Olivet Nazarene University - Aurora Yearbook (Bourbonnais, IL)

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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

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PHYSICAL CHANGES OLIVET UNDERGOES IMPROVEMENTS TO GIVE THE CAMPUS A NEW LOOK eturning after almost four months of absence, R students may not have recognized certain parts of Olivet ' s campus. A 430-foot radio tower for IB WKOC ' s FM station was erected at the east end of the campus near Snowbarger Athletic Park. Thirty-five thousand watts of power creates a 60-mile broadcasting range instead of the former 420 watts with a 15-mile range. Chicago, Champaign, and Pontiac, Illinois can be reached by WKOC, as well as several western counties of Indiana. The McClain parking lot disappeared over the summer and was replaced with grass. Several homes across the street from the former McClain parking lot were moved or demolished to make way for the new Ludwig parking area. Newly insulated steam lines provide heat and hot water service from Brodien Power Plant to eight campus buildings. The 800- g foot insulated steam lines replaces 40-year-old pipes. The | $150,000 steam line provides better heat for fewer operational % dollars. By Bruce Dillman. I Improvements 23