Nicholls State University - La Pirogue Yearbook (Thibodaux, LA)

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offered, major problems were reduced to the number of hours scheduled. Q smaller ones, when they were solved. Fees are to be adjusted per hour of class Many high school students, having gradu- ratherthan total loads carried asinthe past. ated in May or on the early admissions pro- Businesses in Thibodaux will line up more gram attend Nicholls. welcome back sales, celebrations and offers This time is used by them to get used to col- for students. lege, learn their way around and get a head Construction of the swimming pool has start on their classes before fall. progressed rapidly during the summer, with Changes nexf year include switch in dorm occupancy and fee assessmenfs With the coming of next tall, many students will still go through the hardest first weeks of college, or so it will seem. A few of the expected changes: M. J. Zeringue Hall, a dorm for men, will be con- verted to a women's dormitory. The men will be occupying only H. P. Long and R. J. Millet Halls. Tuition is expected to increase, according to expected completion sometime in mid-1977. For the incoming freshman or transfer stu- dent, it's the hardest time of the semester. The first weeks of each semester. They always seem the hardest. But by the end of the semester, they can be hardly remembered. Lines look the same at any college campus during registra- tion as students look around, talk and compare classes in an effort to kill time waiting for the line to move. M' T 7? ?'f 'f37'v 'ff I , ,- -F7-n an . Counting, juggling and wondering, Sonja Einnis checks her load in the bookstore before checking out. Her check showed the absence of a book, picked up by someone else.

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ith the coming of a hurricane: nothing to do except to wait and to wait Hurricane Eloise increased in strength during the night and has been again upgraded from tropical storm to hurricane status. Hurricane warnings are in effect from Grand Isle, La. to Applachicola, Fla. At 9 a.m. CDT., the center ...... was 260 miles south of New Orleans. . . moving north at 14 miles per hour . . UP! teletype 9f22f 75 courtesy K VF G-F M. Eloise has not responded to a number of factors that favor strength- ening, and unless winds increase rap- idly, the system will move inland as a minimal tropical storm, Dr. Neil Frank, director of the National l-lurrl- cane Center told the wire services Sat- urday, September 20. What he was talking about was Hur- ricane Eloise, formed less than a week before in the Carribbean and already responsible for the deaths of at least 28 people, injury of 300, 5,000 driven from their homes in Puerto Rico and S10 million in property damage. The hurricane had passed over the mountains of Cuba and held winds of only 35 mph as it headed tovvard the Yucatan coast. But in the early morning Sunday hours then Tropical Storm Eloise proved two beliefs held by those who lived along the Louisiana coast: a hur- ricane never makes up its mind where it wants to go and any hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico is liable to hit Louisiana. The National Hurricane Center in Miami placed Eloise 485 miles south of Louisiana but still not having the strength to be called a hurricane. Nic- holls students attending classes for only three weeks felt no threat. The commuter who got into his car at 7 a.m. that Monday morning heard the broadcast which shaped what the Maintenance men prepare the cafeteria for Eloise, as students finish lunch. Don Westbrook on WWL, gives Eloise's position the night she turned toward the coast. l r I gk' --- . .. .Q -Q, -,H 1 f-- ', . N, I . tt N. . -.ag .. .. Q x 5 Q I tix N v,U....'.',. ,, Wi ,.,.........-u -.,. .ll. - -- 2 miqQS'i'i-RE g 1 x 4 X . xx V n Li ' . . .Q N , Li , T atv Q. 0 x , if ' 1 'E s 'La ' X s. , 'ml H X - 9 lg-'Q '- . ' Q ' l Xl 5 ., . gr ,Q I N J -Q' r i ' V. ' - t i l :. h Q ' ix 'A 1 3 1 X - Q I' if ., -Q . '3,, ' +L! In Q . I-tlm gx X if . . 5'-ll! A r g - .x , 5 W. . 'A l -, .msg A ,Q , . ' , vi in S it yi i , Q . s tk , vg 5 l ' a tv. 5 iff' ' e Wi' ' T , .-N A . EE s ,. If A t F A It r Af V ' 3 F F i K , s v r , . . w sie q k 5 v ui, . ' ll - N ' 1 - l , . l . P , . f l a N ,l ' f ' ft -by . M , 1 A 0, 'X I' icq s ,VQ ,f X., Y .v ' ' K X ' , 3 f .Q Ju, ' ' ' we 4 , t -5, T - 'N2 i-D' 'T- 'r 'J' ' ,. '. ww 1 18 HLITTIFBIWGEIOISE G . I ' 3' A .,