Indiana State University - Sycamore Yearbook (Terre Haute, IN)

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Congratulations! You just turned 21 and you've decided to leave dorm life behind you and go out into the world searching for the Heaven- on-earth that apartment life offers. Think of it . . . no more one-room existance. No more RA, no more hall meetings, no more fire drills at 3 am in the middle of a blizzard. Best of all no more dorm food! Well, that's swell, but now it's time to find the abode of your dreams. You want something nice, carpeted and paneled if possible. You want it fur- nished and with all kitchen-type appliances. You want a phone already installed and cable TV hook-up already made. And, you only want to pay $100 a month, of course. After all, you moved out of the dorm to save money didn't you? Apartments aren't easy to find. Oh, there are plenty of them, but most have only one bedroom, or no tub, tor no shower depending on your pre- ferencel or no heat . . . which you sadly discover the first time the temperature drops. Itls difficult to find one big enough, with enough closet space and shelves to store every- thing. And after finding the right place at the right price, you discover it's twelve miles to campus and not on the bus route. the hassle of hunting APARTMENT HUNTING 17

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ANTHROPOLOGY excavation uncovers indian village dating back 2000 years 6199?? Il'lt 16 ANTHROPOLOGY Diggin' in the dirt? Salvaging the remains of a large prehistoric Indian village is more than that e as anthro- pology students at ISU discovered dur- ing the summer of 1974. For a second year, the National Park Service provided substantial sup- port for the archaeology program of the ISU Anthropology Laboratory e including an $8,000 grant earmarked for excavations at a former Indian village in Sullivan County. There was an urgency about the operation since a planned rebuilding of the Island Levee along the Wabash River threatened to destroy parts of the once thriving Indian village. Dr. Robert E. Pace of ISU's Anthro- pology Laboratory directed the sum- mer excavations. These took place during the first summer term, when college students could earn six semes- ter credit hours while learning field and laboratory methods of archaeo- logy. During the second summer session talented high school students partici- pating in the ISU Summer Honors Seminar in archaeology took part in the excavation. Assisting Pace were Jerry Kline, an ISU graduate who then attended Ari- zona State University. and Gary Apfel- stadt, a student in anthropology at ISU. Several other anthropology majors were employed in the excavation and in laboratory analyses of information recovered from the village. Through excavations that began in 1969 and have continued each sum- mer since, archaeologists have iden- tified the inhabitants of the village as the Allison-LaMotte Indians, who oc- cupied it at intervals from around the time of the birth of Christ to 600 AD. It is believed that the Indians would live at one of the village sites until plants and animals they used became scarce, when they would move to an- other viHage, eventually returning to the first site when plant and animal life had once again become abundant. Although different and powerful Indians are known to have lived to the immediate south and north, they failed to penetrate or appreciably influence the Allison-LaMotte Indians. Maintaining their particular way of life for some 600 years, these people mastered the Wabash environment and resisted pressures from aggressive cultures around them. Finding no evidence of fortification, archaeologists believe that the Allison- LaMotte Indians were a peaceful peo- ple and that their contacts with others were peaceful. For reasons not yet understood, they were influenced more in some ways by Indians from the Ohio River to the southeast than by adjacent mid- west Indians. The secrets of their cultural stability and contacts with the southeast was one of the objects of the summer's excavations. ltWhether participating as students or paid employees, the young men and women involved in the project twerel contributing to our knowledge or pre- history, said Pace describing the program. ltln a most practical manner, those who choose archaeology as a career will be preparing themselves for an increasing number of salvage jobs, as more of our prehistoric sites are threatened by levees, strip mines, reservoirs, and other land use develop- ments of our age, he added. he ldirti

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Rick Young has toast in the oven, eggs in the skillet and coffee on its way to the cup, proving that a good breakfast is easy for the seasoned chef. So here it is, your own apartment. You can't believe it. And it is great. You set your own hours and you fix food you like and you watch the TV shows you want to see and everything is great. For the first few weeks anyway. For many, getting away from the university is worth all the hassle and worries and headaches that come with renting your own apartment. For them, that little bit of freedom is more important than anything else. The reason usually cited for the move is money. Hlt's cheaper, and who wants to spend money just to live in a dorm? One coed was more concerned about her finances, ill only eat 18 APARTM ENTS one meal or so a week at the dorm, but I have to pay for them all because i live in a dorm without a meal plan. Besides, why should I eat that awful food when I could fix my own and like it a lot better? The truth is, that living in the dorm is expen- sive, but not nearly as much as most students say it is. The actual dorm rent is $80 a month with all utilities paid, plus maid and laundry ser- vice for rooms and sheets. There is a clothes laundry available and if you get hungry at 2:00 am, there are vending machines always open across the hall.