Ohio University - Athena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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From the 1954 Lounge, a place of casual sophistication, to the ping-pong and billiard tables and bowling alley, the Center is the hub of campus life. The piano in the 1804 Lounge appropri- ately responds to a soft minuet or breaks into a strident jazz that forces those who sit nearby to unwillingly tap their feet in time to the music. Students pause to glance into the deserted ballroom during the day and picture mentally how it appeared on the night of the big dance. With its candles and checkered table-cloths, the Cavern is a wonderful spot for a chat with your date. The music blaring from the juke-box, the clink of coffee cups between classes and the laughter is the Frontier Room — a good place to forget classes and humanly complain about every- thing to your friends. 26

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Freshman Week . . . tingling excitement kin to stage-fright . . . that first night in the dorm when everyone wonders, with pangs of homesickness punctuated by laughters and joking . . . the innumerable mimeographed sheets filled with garbled orders: shots to be taken, meetings to at- tend, awe-inspiring counseling appoint- ments . . . sorority rushing, rushing in the truest sense of the word . . registration, when no one knows exactly what to do . . . book-buying expeditions . . . the Fresh- man Mixer, the big once-over . . . the first nervous college date . . . and, most of all, the wonderful feeling of becoming a we. Registration-time problems ■i an Class-schedule problems

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TIME OUT FROM STUDYING... FOR RELAXATION