Park University - Narva Yearbook (Parkville, MO)

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A, utumn. Act One. The stage is set and the actors take their places for another production at Park College. The faculty, acting as director, and the administrators, acting as producer, give the signal. The curtain rises. The scene is a small campus on a hill overlooking the Missouri. The players fight their way through registration lines which eat summer earnings faster than you can say financial aid. They have the necessary props—books, posters to decorate rooms and enough clothes to keep them from doing laundry for a month. The upperclassmen know their parts well and the freshmen will take their cues from them. Dorm room assign¬ ments and apartment leases assure accomadations for the season. Conversations are heard in various build¬ ings across the campus. In MacKay: We need a list of the students in ... In the Pub: Tm taking eighteen hours. Are you taking . . . ? In Copley and Science Hall: Here are your course outlines. Just be¬ cause you ' re allowed three absences ... And in the dorm: Is there ever any hot water? You ' d think for as much as I ' m paying ... And the play progresses. The plot thick¬ ens and the players become individual characters. There are wild Friday nights and dreary Monday mornings. There is so much to see and so much to do. There are times to be together and times to be alone. And the play has just begun.