Louisiana State University - Gumbo Yearbook (Baton Rouge, LA)

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The Campanile Clock is a well-loved object. It faith- fully chimes every hour to let the students out of class. Libraries are for reading, studying and thinking. During exam week, they have another use sleeping.

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t Imagine having military and chemistry on the same day. Maybe he ' s learning how to blow up the Company Commander ' s office. A study of the heavens intrigues these astronomy students as the instructor explains the fine points of a telescope.

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Just when people were beginning to think the con- tractors had gotten mixed up and were building the library underground, it miraculously started going up. Of course it ' s a class. You can ' t expect a dairy stu- dents to learn everything about a cow in the class- room. Students may find their classes meeting in the .irangest places from former hallways to reconverted restrooms. And the noise continues as the library goes up or, more correctly, down. (Then there ' s the story about the boy who used a carton of cigarettes to bribe a workman to drill outside his classroom window until the instructor was forced to dismiss class. Not at all insignificant in classwork are the dreaded exams. Four times a year, students go through the ritual of cramming watching the sun- rise over the edge of a Botany book, frantically de- ciphering notes taken when you were half asleep in the library. Then the Day. Then relief. Then the grades. College is not all work though. It ' s inter- spersed often with events such as ...