Millersville University - Touchstone Yearbook (Millersville, PA)

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PROOF Our fine feathered friend seems very well adjusted to his non oquatic home. Despite the no pets rule in Brookwood. residents found ways to take in roommates of a different species. Photo by Patrick Morgan Rich Davis and Kenny Geist jam with their band every chance they get Blackmail appeared at the Pirate's Cove and various bars in the area for fun and a little extra spending money. Photo by Scott Rancn process is osmosis. you absorb the culture without •: • ■ even:; conciously learning from it... you are stimulated. In August, 1987 1,828 freshman arrive on campus bright-eyed and bushy-tailed wit various expectations about this new and ex citing phase of their lives. Each one of the freshmen had their own ideas of what th next four years would hold for them. Whil some of them realized the work that wa ahead of them, a large majority of the ne students felt that the word “semester” w synonymous with “three months vacation.1 However, they soon found that fun for seve days a week and 4.0’s did not go hand-in hand. Freshman were not the only ones with ex pectations for the upcoming semesters. Sen iors saw this as their year to kick back an relax and simply enjoy their last two semes ters as students. Many seniors, however, found this to be a farce falsehood. There were resumes to be printed, jobs to be found an loose ends to tie up before they could leav Biemesderfer Stadium with a degree in their chosen fields. In the same way, people in the surrounding community saw MG as a loud campus that disturbed their privacy at night. They were not aware, however, of the students who spent their spare time working part-time jobs to support themselves or participating in extra-curricular activities in which they learned leadership skills and responsibility. The residents of Millersville also did not see the students who worked so diligently to either maintain or attain a high GPA. These students were seen in Ganser Library until the doors closed at midnight writing papers and studying. All in all, there was a lot more to our fine institution of higher education than pounding a few at Brookwood or near-by bars. We also took our prospective futures seriously by studying hard, completing internships for experience and basically going to all lengths to Insure more promising chances after MG. I r I 1 2 • Iniroducion

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 R O FRA DIT ION and r y lv J IL • • • • '-'and i auwUtc . . . V. tniny There were a lot of different things seen around campus this year. Some were positive changes and other changes we could have lived without. Greek life was more prominent than ever. Most fraternities and sororities accepted record-breaking numbers of pledges. For example. Delta Zeta pledged twelve new sisters in the spring — their largest group of pledges ever. Also, more greeks went national this year. Those that didn't become national were already in progress. These maintenance crew members wonder where to start. With the beginning of spring, came the sound of lawn mowers everywhere. Photo by Steix Dan ofth We voted for a fall break that will go into effect in the fall of 1988. The students apparently felt that the long stretch of classes between August, when the semester began, and Thanksgiving was just too long. By the time Thanksgiving did arrive, everyone was exhausted and more than ready for a break. The fall break will enable the students to have a four-day weekend in October. When the Charity Queen of 1987. Heidi Lahm, announced that her charity was the Clare House in Lancaster for the homeless it was just the beginning of our campaign for the homeless. We gave up lunches so that the money that would have paid for that lunch went to the homeless and we also donated clothes to them. At the same time, some of our own students were experiencing homelessness first hand. Several students found themselves with friends illegally or out of their trucks after being evicted from their own cozy apartments because they had a few hundred of their closest friends over to kick a couple of kegs. Psychology majors were still without a home while Byerly Hall was being renovated. Running from building to building for classes, these unfortunates prayed for their home-away-from-home to be completed next semester. We accepted all the inconveniences in stride and chalked them up to experience along with the pleasant memories we will always have of the Ville. 4 • Introduction