dorm, was occupied mainly by sorority sisters who shared floors with the other Greek women. Goodloe, the male athletic dorm, was ranked second to Newberry. Not because it is any less popular, but because the dudes weren't allowed pop-ins . . . at least not legally . .. Oaks and Pines female residence halls held the most privacy. Not more than four girls shared a whole bathroom,andthegirIsin the dorms considered this a big advantage. Holly and Foster were closed second semester for renovation. lsee pages 36-397.

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AD Y THE LIFE... Just what does the average Henderson State University student do with his time when he is not in class? From the time the 'ol alarm clock rings until it is wound up again for another night's sleep, his hours are spent in a variety of leisure and working activities. But these activities differ from day to day, and male-female. Herein is a day in retrospect . . . A DAY IN THE LIFE... In the muffled webs of her mind somewhere around a million light years away an irritating ringing keeps sounding through her room. A slowly moving hand with unsteady fingers reaches for the button and releases the insistant bell from its duty. 6:45 - another day has begun in the life of Kathy College at Henderson State University. Chances are Kathy College is from a small town in Arkansas, with a small high school graduating class. She has probably spent most of her life within Arkansas. She likes pizza and Coke, loves to date ialthough she noticed the boys at college are not the dating typej, and drives either the family car or the small economy vehicle given to her for high school graduation. Jeans are her mainstay, although an occasional doubleknit slack and blouse outfit or jumpsuit deck her closet. Today she chooses the doubleknit. With haste the sheets and matching spread are tossed away, and at 6:47, Kathy grabs her shower bucket of supplies, towel, and slippers, and makes her way for the shower jwhich she never did get used to sharing with half the floor of the dorm.j 6:49 - Kathy College finds every shower in use and sits on the wooden bench and waits her turn. 7:00 - with towel around her wet hair, Kathy College sombers back to her room, where her roommate with the ten o'clock class lazily tosses at the sound of the door squeak. The electric rollers are plugged in, and she shifts the sheets and spread up around her pillows, giving the bed a hastily made look ibut, boy, would her mother die if she could see THATj. 7:05 -the blow dryer is pulled through her 14!A Day in the Life shoulder length Farrah Fawcett haircut. 7:10 -the hot rollers go in. Toothbrush, Noxema, contact lens, and Arrid are applied with the everyday ritual, and at 7:15 she sits before the lighted make-up mirror, ready to present the fine art of Flevlon, Maybelline, and Max Factor. 7:25 - a look in the closet and the lack of the doubleknit tells her it's laundry time. The jeans are retrieved from their usual place, and her good ol standby, her sorority jersey, is pulled over her head, loosening rollers along the way. 7:30 -the rollers are out, and in their place are the careless curls of Farrah Fawcett, neatly arranged and insured with Final Net. A quick splash of cologne and at 7:35 she grabs up the Biology, History, and Accounting books from their place on the shelves... a glance at her watch reminds her that the Caddo closes in 15 minutes. She must hurry to have her usual juice and toast. 7:40 - Kathy College sits across from a group of friends in the Caddo, her orange juice and doughnuts quickly consumed as she engages in gossip. Kathy, have you paid that huge sorority bill yet . . . Kathy do you have a date for Panhellenic yet? She passes off the questions with their respective answers, picks up her books, and quickens her pace as she hears the bell ring. 2:00 - Classes are over, and Lake Degray beckons the lazy to her sands. Kathy College piles in a car and spends three hours roasting. 5:15 - Only 45 minutes to change and get to the Caddo . . . Oh, forget dinner, she thinks, the Minute Man will do. After a quick Number 2 with cheese and a Coke, Kathy enters her room to get ready to goto AMY. You know Amy, that hole in the wall past Sparkman . . . it still holds charms for the brave and not so brave. At Amy, the girls watch the guys, and the guys drink beer and listen to Willie Nelson. Then the guys dance with the girls and a good time is had by all, etcetera ..... 12:15 - Kathy College drags herself back in her room tired, remembering the Biology test only ten hours away, which required about twelve hours of steady preparation. A quick glance over the notes will havetto do. The alarm is set, the lights are out, and the soft ticking of the clock fills the room and narrows out the day. n