Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Oak Yearbook / INSTANO Yearbook (Indiana, PA)

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Sunrises: Sunrises are college time keep- ers. Monday through Friday, they warn you that it is almost time to get up for that 8 o ' clock class. Saturday and Sun- day, they tell you it ' s time to go home from that party and go to sleep. Conversation: It ' s the kind of conversa- tion that takes place between friends after the long summer. It seems that peo- ple who never talk to you the whole se- mester, suddenly have so much to talk about at the beginning of classes. Every conversation sounds exactly the same: How was your break? Oh real good, how was yours? Leaves Falling: Autumn is a beautiful time of the year at lUP. The air is nippy, making it sweater-weather season.

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Beginnings • • • Early morning light peeks over an empty campus a few days before fall semester classes begin. Carloads of nervous freshmen will soon be arriving, followed by sophomores, juniors and seniors anxious to return to lUP. The beginning of any semester always holds a feeling of the unexpected. What will I do, how will I change? is a question we find ourselves asking at some point. And we all arrive here with different ideas and atti- tudes about what college life will bring. The car trip up to lUP allows us to reminisce why we chose this univer- sity. For some, lUP was chosen for its reputation as a good party school. Others carefully picked lUP for its excellence in their particular major. Some decided to come to lUP because it is close to home, others because it is far from home. The beginning of the semester gives us the feeling of a second chance — the opportunity to be a better stu- dent, a better roommate, a better person. And the excitement and newness of it all makes us look forward to what is to come. Not only is it just the beginning of the year, it is the starting of classes, of relationships, of academics, of self- sufficiency and new and different campus events and issues. At this time, we set new goals for ourselves, looking toward the future and learning from our past. They are all challenges we dare ourselves to take.

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Of Being A Fresh One hundred level books and assorted colors of lUP spiral notebooks line the shelves above his desk in his dorm room. A photograph of his family rests on the second shelf, serving as a vague reminder to freshman Jay Maddox of the stable, orderly life that exists at home. Another photo of his high school sweetheart now hides behind several boxes of crackers and a large jar of Skippy creamy peanut butter. She has been long for- gotten since Jay ' s arrival at lUP and his sudden aware- ness of the 2:1 women to men ratio on campus. College life is great! exclaimed the skinny, 6 ' 5 freshman from Lancaster, PA. I was apprehensive about what college life would be like before I arrived, he said as he stretched his too tall body on one of those dorm cots, dangling his feet over the edge. ( This is certainly not like my bed at home, Jay com- plained.) I didn ' t know what to expect, he explained, offering me some of his mom ' s homemade chocolate chip cookies that arrive every few weeks. Animal House (the movie) was pretty explicit, Jay said, and I must admit that it served as a basis of what I pictured college life to be like. But it wasn ' t quite that bad as viewed in the movie. Even with all the pranks we pull in the dorms or on campus, we have never been punished by expulsion or put on ' double secret probation ' (as in the movie). That ' s what I like most about college — my freedom — to do whatever I want, when I want, no matter what it is, Jay said. Jay obviously takes advantage of this so called free- dom. His bed sheets remain in a constant state of dishe- velment. They are only smoothed out on laundry day when they are replaced with clean sheets or when his parents come to visit.