Northwest Missouri State University - Tower Yearbook (Maryville, MO)

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Thursday, March 7. After sundown the campus was mobbed with students milling around waiting for someone to streak again. They didn ' t wait long. The action was at Perrin and Hudson halls. Cars had been pulled up to provide lights for a nude male chorus line. An estimated sixty students paraded around sans clothing. Kansas City radio station WHB reported this as the record streak for a small university. (The University of Georgia captured the overall streaking record with over 1,000 streaking at one time.) Friday, March 8. Dean of Students Phillip Hayes released a bulletin stating that streaking was a violation of the Student Handbook rule that no student should call undue atten- tion to himself. The same day brought a drastic drop in temperature. There was no streaking that night, more because of the temperature and the usual Friday night exodus from campus than from any official warning. And that was the end of the streaking. There were a few more isolated incidences, but never of the magnitude of Thursday the Seventh. But NWMSU never really experienced a true streak. Dancing in a chorus line was more exhibitionism than streaking. Male students would stand in front of Millikan Hall and shout Do you want to see a streaker? When an affirmative answer was returned they would run behind the dorm, take off their clothes, then streak around the building. That ap- proach lacked surprise. It lacked finesse. A true streak involves a, pardon the expression, flash attack. Observers should have been unaware of an imminent streak. Then the streak should have ended almost as quickly as it began. But quickness meant that a streaker had to be in good physical shape. One streaker ran from Millikan, headed for Cooper Hall. As his friends, carrying his clothes, walked by the armory, they heard someone calling them from the bushes. The streaker had gotten tired and, once he stopped running, had become very conscious of his nudity. Streaking is already a past fad, taking its place beside the hula-hoop and gold fish swallowing. But by appearing and disappearing in just a few weeks, streaking was true to its very nature. OL streaking 27

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The sign was erected on College Avenue by the service drive between President Foster ' s residence and the college pond. It was bright yellow, and across the top, in bold black letters, was the legend: The Air Conditioning of Golden Hall. Below the legend were listed the names of the contractor, the architect, etc., like a glaring commercialized cornerstone. In the dark warrens of Golden before November. Further down College Avenue, the art students were having an un- official field day. The east side of Martindale Gymnasium was being demolished in order to add a new dance floor, classroom and office space. Much of the debris was soon recycled into avant-garde sculpture and brick-and-board bookshelves. The women ' s P.E. Department, mean- while, had moved into Perrin Hall for the duration. southwest of Phillips Hall, attempting to level it for a new baseball diamond and intramural athletic fields. Smaller pro- jects included landscaping around the student union, the installa- tion of ramps for paraplegic students, the construction of new sidewalks, and the replacement of damaged curbs and guttering. While no projects on the scale of Martindale Gym renovation are currently being contemplated, plans 3- - F ' . -v tk kZ V., ; .i ; r ' l .. -Kr »-w Hall itself, students were slowly becoming accustomed to dodging the showers of sparks from arc welders and to finding coveralled bodies dangling half- in and half out of restroom walls. Teachers, after rescuing their books from amidst the stacks of pipes in their offices, gathered in the lounge to discuss their joy at the prospect of teaching in a cool classroom, even though it soon became apparent that the job would not be completed Other renovation projects, less prominent but almost as extensive, were being carried out elsewhere. The floors of the Administration Building were completely retiled, while new offices were added on the fourth floor and five new home- economics kitchens were installed on the third. Renovation of Hake Hall was completed, and Wilson Hall was redecorated for use by Institutional Services and the I.S. Program. Earthmoving equipment battled mud all spring in the field are being made for such tasks as the replacement of the roof on Wells Library, the remodeling of McCracken Hall, and extensive safety programs including the installment of more ramps, stair rails and fire extinguishers at various locations. And somewhere in the uncertain future lies the possibility of a new football stadium. NWMSU, in 1974-75, may not have been a growing University. But it certainly wasn ' t a stagnant one. AM Construction 29