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

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The best place to begin the big off-campus move is the top of the University Inn where, in the comfort of a tall cold daiquiri, you can survey the neighborhoods (opposite top). Your house, once you ' ve found it. presupposes a number of fringe benefits. Students Ted Wood and June Slease take a stroll down their very own street (opposite bottom), and on Summit, the KSU cheerleaders use a convenient yard for the construction of their Homecoming float (above). 21

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flatting Off You come to school at seventeen or eighteen — too young to really say where you ' re coming from. For a while, you go home every weekend. Your friends are there ... so is most of your identity. But after a year or so, your perspective begins to shift. The record club sends your selection of the month to Kent. The Portage County Red Cross gets the blood you so generously decide to give. You get your news from the Record-Courrier and your muzak from WKDD. And the City gets a cut of your part-time salary. For better or worse, where you ' re from is Kent. You go to the University. You hang out downtown (on the weeknights by your junior year). You date someone you never would ' ve met outside Kent. You memorize the bus schedule so you can get your food at Value-King and your Christmas presents at Stow-Kent. When you walk down the street, your friends stop traffic to yell at you from their cars . . . nobody did that where you used to live. So much of you is invested here that you can ' t remember living anywhere else. Parents become the people you visit at Thanksgiving. You consider taking a summer class, renting a place with your friends (you ' ve stopped cringing at their odd Cleveland accents). You really can ' t imagine moving on. photos by Gary Harwood 20

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Herb Detrick Four rooms (no view) . . . what do you do with them? Plants are always a convenient remedy to lack of diningroom furniture (this page, top), and at Value-King, NEUCOM students Mitch Platin (left) and Anshu Guleria (right) stock up on a little something for their kitchen (above). A bathroom for one, like Michelle King ' s on South Depeyster, is a relief after a couple years of queuing up for a dorm shower (opposite top). But for real down-home atmosphere, nothing can beat a livingroom that ' s complete with fireplace and state of the art electronics, like the one enjoyed by Jeanette Plunkett in her house off Summit Street (opposite bottom). 22