North Carolina State University - Agromeck Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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The eternal Waffle House sign glows, a beacon in the night to the weary college student or traveler in search of good late-night food, amiable surroundings and 8 songs for a dollar. Marks Inman By Michael Hughes One year at N.C. Stale. Sum it up in about live inehcs of newsprint. Sounds simpler than it is. In one year at NCSU. some pretty weird shit ean go down. Particularly if you consider the strange hours some people at this university keep. My most vivid memories are hash browns — scattered, smothered and covered at the Wairie House — at 4 in the morning. Hash browns, eggs and pots of black coffee were just what you needed to finish off that all-nighter for your history term paper. Unless you and the gang got thrown out for being loo loud, funny and obnoxious. Waffle House food tastes There were classes you attended with hangovers, and an occasional boring one spiced up by getting drunk beforehand. Parties lasting until dawn. Late homework. Even later papers. Excuses to professors. Pickup basketball in C ' armichael when you should have been studying for that midterm. Hut in the end. it was all worth it. Even if all your papers were late. Not so much for the education, the knowledge, the research, the GPAsand all that other stuffy stuff the university wants you to believe. But for the good limes you had with your friends. Because after yoiMeave this imiversity. the people will be what you Michael Htii hes. Technician ' s 1988 Manaf in Editor and 1989 Editor in-Chief, has one helhiva hook shot, was known to hand in papers more than six weeks late and likes his eii i s scramhied with a spot of hourhon to add flavor. Marks. Inman Opening-

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The True Meaning of College Folks in this Daniels Hall, early-morning electrical engi- neering class look like they just had a Waffle-House night. ALWAYS OPEN J k man ' ' ' falof I Opening

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g VlJ Bfc ir ' 1 m ' SM wa BH Mark S Inman Did Chancellor Poulton bet on the Wolfpack? Did Governor Martin? Gettin ' It in the 2 1st Century Mark S Inman Fishbone plays the Pier, a band joint that closed in 1 987. Joe Corey wrifes the ' Party Favors ' column for Technician, and is truly strange, despite the fact he li -es in a nice residential neighborhood in Cary. By Joe Corey By the time you read this. Til probably be dead. Not because I decided to shoot myself, but because most of you who buy this book will glance over this big hunk of copy and look at the picture of the totally nude man and woman engaged in a felony on the other page. I will too. But for those of you who do read this, it will probably be a hundred years from now. You would have found this book hidden away in the third level of the D.H. Hill basement. You would be looking at the pictures trying to get some cheap laughs off the bad haircuts and funny clothing that we actually wore thinking it was the cutting edge of fashion. You ' ll probably thinking this writing is stale and horrible like Pilgrams Progress. You ' ll be writing in a whole new style. You might not use verb tenses any more. Of course if I pull that crap now, somebody will call me stupid. We are all trapped to our society ' s whims. But what will a Year in the Life of N.C. State be like for you children of the brave new world? Since the age of people being admitted to college is dropping, pregnant mothers will be going to classes to get their fetuses off on the right cord. Computers will teach students through implanted electrodes. The roof of Reynolds Coliseum will have to be raised 50 feet so the new basketball recruits won ' t hurt their heads. GPAs will be thought of as old fashioned. The library will actually have the books you want. Hmm, maybe that is still science fiction. Of course there will be some downers to your time. William Shakespeare and Neil Simon will be thought of as equals. You ' ll have more things to remember in American history. Steven Kjng will be thought of as a great writer. Elvis will be thought of as a role model for small children. You ' ll be becoming aware of the post-orgasmic high of the bicentennial anniversary of this alleged university. All that will remain is tinsle in the gutter and tacky souvenirs with the offical symbol of the celebration at half price in the NCSU Bookstore. It will be just another year. You ' ll have to settle for being just another university. The president won ' t be visiting. Nightly fireworks won ' t be going off to the sounds of the school song. Camera crews won ' t be putting you on TV asking how ' s it feel to take part in such a historic year. The chancellor will only be seen at basketball games. Just another school year. Of course the AIDS thing will lead to people being Scotchguarded. Any contacting of flesh may be considered fatal. Germs the size of wild dogs will roam the dorm hallways looking for exposed flesh. But with the complete body condom, sexual happenings will once again reach orgy proportions. Everynight will be a night of sin. Everybody will be getting it on. Boy, I ' m going to miss not living in those times. 10 Opening