Jacksonville State University - Mimosa Yearbook (Jacksonville, AL)

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JSU Traffic As new Students enter JSU, they are faced with many new experiences, one of which is the traffic. New- comers will find traffic to be bumper-to-bumper and sidewalk-to sidewalk. It is common knowledge at JSU that driving a vehicle around campus is like taking one's life in his own hands. Until this person has learned the tricks of the trade, he especially has problems. He must be able to change lanes quickly, be- cause as a beginner, he usu- ally gets in a turn lane before he ultimately realizes his A New Experience mistake. As new students come to Gamecock Country, they must learn which backroads are the short cuts and which are the dead ends. They must also learn when they are better off taking the main streets, because even- tually they will make it to a red light and have a chance to turn. They might never get a break without a turn signal. Once a person has mas- tered the basic skills of Ve- hicular Motion 101 at JSU, the next step is the parking lot. To become a successful driver, one has to learn to zip in and around parking lots, as if a mouse in a maze that cannot find the exit. He also must learn the art of finding a parking place. He must be able to spot a vacant space and race to it before anyone else does. Students are often better off walking to class than driving. An experienced sophomore remagked, Too many freshmen and driving to class. In many colleges, freshmen are not allowed to drive on campus. If this was a rule at JSU, the problems of parking and traffic would ,Y 14 Vampu- Lil:-1 Traffic'

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'Q NGN' ur.- ! ,, Q T N -- ,,,', W , X - vi 011' Willa ll: i TJ PL- .tsvgdgs , A ,, . 'E gs., - - ,, - ,iw Q - ' -. , 'iv' ' , . ' 1 ...i - . i l The Ultimate Compromise--- One of the most impor- tant challenges in college life besides your studies, is your relationship with your roommate. He is the one who has to put up with you. In other words, he is stuck with you and you with him for at least one semester. The thing you want most is to get along with your room- mate really well, but that does not work out all the time. The roommate you get is not usually your type at all. There are great exam- ples of this, like an activity oriented football player It Takes Two to be Good Roommates sharing his room with a book-bound genius, or a fu- ture Baptist minister shar- ing his room with the biggest party animal on the whole campus. Often your roommate has some friends you cannot get along with when they come to visit him. When that hap- pens you do not want to be in your room so it can stimu- late you to do some extra studying in the library or to give the pub another visit. Another point is you may enjoy going to bed early and waking up early, but your roommate likes to go to bed late and get up late. When he makes a lot of noise and wakes you up when he is coming into the room at two o'clock in the morning, you will probably seek revenge and wake him up at seven o'clock in the morning. When that cycle begins you can forget about getting a good night's sleep for the rest of the semester. One of these skirmishes can end up in a war between you and your roommate in which you do everything to make his life difficult! 16 Campus Life: Roommates On the other hand, yo' roommate may also becon your best friend, a perse with whom you go to a pari and do your homewor Then it is great to have- roommate, but you nee some rules to keep that u such as rules on cleaning 1 your part of the room an whether or not you are a lowed to smoke. A roon mate relationship must 2 ways be give and take ' make it worth-while. roommate may very well come a friend for life! Ja Leyte