Patrick County High School - Archive Yearbook (Stuart, VA)

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HEARD IT SOARING EDUCATION COSTS PROMPT COMPARISON SHOPPING According to a 1986 survey, nine Virginia colleges and universities top the $10,000 mark for undergraduate tutition. The most expensive institution is Randolph-Macon Women’s College at $12,085. Mary Baldwin College in Staunton and Sweet Briar College in Sweet Briar reach $12,000 with Washington and Lee in Lexington, $11,950; Hollins College in Hollins, $11,900; Hampden-Sidney College in Hampden-Sydney, $10,850; Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, $10,400; University of Richmond in Richmond, $10,075; and Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, $10,025. The following listing may prove helpful for college planning: (costs reflect tuition ONLY) NAME LOCATION Averett College, Danville ENROLLMENT 972 IN STATE COST $7800 Bluefield College, Bluefield 400 $5980 Bridgewater College, Bridgewater Christian Broadcast Network 819 $8985 University, Virginia Beach none $4000 Christopher Newport College, Newport News none $1770 Eastern Mennonite College, Harrisonburg Mennonite $8250 Emory and Henry College, Emory United Methodist $7794 Ferrum College, Ferrum United Methodist $7450 George Mason University, Fairfax none $5282 Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden Sydney Presbyterian $10,850 Hampton University, Hampton none $6464 Hollins College, Roanoke none $11,900 James Madison University, Harrisonburg none $5220 Liberty College, Lynchburg Baptist $6240 Longwood College, Farmville none $5299 Lynchburg College, Lynchburg Christian $10,025 Mary Baldwin College, Staunton Presbyterian $11,185 Marymount University, Arlington Roman Catholic $9800 Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg none $4960 Norfolk State University, Norfolk none $3588 Old Dominion University, Norfolk none $5441 14 Mini-Mag

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To complete a job of such giant proportions, as the Mayo River Flood control project, requires heavy equipment. However, the benefits from such a project justify the assets needed for its completion. T.G.I.F.!! Finally it is Friday!! You have looked forward to this day for a week. As the tardy bell rings you stop to compare weekend plans. Run, you are late! The excitement of weekends hits everyone from greenies to Mr. Hiatt. Students seem more talkative than usual and teach¬ ers often have to write the day off as class discussions. How¬ ever they managed, students made it through the day and breathed easier at the 3:02 bell. Friday nights were usually set aside to go see the games and to cheer the Cougars to vic¬ tory. Afterwards, many went to Druthers, the Cougar Den or just riding around town. Saturdays are a different sto¬ ry .. . Sleeping late, eating late, and goofing off! Some prefer to eat while watching the antics of Pee Wee Herman or the Smurfs, or some other cartoon. Others prefer to get going, and take off shopping! And still oth¬ ers spent their Saturdays add¬ ing to, instead of depleting from, their bank accounts. After a tiring day, students were ready to have some fun! Whether it was a night at the movies, pigging out on pizza, or spending the evening watching TV at a friends house. Saturday night was the night to be out. It seems everyone waits until Sunday night to do their home¬ work. ‘‘Somehow I manage to cram itall in on Sunday nignt. “I just do not have the time until then, admitted Pam Hopkins. It seems like that only on Sun¬ day night do most students re¬ alize that Monday is closing in. I do some of it Sunday from 1 to 3 and take a break from 8 to whenever,” says Tim Britt. A few do their homework ahead of time, some do it Sunday night and forfeit sleep, and the majority leave it to homeroom on Monday morning. In either case, they don’t regret the weekend and plan to do it again! AHH, sleep. The perfect end¬ ing to any weekend. As you be¬ gin to drift off, something in the back of your mind reminds you of the English paper due tomor¬ row. You try the tried-and-true method of “out of mind, out of sight”, but more thoughts come flooding in—a Spanish test, and Chemistry quiz . . . oh, and Geometry homework. Which will it be, sleep or home¬ work? The choice is yours. LASER: READING IT LOUD CLEAR What do you think of when you hear C.D.? No, not “10-4 good buddy.” We’re talking about compact discs; the big¬ gest innovation in sound since the invention of the phono¬ graph. Using a laser to read the disc instead of a stylus makes even the smallest component of mu¬ sic come through loud and clear. Just what has made compact discs all the rage? It ' s their su¬ per-clean sound, without the hisses or scratches of long- played records or tapes. The discs are unscratchable, com¬ pact, and yes, have an infinite playing time. Though hard to find at first and restrictively expensive, the availability of the discs has in¬ creased. Compact discs are the wave of the Eighties, stat¬ ed MCA Records executive Roger Phillip. As Mr. Kloock sees it, “The sound is beyond comparison and it won’t be long before we see the prices of discs become lower than the prices of albums and tapes.” Though not unreasonably ex¬ pensive, compact players do cost a little more than your reg¬ ular stereo, beginning at $250. According to enthusiast Tim Britt, “the sound is so perfect that you can even hear some¬ one cough on it. And listening to drums on one is just like be¬ ing on stage.” As for the future of compact discs, they could pass in and out as quickly as eight tracks did. But the experts don’t think so. According to them, C.D’s will make records obsolete. CHEERS! Alcoholism and problem drinking cost the economy over $71 million a day — $27 mil¬ lion is from lost work, $23 mil¬ lion in health and medical costs, $18 million in motor ve¬ hicle accidents, $2 million in research and prevention pro¬ grams, and $1.4 million in criminal justice costs according to the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services links alcohol to: 37 out of 100 suicides, 70 out of every 100 murders, 50 out of every 100 arrests, 20,500 deaths a year, and more mental hospital admissions than any other cause. In addition: Between 45 and 60% of all fatal crashes involving a young person are alcohol related. Approximately one-half of all fire deaths involve drinking. About 50% of those who died in falling accidents had been drinking. Over 50% of drowning vic¬ tims had been drinking. Mini-Mag 13

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HEARD IT NAME LOCATION Radford University, Radford ENROLLMENT none IN STATE COST $4846 Randolph-Macon College, Ashland United Methodist $10,440 Randolph-Macon Women’s College, Lynchburg United Methodist $12,085 Richard Bland College of the College of William and Mary, Petersburg none $1190 Richmond, University of, Richmond Baptist $10,075 Roanoke College, Salem Lutheran $8650 Saint Paul’s College, Lawrenceville Episcopal $5895 Shenandoah College and Conservatory of Music United Methodist $9400 Southern Seminary Junior College, Buena Vista none $8600 Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar none $12,000 Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, Richmond Presbyterian $7576 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond none $5050 Virginia Intermont College, Bristol Baptist $6975 Virginia Military Institute, Lexington none $6575 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg none $4062 Virginia State University, Petersburg none $4000 Virginia Union University, Richmond Baptist $6507 Virginia, University of, Charlottesville none $4988 Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk United Methodist $8950 Washington and Lee University, Lexington none $11,950 William and Mary, The College of, Williamsburg none $5754 Mini-Mag 15