Middle Tennessee State University - Midlander Yearbook (Murfreesboro, TN)

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RUNNING It ' s just a feeling. I can ' t really de- scribe the way I feel when I run . . . there ' s a kind of threshold when the pain goes away, and I feel like I could run all day. When it ' s over I ' m drained but there ' s a kind of feeling of accomplish- ment. Not everybody can finish a ten mile run. Just try to drive around campus when the weather warms. Runners of all shapes and sizes on the sidewalks, in the road, on grassy road shoulders. They run for many differing reasons: to get in shape, to stay in sh ape, to meet new peo- ple but the overriding reason seems to be to feel good. No, good is too mild a term for the seasoned runner to use. Great seems to capture the feeling more accu- rately. To sum running up in one word is simple enough: feeling. Describing the feeling is harder to do. Sure, great is the simple way out but runners describe this feeling in terms ranging from mild euphoria to an escape from reality. It just depneds on the experience of the individual runner. Dedication is needed to be a runner. The runner must brave any kind of weather. Just like the mailman of Amer- ica the runner is not stopped by rain, snow, sleet or gloom of night. Leg cramps, blisters and other physical ail- ments may hamper the runner, but liber- al amounts of Ben-Gay and a slower pace seem to get aching muscles back in shape. The road beckons again. It looks easy, but most drop out after one week. To those that remain, the feel- ing and experience remains never grow- ing old. At times, a runner has to force himself into his running shoes and out the front door. If nothing else, there ' s always that feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment. In these days of mechanized comfort, those feelings aren ' t easy to come by.

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7 m 7 m dm The almost immortal Beach Boys, mi- nus their popular drummer Dennis Wil- son, played their way into the hearts and ears of a record crowd in Murphy Center last spring. Performing some of their better known hits such as Barbara Ann and California Girls , the Beach Boys were easily able t o transend the barrier of an- other generation ' s pop music to listena- ble, dance-able, and pleasureable songs. The group, after surviving the fickled recorder buyers taste thru the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s will enter into its fourth decade and they are still on the top of the album charts. Rarely can this be done in show business. Among the Do-Wa and Sha-na- na , the Beach Boys are versatile enough to try new types of music. Perhaps the courage of trying new forms of pop mu- sic is the secret of their success. What- ever it is it seems to work. In the rainy and agricultural land of Murfreesboro, many people dream of the sunny beaches of California. The idea of such beaches and n ' er-to-do type attitude were clear heard in their songs of surfer and sun. The crowd responded excitedly. Not to leave the popularity of their love songs out, the Beach Boys per- formed Help Me, Rhonda and Get Around . Again, the crowd was unta- meable. The only slow point in the entire con- cert was the Beach Boy ' s introduction to the crowd a surprising element: a new image into modern rock. Taking the cue from their last album (that sold very poorly), the Beach Boys failed to reach a climax with the crowd with their new songs. Overall, the Beach Boys and MTSU worked well together, despite a distorted sound system that sometimes caused problems and distracted from the whole concert. The concert was something that few concerts lack now days: it was some- thing that is rarely found in a concert on campus these days, and we are glad it happened here. 2 Beach Boys