Palm Beach Community College - Galleon Yearbook (Lake Worth, FL)

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SPOKI ' S Co-ed Palm Beach Junior College offers a wide variety of co-ed sports with some of the finest instructors to help you with the many aspects of the games. The student will be instructed on the theory, terminology, and application of the rules along with the strategy, skills, and techniques of the sport. The co-ed program also emphasizes the humerous goof-ups and side splitting antics that synonymous when male and female confront each other in sports. There are many co-ed sports offered such as tennis, badmintton, archery, golf, gymnastics, self-defence, and volley ball, just to name a few. When students see the many excellent co-ed sports offered they should real- ize the amount of fun he she can have laughing and participating in all the humerous mistakes and antics that accompany the learning of the rules and techniques of the sport. For the sports oriented person, P.B.J.C. ' s co- ed program offers many interesting challenges to be met and conquered. When the not so oriented person gets involved, that is when all kinds of funny incidents occur. Students who consider themselves in this category should be aware that they will not be put on public display, but should beable to laugh and learn by their mistakes. The student may ask what can be so funny about co-ed sports, after all its suppossed to an ideal learning sit- uation with different views and abili- ties from the opposite sex. But when the person does participate in one of the programs offered he she will qui- ckly become aware that they are in for a hilarious time. Events such as massive divits in the driving range and wildly hit golf balls flying into oblivion. Minor hurts and sprains may happen though they the- mselves are not funny, the method they were obtained was. Such as running away from a birage of stray arrows, or when Mr. Sport gets swat- ted in the eye because she didn ' t like the way he was assisting her with her tennis swing . The self-defense program also offers a valuable lesson in self and pro- perty protection, while providing one of the most humerous windows to observe student actions. Little girls dumping big guys on their bottoms and big guys falling for all the cute little girls. Students should not be alarmed by flying objects: grass, balls, people, rackets or anything else avail- able to throw when someone has one of those days . There is one con- solation; if a student never grasps the sport, he she will still benefit from the exercise, in retrieving all the things that were thrown in a moment of frustration. Coach Roy Bell has a humerous ob- servation about co-ed sports. It seems he says that the men will regress to little boys and act silly and over- protect the women when involved in a co-ed sport. On the other hand, when both are Involved in a team sport, the guys offer very little con- sideration to the ladies. So if you want a learning experience and a side splitting look at human nature, try a co-ed sport. Lenny Nichols

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. KI(JMIK)I{ ( Belle Glade ) Activities this year at tiie Glades Campus have centered around plans for the move to the new site at 1977 College Drive in Belle Glade. For five years the Armory has served ad- equately as the temporary quarters, but students, staff and faculty are anxiously anticipating occupancy of the new building. Dr. Conley reports there will be 4 laboratories for Bus- iness and the Sciences, 14 classrooms, 2 conference rooms, many offices and a well-equiped and spacious library. Highlights at Glades this term have been the 4th Annual Black Affairs Day and a Student Government trip to Busch Gardens in Tampa, Florida. Two new faculty members have been added to the instructional staff- Mr. James Lucas in the English Depart- ment and Mrs. Janette Campbell in Mathematics. Mrs. Sonya Watkins has been added to the Learning Resources staff and ably handles the media and equipment functions. Eula R. Robinson

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sroins Socrates wrote, Our youth from their earliest years must tai e part in all the more lawful forms of play. For if they are not surrounded with such an atmosphere they can never grow up to be well conducted and nirturous citizens. The intramural and recreational board tries to provide for the student this kind of opportunity. The board consists of intramural co-directors, men and women, intramural student assistant, intramural secretary of the respective intramural units, who are interested in planning activities and administering sports to provide a suc- cessful program of recreational sports for the student body. It is the board ' s aim to provide an opportunity to every individual to participate in some activity of his own choosing. The board is responsible for the planning of activities, developing the annual Calendar, administering sport activities, determining eligibility, planning the budget, and other duties neccessary for the intramural and recreational board. The students ability is not impor- tant, all the student needs is desire. Recreational activities are, and should be a desireable part of a student ' s program of education. It is hoped that the individual will develope an appreciation of the worthy use of leisure time and a wholesome attitude toward physical activity for recreation- al purposes later in life. Some of the activities include: badminton, jogging, fitness trail, kara- te, sailing, scuba, table tennis, swim meets, and flag-tag football. Intramurals is supported by the student. Every term, the student pays an activity fee as part of their tuition so the only cost to the student are the extra costs in the activities. The most popular intramural is bowling which has been in the program for the last 17 years, it is offered both in the fall and winter terms. In the fall there are men and women ' s leagues and in the winter there are co-ed teams. There have been as many as 20 teams at one time. The intramural and recreational board have hosted in the past, and will con- tinue to host the annual invitational handicapped tournaments which they invite other junior colleges to com- pete. They have done this for 16 years. The program is changing. At one time there were 15 flag-tag teams, but no longer because flag-tag is not a pop- ular sport anymore. The intramural and recreational board are changing activities for more individual, dual type sports. They have added free karate les- sons which are very popular, especially with the men students. It provides the students an opportunity to learn a pure form of karate. They have been successful in having highly trained students on campus with black belts. They give those students scholarships, which pays for tuition and books to teach the class. It is open to any- body- men, women, experienced or beginner. It has proven very succes- sful.