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

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,W 5 xxx ff , Ni i A! KI Helen Blakeman, acting dean of women, replaces Dean ol Women Bonnie Bourg, who is on sabbati- cal, in working with the women's organizations at Nicholls and as Greek Panhellenic advisor. The biggest tear of dorm residents, a power failure. The blow-out in January left both Ellender and North and South Babington dorms without power fora week. 44- v 4 ,GW -ff , . dorm lite has been called

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whafever If was called center of the campus offered the Student Union game room or Peltier Auditorium movie theater for the Student Entertain ment Board Movies were shown at 2 p m for com muters and again at 7 p m for dorm resi dents Polk Library also offered the resources for a term paper or a quiet haven to study Adjacent to Meade Hall the university tennis courts had as many night players even past midnight as competitors dur ing class hours During the fall semester a home toot ball game helped to liven up the campus However when football ended and during the spring a dead atmosphere came over the campus Nothing to do was the common complaint as the SEB experimented with showing weekend movies double tea tures and horror shows But try as one might the weekends found commuters home the off campus students busy and many dorm residents also gone But some did find the quiet useful With few people on campus a needed library book was available the cafeteria wasn t crowded and no one objected to switching the television channel. The end of each semester brought the same amount of confusion the opening Before a student could check out of the dorm a residential advisor had to inspect and certify the room had no dam- a e. Take out a semester s worth of accu- mulated living turn in the key and say goodbye to the dorm. . . .whatever it wascalled. . . With the moratorium passed by the leg- islature to ban the construction of dorms for the next few years, little is expected to change in the number of students the campus will be able to house. While in enrollment the university has already reached the 1977-78 projection, only 1350 students will be housed on campus next year, and the year after. During the summer legislative session in Baton Bouge, the senate passed a bill dorm life has been called . . to fund the construction of a dorm for married students Should the bill pass in the proposed state budget the dorm could be ready for early 1978 One of the drawbacks to housing con struction is the uncertainty of if it will be needed when finished With a new dorm taking two years to construct Nicholls would have no guar antee the demand for campus housing would be needed leaving the university an empty building and no means to pay for it a situation encountered by many other universities William Duncan dean of men is available to help both dorm and other male students with problems which might arise from college life He also serves as Greek IFC advisor J0 xiii me 51:2 '32 I 9 fel Wu Part of the crowd at an SGA-sponsored block party crowd around to hear the rock band on the steps of the Student Union. The party was free to all dorm residents.

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