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

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round in battle for education all photos by Mlke Harding Cashiers' lines feel the crunch as more than 10,200 undergraduates pass rhrough these srarions and pay their in-srare fee of $37.50 per semester hour With a sigh of relief, sophomores Byron Fulrz of Cayuga and Donald Duvoll of ferre Howe fill our their business office cards. Registration 15

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Registration is only preliminar Many students song the closed-closs blues os registration time rolled around each semester. After cooly strolling down to the Hulmon Civic Center armed with 0 Form One, 0 permit to register and 0 business office cord, one usually ended Up in o stote of heated frustrotion after being herded through the various registration lines. Eoch semester the blues hit hard. Since registrotion times were orronged by class rank, the further down the totem pole one was, the harder he was hit by closed closses. Although enrollment was down 2.2 percent from lost year, one could not tell while fighting the long lines. For 0 freshmon, registration tended to be especially discouraging 05 he anxiously waited in line only to find there were no openings in the classes he had wanted. He was then forced to take them or another time, with early morning and night classes usually being the only ones available. Sometimes he even found himself taking on entirely different course. After that, he then was easily confused by what area to go to next. The sophomore, aided by experience, was usuolly 0 little more prepared for this ordeol, although he hod his patience and fortitude tested SPEEL'II ,, ,, 41?? V I JW l fry ll . lOl y, w CLOSEb !. Discouraglng signs such as thls one dot the main floor of the Hulmon Civic Center causing much confusion and frustration for the unfortunate student. Final checks are crucial to insure that the correct course number is copledl Wheaton, IL sophomore Don Cipriano finds the floor a convenient place to do this Registration 14 by the closed classes and long lines. The junior had on easier time of it and when faced with 0 closed class, he was consoled by the knowledge that, 05 o senior, and he soon would be, he had first dibs on all the closses. But, 05 the senior discovered, he had his own problems. All the dreaded classes that he had postponed taking had to be crammed into his schedule to meet groduotion requirements. After bottling the crowds .during registrotion, one foced onother struggle ot the bookstores. Feverishly searching through the stocks of books that occupied almost every ovoiloble inch of floor space didn't keep one's mind off the long lines he soon joined ' to pay sky-rocketing book fees. It was l olmost enough to make the most 9 unemotionol person cry. 1 After one song the closed-closs l blues or registration and endured the l bookstore torture, he had 0 couple of days to regain his sanity and psych himself Up for the start of classes. Registration was only the preliminary . round in the bottle for on education. He was now committed to o 'I semester of note-toking, reoding, exams, and poper-writing.l

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Quad 1b Quad is land for all season When the fost-paced hustle and bustle of campus life reoched intolerable heights, many students sought refuge in the grassy splendor of the Quad. Placed in the middle of our concrete jungle, this small area of gross and trees provided 0 place of escape for many 05 they retreated to the simplicity of nature. Some found this quiet spot 0 terrific place to study and get 0 breath of fresh air at the some time. Small groups of people Iozily talking under the shade of trees was not an uncommon sight either. Afternoon picnics and midmorning courtships under clear blue skies dotted the Quad when the weather was nice. Many other students found this an opportune spot to engage in their favorite sports. Frisbees often soored Photo by Glenn Lelvzell through the air as they caught the breeze. Action-pocked football and soccer games were organized as students discovered 0 healthy outlet for their tensions. Whether playfully tousling in the gross or turning flips, the Quad was seen 05 0 good spot for 0 little fun. Although the Quad sow most of its activity in the fall and the spring, in the winter this spot did not remain unused. Snowmon-building 0nd snowball fights were among this winter entertainment. Ployfully dunking someone's head in the snow on the way to class was some people's idea of fun. Whether students used the Quad for relaxing or frolicking, this spot provided a brief respite from the workpdoy world. I The ability to execute amazing leaps is not a prerequisite for a fosr-paced frisbee game; however, these students find this skill useful. With fall quickly creeping around the corner, this student finds the unseosonobly warm weather a perfect chance to refine his punrlng technique. Photo by Glenn Leltxell