Olivet Nazarene University - Aurora Yearbook (Bourbonnais, IL)

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GRADUATION HF TRFNfTTH AND FXPFI I FNPF OF OLIVET LIE IN ITS PURPOSE hree hundred twenty-eight students were l honored as candidates for graduation on May 12, 1986. The day marked Olivet ' s seventy- m third Commencement Convocation. Special honors went to Lenora Roat who received the Outstanding Senior Citizenship Award for women from Dr. Leslie Parrott. She also became the first woman graduate to receive the Maggie Sloan Honors Graduate Award for exemplifying the ideals and purposes of Olivet. Rod Thill was the recipient of the Outstanding Senior Citizenship Award for men. In addition he received the Lincoln Laureate Award from the Lincoln Academy of Illinois. Highlights of the day included the Commencement address delivered by Dr. Willis E. Snowbarger, then vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college. He spoke on, A Col- lege of Quality and Character. In the course of the address Snowbarger queried, Is Olivet better than Harvard? He asserted the strength and excellence which lie in its purpose and goals. Underlying the success story of Olivet as an institution of higher learning is a whole volume of stories of sacrifice and lived out commitment, emphasized Snowbarger. By Heidi Vastbinder Graduation 19

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HOUSING HEADACHES FROM PICKING ROOMS TO MOVING OUT HOUSING CAN BE A PAIN oving home after nine months is different. You have to pack your life away into boxes and lug it Wk n down all those stairs to the car — or you can put it I m 1 in storage if you live on the far side of the earth like m | do. Last summer I stored three carpets, an end table, an easy chair and 21 boxes of junk. For freshmen it ' s worse. Not only do they have all the packing to do, they have room sign-ups. It used to be that the Freshman Run was an all-school event — freshmen girls camped in the lounge and Olivet guys sat out at 6 a.m. in lawn chairs with ticker tape and WKOC broadcasters to watch. I don ' t know why they cancelled the run this year — rumor says there were stampedes — but last year ' s girls had it easy. The dean ' s office gave numbers the night before so all they had to do in the morning was show up and wait till their number was called — like at the deli. Men have had that system for years but they ' ve turned it to their economic advantage. They scalp the low numbers. Hey, women, a word to the wise. By Cheryl Shira ▲ Emily Dillman and her mom Toni Sue McGuire and Deb Fletcher Housing Headaches 21