Northeastern State University - Tsa La Gi Yearbook (Tahlequah, OK)

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Me Se aaa 8 Northeastern State University

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Regardless of its origins, we all knew we were seeing new 3 times when the administration let out eleven o'clock classes for a pep rally. A pep rally at Northeastern? We were forced to wonder what was going down. ' To an outsider, that might not sound significant, but for | someone who had seen a few moons pass at NSU, it was quite i} asight to see a crowd, three thousand strong, mob around the president of the university. It was also remarkable knowing | ' that when they were shaking their fists in the air and shouting at the top of their lungs, they were yelling with him — not at him. We aren't saying the 60s and 70s were a total waste. Doub- tless a lot of good has come out of the turmoil that followed Vietnam, Watergate, and the other events that shook our opti- mism. On the other hand, it seems that Northeastern got caught up in the feeling of general hopelessness of the era. Morale ran low, cynicism ran high, and for all the things that make going to college unique and interesting mattered, most of us could have gotten as much from attending a correspond- ence school. Northeastern State University 7

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As the decade ends, NSU seems to be recovering from the feeling that we were all locked into a Sisyphus trip. People are talking about moving ahead, and working towards new goals. For years students wanted a pre-enrollment period. This year they got it. In the past there has been confusion about what to call the university. Was it NEOSU, NESU, NSU, NOSU, or what? To hopefully solve the problem a new logo was adopted. We are now NSU. Recognition value aside, the new design doesn't look bad on a T-shirt or bumper sticker. Northeastern is heading into the uncharted waters of the new decade. Will NSU be able to navigate through the unknown problems of the 1980s? Most people round here are betting it will. Northeastern State University 9