Park University - Narva Yearbook (Parkville, MO)

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Imagine. There you are two-hundred miles off the coast of some tropical is¬ land. You ' re about to make your first dive. The air in your tanks have been checked, your mouth piece is o.k. and so are your air hoses. This is it. You ' re finally going to make that first big dive. Now you ' re 100 feet below the sur¬ face of the water. It ' s hard to believe what you ' re seeing. There is nothing around you but clear blue water. Sud¬ denly, a strange fish swims past youQ mask. Over to your right is th re m aw of some sunken shia B t . that coming looks like, noMfe ®; maybe . . . imS Now that ' si ' m js the tirnC - ' Aftef- thirt cit tank. After se al tries and a few abrupt returns to the surface, the stu¬ dents seemed to have the system pretty well mastered. At the end of dent had to tal di B Na a s an open wa¬ ter check Lake of the Ozark f i i(into ( ilA their certifi- catesH i-haeosed diver j ce they passe toplest and a written n ' 3 ' bl ites t, Jjl ai were certified divers. Thi the students can now go diving the United States. KSI ipU er of the Dive Shop ' N |fi |t |-Ciass . d-said- the to team.” Students in the class cwn|] ga if was great, and added everything is better underwater. Scuba Diving will be loffered again in the Fall of 81 and if y take, ydu too mavv,j»i!lOday bnd up offthe cgagt of island, JC s mSialong antr d al out if that to leave. That first big dive. Many of us may never experience it, but for the eight students enrolled in the Scuba Diving class, it ' s a thing of the past. Scuba (Self-Contained-Underwater- Breathing-Apperatus) Diving was offered for tha rst time at Park taSt semester snaflUprwig to the stud tis. ' 1 h took A|i| Pch as equipment? ing tech- jiipip water safety and thi effects of wcohol, drugs and to faaccq J av e on the Every other w |pt J||pdents would meet in thej ol to practice and perfect j SK H use of the buddy system : Vj | it acticed. Here the students who .wete idivided up into groups of two ' s, W qpfd tnrow alh their equipment in the pool except one air tank and mouth piece, and ' simultaniously jump into the vyater and try to put their equipment a . On. While under the water, the fljad to share that one oxygen ?rt)ct6pus. see all one you deeid nf o a while. You ' fe )f your heartbeats, founding of your SCUBA DIVING 25

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The Park Stylus Volume 86, Number 16 %L. Parkville, Missouri Friday, January 30, 1981 The Park Stylus publishes all the news that’s fit to print The Stylus and the new journalism program grew together this year, estab¬ lishing many firsts. Editor Deborah Ground, a political sci¬ ence major, said she accepted her posi¬ tion hoping to bring new organization to the paper. She said this was accom¬ plished through regular meetings of a full editorial staff. A paper with a new look of maturity” was produced. The Stylus has become a workshop for Park ' s new print journalism program. Like all ' start-up ' years, it ' s had its ups and downs. It is important that the journalism program and the Stylus mesh—that they become more a part of each other,” said department chair¬ man Wallace Watson, in his first year as Stylus adviser. Ground said the paper has achieved her goals of improved content. She cited Life after Park” features and han¬ dling of controversies like the distur¬ bances in Dearing and the bookstore break-in as examples of quality report¬ ing. Looking back, I would not change the handling of any one of those issues,” said Ground. Ground said more writers would have helped the paper. Still,” she added, we never had to resort to commercial press releases just to fill up our pages.” This year the Stylus staff published 28 issues. A new record was estab¬ lished with production of an issue the first week of school after only three days of classes. Watson said, There have been some very good stories. Some have been dis¬ appointing, but we still have things to learn.” $TYLUS 27