Morehead State University - Raconteur Yearbook (Morehead, KY)

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Whenever people get together, they usually start playing games for fun. Drinking games are popular at parties where there are one hundred people or just four or five. In the dorms, where two to four people are together tand where liquor is illegali for what can be long, duil hours, games with a few neighbors or friends can help reiieve tension, break the ennui, and get everybody laughing. First, the drinking games. They can become really imaginative if you get a deck of cards or some change. Most of them start out on the same basic premise: if you fail to get a certain thing you have to take a drink. The first game can be done with pennies or quarters. Everybody gets a full glass and some change. Then you flip your penny or quarter. Heads you get to give your glass to the person of your choice; tails - you have to drink it yourself. Another game with quarters tsometimes called Chandeliersi re- quires that you flip a quarter into the glass. if you miss it, you have to drink it. Cards can be used, too. Up the riverrdown the river is one card game combined with drinking. Each person gets four cards. Then three cards are laid face up in the center. Thatis up the river and if you have a matching numbered card you can give your drink to whomever you want. Then three more cards are laid down going the opposite way. if you have a match, you have to drink it your- self. iilt's fun and you get drunk really fast, said one experienced player. Not all games involve drinking, however. Trivial Pursuit is good if youtre stuck on a long weekend. There are five different kinds of i solitaire alone. Poker games can usually be scared up with a few neighbors or friends. And if plain poker gets boring, you can switch to blackjack or something else. Indian is a fun variation. Every player is dealt one card, face down, and cant look at it. Then, without looking, you raise it face out to your forehead, so you can see what everybody else has, but you dont know what your own card is. Then you place bets accordingly and everybody has a good time laughing at how silly you feel holding a card up over your forehead. Wherever you get college students together, from different backgrounds, with different ideas, and they let their imaginations go, you're sure to come up with interesting games. These are just a few, but every group, every fraternity, every dorm room has their own set of games that have become just another piece of the college experience. BY DONNA WILLS AND REBECCA ROBIN- ETTE ? BEER AND QUARTERS can be the beginning of some interesting games. Fraternities usually have a supply of both. PHOTO BY TIM CONN THERE'S MORE THAN one wa y to liven up a party. Shane Fannin, a freshman from Morehead, gets his friends at the Sig Ep house in a game of Mexican dice. PHO TO BY TIM CONN

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14 FRATERNITY PARTIES just wouldnt be right without the games, drinks, and good times. The Sigma Phi Epsilon fra- ternity shows that they know how to throw a party at their house on a Thursday night. PHOTO BY TIM CONN BREAKING THE BORE- DOM of all those long hours in the dorm room can be easy with a few friends and a friendly game. Playing a game of Maniac can help release the tension of the day. PHOTO BY TIM CONN IT'S AMAZING What you can do with a little beer and imagination. Les Cas- key, a sophomore music major from Morehead gets ready to have a good time using both PHOTO BY RHONDA THOMPSON

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FAMILIAR FACES gather together to celebrate the summer at local clubs. Annette Barnhill and Mike Metcalf enjoy the beginning of spring at Babe's Place owned by Don Krauth, MSU stu- dent. PHOTO BY IACK SIMPSON t MOREHEAD resident Louie Magda joins two female friends for a drink at the bar in Babe's Place. Magda's father is a pro- fessor on campus. PHOTO BY IACK SIMP- SON