Idaho State University - Wickiup Yearbook (Pocatello, ID)

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.- A- N' I , I. -y,,3.,-, For some students the da st t l y ar s ear y when theysgo to church BY NORMAN GUNNING What does the typical ISU student do on Sunday? This is a difficult question. What is a typical ISU student? After a little observation and three semes- ters experience as an ISU student living on campus, I believe I can illuminate the subject just a bit. Sunday morning dawns and the ISU stu- A Sunday at ISU dent is usually to be found asleep in his or her own little cubicle. So far as I know no one has been brave enough to arise at 8 and go to breakfast on a Sunday morning. I have heard rumors, however, that some people actually do such a thing. This is a point I am not pre- pared to research at this time After the breakfast hour quite f t , a ew s u- dents start getting ready for churchg a large

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Miss CLARA OTNESS, Retired Dean of Women Br NITA Jo NISHIOKA Dean Clara Otness said that Idaho State University has been her love and interest and that her decision to leave was a hard one to make. She retired after first semester. Miss Otness came to Idaho State in August, 1955, after 23 years as dean of girls at Boise High School and two years as head resident of Wilmer Hall at Washington State University. Before assuming the Boise post, she was dean of girls and a history teacher at Blackfoot High School and head of a tWo-year high school in Springfield. She holds a bachelor of science degree in education from the University of Idaho with additional Work at the University of Idaho and Washington State University. Miss Otness Was instrumental in organizing Turner Hall as one of the few campus Panhellenic Houses in the nation, and in developing the dormitory program in Graveley Hall. Dean Otness has also started a loan fund for junior and senior Women. In referring to the loan fund she said, I am interested in promoting a loan fund for students and hope this Will be just a beginning. One of her co-Workers said, She dedicated most of her life to students and to the schools. She Was involved and Wrapped up in everything and everyone.

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number of them do succeed in actually attend- ing church on Sunday morning. Pocatello has many churches and ISU students and faculty are active in almost every denomination in the cit . As for the remaining group that doesn't make it to church, in most cases their day doesn't begin until 11 or 12 o'clock. They get up just in time to get dressed in their Sunday best for dinner from Saga Food Service. Meanwhile the students who attended church services are making their way back to the campus and everyone converges on the Owen-Redfield Dining hall at 12 230. After a delicious meal Qcontrary to rumors, Saga meals are just as good as the ones mother used to makej students return to the dormi- tories. Some await the opening of the Library at 2:00. They may spend the rest of the after- noon and evening studying. Other students await the opening of the Physical Science Film Theater, also at 2. Many fine movies are shown there and admis- sion is free to all students. Still a third group of students spends at least 15 to 20 minutes thinking of good excuses why they shouldn't do any studying until Monday. Nine times out of ten they do think of an excuse. Depending on the time of H ..p. we-V year and the weather, there A are many things to do on a Sunday afternoon if you don't plan to study. Hunting in the fall, skiing in the winter, swimming, having a picnic in Ross Park or in the hills that surround Pocatello, playing - tennis on the ISU courts or ' just relaxing on the quad are only some of the things stu- dents iind to do. Many male students play touch football in the autumn and baseball in the spring on the intramural field west of the gymnasium. Golf is popu- lar with some students. At 5 p.m. students again gather at the Owen-Redfield dining hall for supper. They dress more informally than at dinner. After supper it is back to studies for some, maybe tele- vision or justrelaxing in the pad. .X Many students participate in evening church services and others return to the Library. In Graveley and Turner Halls the girls start their gossip sessions and retell the high- lights of their weekend dates while putting up each other's hair and attending to other duties intended to make them attractive to the opposite sex. In the men's dorms many bull sessions start and two or three will last until the wee morn- ing hours. After the doors of the women's dorms are locked at 11 p.m. a quiet settles over the campus. The library closed at 10, the Student Union is closed and the parking lots at the men's dorms begin to fill up. By midnight only a few hardy souls are still awake. Most of ISU's students have gone to dreamland or nightmareland, depending on what is their schedule for Monday. Another weekend has come and gone at ISU and in a few hours the sun will rise again to herald a brightnew week for the 4,000 indi- viduals in theistrange -community on iifth avenue. . Xx 'I'i I 'Tl Around the Student Union television is always a good place to see the boys and catch the Sunday afternoon game.