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

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Student Union Board Bottling the suitcasers Whether it was for entertainment, home-cooked meals or a boyfriend or girlfriend, the weekend suitcasers formed a vast armada heading north and south on highway 71. Student Union Board, confronted with this problem, made a major effort to reduce the parting masses. We found that the only thing that consistently kept students on cam- pus was music, said SUB member Jim Clark. Because our funds didn ' t allow us to bring big name bands to campus every weekend, we went after local talent in Kansas City and Des Moines. We thought people might have seen them before and be interested in seeing them again. Movies were another big factor in upgrading campus entertainment. We brought the best recently released movies to campus that we could, said Clark. This included ' A Star is Born, ' ' Blazing Saddles, ' ' One on One, ' ' American Graffiti, ' and ' Oh, God. ' The reaction to the movies was excellent. Another source of entertainment was found in the form of coffee- houses. There were several coffee- houses during the year, said SUB President Pam Butner. Two of the most popular were Cole Tuckey and Joniums. At the Cole Tuckey performance there were about 700 people. Most of the students who attended appeared to have had a real good time. The biggest problem that we faced during the year was our budget of $29,000, which was about $2,000 less than the budget of the previous year, said Butner. It seemed as if everyone ' s prices went up, while our budget went down. Ideas were another problem for SUB, according to Butner. We had only 25 members to come up with ideas for an entire year. We tried to get more new members at the beginning of the spring semester but ended up with only four more people. It was hard to come up with ideas to please everyone with such a small number of people involved. Despite SUB ' s problems, the College Bowl, a college quiz game, was initiated. This involved com- petition between teams at an academic level, said Clark. It proved to be one of the biggest successes of the year. The student participation was excellent for a first-time event. Student attitude toward SUB was both positive and negative. Week- ends on campus were like politics. Nothing ever happened, said Jeff Richardson. If anything happened, it was all at the same time. Jeff Sachs thought the talent SUB brought to campus was below par for a school the size of NWMSU. But Tom Bujonowski said SUB was not to blame. The people here couldn ' t have cared less about what happened on campus. They just wanted to watch TV and run home on weekends— to what, I don ' t know, he said. L Widmer 28 UNION BOARD

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STUDENT SENATE 27

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BELi (W While sponsoi Marvin Silliman reads ova the minutes, Student Union Hoard mrmbi ' i Inn Clark agrees to help organize tin- College Bowl t ! n i loard hold meetings to set up differenl student activities BOI TOM Elvse Bohing and Linda Wolken l.iko iimno ,il tin ' Union Hoard movies. Every Thursday ind I ml, i tlio I mi. ii i Ho.inl s|mn ,i .1 i ' i movies al i lorace Mann I M I Cole Tuckey, a local group, performs at a coffeehouse Ac- cording to Union Board figures, 7(X1 | eople attended the perform- ance in the East Den. UNION BOARD 29