Kent State University - Chestnut Burr Yearbook (Kent, OH)

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PX. Q-'-I copy, I need art! screams a Stater editor. Next door, editors, writers and photographers work under harsh flourescent lights and the constant night of darkrooms to fit together a year's experiences for the Chestnut Burr. Across the dark Commons yellow angles slice the sky. Inside, budding artists work at their masterpieces. Clay-covered hands slap and pinch at sculptures or pull stoneware from the potter's wheel. Art projects grow from days and nights hunched over easels and layout tables. Music majors spend days and nights practicing instruments and voice charts. Theater majors pace the hallways of Music and Speech with hair slicked back and faces lost under greasepaint. On another floor, telecommunications students labor to broadcast news and music over the air. When the clock radio blares on weekday mornings the university bustles to life. The quarter is short and the year passes by fast. There is seldom the right kind of food, never enough time for sleep, and always too much studying to be done. But interspersed with chaotic times are times of solitary peace. Moments of frustration are laced with those of fun and laughter. And there are as many times to stomp through snow or lie in the sun as there are to run from the monsoon rains. Hen byLaur1P Ma Photography Opposit p g Th W Th p g Th Warren, left. top righ I

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ll l A '-...Ln .,,, ,-, u i E- Jlfstd . W B k L ' X ', . s' f - - , , gig to if r t 114 , . X AP early in different corners of the community and head to their respective places. Lecture A Bowman fills up quickly with freshman faces for history and psychology classes. They scribble notes incessantly, hoping to understand them later. Other students stride confidently into the Business Administration Building with briefcases, slide rules and pocket calculators in hand. Confidence quickly evaporates as scribbled computations cover blackboards. In Satterfield frustrations arise from learning French accents after three years of Spanish. Even one's native language requires work in English ifi.. . -,-:tr ,' - , ',j -' ' classes. Biology, physics, and chemistry classes are time consuming and difficult. After an hour squinting down the throats of microscopes, jotting notes and diagrams, the brain is ready for a rest. Physical education classes offer a chance to work the muscles as well as the mind. Classes range from dance, to paddleball, to gymnastics. Many require constant practice to condition the body. Gym lights burn late into the night. Other buildings do not sleep, Fourth floor Taylor Hall is always bright, full of architects striving to finish one more project. Downstairs, journalism students battle deadlines. l need

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Setting The town and countryside Kent, Ohio sticky, sweating hot in the summer driving into town on one of the several highways, from Cleveland, Akron, Ravenna - the rain is bound to start pouring down as you pass the corporation limits. Kent, Ohio trees, the Holiday lnn, countryside, picturesque farmlands, highway - city - you're there. Largely populated and spotted with business for a town with seemingly little indsutry. Railroad cars whistle down the tracks along Water, Franklin Streets through Fred Fuller Park winding Cuyahoga riverside, past old Erie- Lackawanna Station, mills, behind old bar row, Brady Leap - did he really? - new highway, Crain Street bridge, out 43 country again, Towner junction and you've left Kent, Ohio. With its quaint tree lined old sections and increasingly swelling sub-suburban sprawl, Kent resembles any one of a number of small northeastern, southwestern Ohio, mid- western United States towns. Kent's major difference is that nearly two-thirds of its approximately 32,000 residents either live at or commute daily to the main source of livelihood, the 1200 acre Kent State University campus. Community store, Peaceable Bakeries, natural foods and pizza, boarding houses, bookstores, canoeing, shooting pictures on warm lli W