Memphis State University - DeSoto Yearbook (Memphis, TN)

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AvjX te Opening 2 Student Life 8 Academics 74 Sports 126 People 168 Organizations 248 Greeks 272 Index 324 Closing 332 • 2 Opening

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Fireworks at all the home football games were just a small sample of the many exciting things in store for the Memphis State community during the year . University of the 80 ' s 1984 DeSoto Memphis State University Memphis Term., 38152 Volume 72

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■ % -n . 7V , f - M ' : — « 6 . r ' Images. Beyond the statue of Elvis and the Libertyland gate, these images of Memphis meet the knowing eye of a Memphis State student and remind him of how it is and was to be part of this experience at this time and place. Reflections, both real and surreal. Sometimes the cinemascopic panorama of a scene stretched bigger- than-life across the eye ' s curved surface, bending reality in ways it may never be shaped again. At this time and place an acceptabled phenomenon made more palatable because the time and place is right for suspending the concrete and allowing the mind to stretch as well, even if the perspective we brought here is altered in the process. This dreamlike lapse is neither a negation of our perspective nor a random search for something to replace it. The lapse is merely an altered and temporary state, permissible for this moment when it may never be permissible again or before. It is a time for expanding horizons and imagining what realities lie beyond that which can be easily grasped. And yet it is a time for reality as well. We seek not fantasy but knowledge; not escape but involvement; not error but truth. Our eyes are open to the fact that we are of this world. The goal is self- fulfillment but with a wider purpose. Inconsistencies. The contrasts of time and motion, beauty and the commonplace, age and eternity, vocation and avocation. ..all juxtaposed in a kaleidoscope of color or in patterns of shapes and sizes seemingly designed to confuse, only present choices. Perhaps it ' s the decisions we must now make that will take us away, one way or the other. Selections can no longer be made for us. They are ours to make. Opening 3