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

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Flash Cadillac has low turnout: 400 explained the change was needed to meet unex- pected expenses: a new screen in Peltier Audito- rium, two new lenses and replacing a projector. Films themselves ranged from The Sting and Airport to Charles Bronson's Death Wish, Blue Water, White Death and the musical Camelot Non-students going to dances in the Student Union ballroom on Thursdays or after a Saturday night football game were met by collectors at the door, charging admission. In the past, a sizeable number of non-students had been attending SEB-sponsored dances. Not all dances charged admission, as a special '50s band was hired to play the night of the Homecoming Parade, with discount beer offered. Under the student government constitution, the SEB chairman is elected in November, so he and his committeemen can attend the National Enter- tainment Convention in Washington, D.C. in Jan- uary to get contacts for future entertainment. As the campaigning began for the spring semester, Chairman Lyndel Williams made his own decision. Attending graduate school at night, holding a full-time job and the directing SEB proved too much as he turned in his resignation the week before the election of the new chairman. SGA President John Weimer described the res- Doing a limbo between the legs of the bass and sax players, the Continental Kids even stretched out on the floor on their backs and continued playing. Stage antics were an important part of their show. After a lapse of several years, Mark Henley, a singerfsongwri- ter, brought back the coffeehouse evenings with two per- formances in the spring semester. Many students had never attended a coffeehouse before. 66 Vlash Cadillac :-I: ignatlon as unfortunate, but said Williams did the right thing. John Wilson was sworn in as interim SEB' chair- man to finish Williams' term. His only major act was to complete and stage the last concert of the semester, a three-act per- formance featuring an all-female band, Vixen. While the concert was late in starting Bus Riley, a local Thlbodaux band, began the evening. Vixen came on second, nearly an hour behind schedule. The concert attracted as many curious stu- dents as concert-goers, since none of the three bands were well-known. White Witch followed, beginning their perform- ance after 11 p.m., when only the strongest and hardest concert fans were left. Two students filed for the position of SEB chair- man for the spring, Tommy Lyons, a senior com- munication arts major and Larry Palestina, a sen- ior education major. The campaign of both candidates centered on how they would improve the SEB and what they believed the problem was during the fall. Lyons said a problem of communication

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