Penn State University - La Vie Yearbook (University Park, PA)

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Danni! O'Connor O :1 her way to class, this bouncer keeps eff the busy streets. T he Cellar's patio provides a con- venient place to study over lunch for students who have a little extra time. Joel Grub n the steps of Willard Building, 0 reading the paper is one way to pass the time during a summer school day. anging out with their laundry H and plants, these gentlemen pass another State College afternoon. Tom Jones Summer 21

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display of pride covers a swim- mer' 5 modesty The outdoor A . 0 study may not be the ideal way to spend the summer, but grad- uation is the goal. 1 H ree time and a mutual interest in ; L juggling bring friends together on Old Main lawn. pool is a scoper's paradise. a TATE WPIUNS 1982 pring finals. Hustle, S bustle, cram, cram, then bam. School was out. Summer was here. There were empty parking spaces on College Ave. and no lines at the MAC machines. Help wanted signs appeared in store windows downtown. It looked like a scene from The Day After, and silence set- tled in the streets until the in- vasion of the construction workers. They tore up the sidewalks with jackhammers at seven in the morning, fixed old buildings, and worked on new buildings. Another group of people continued to work together through the break. The stu- dents taking intersession courses spent four weeks studying one subject, doing work that was normally spread over fifteen weeks, and earning three or four credits between spring and summer sessions. Martha Breuster tsr , Food SciJ took an accounting class during intersession. The small class tabout twenty peo- plel met from 8:00 to 10:15 ev- ery morning and was worth three credits. I liked it. A lot of the classes I've taken went slowly over fifteen weeks, but this was easy material and was presented in a very straightforward manner. Not all students shared Martha's optimistic outlook, however, and they breathed a sigh of relief as intersession ended and summer session began. Experienced summer students tried to schedule classes in the morning and saved the afternoons for play- ing in the sun. I tried to get all my classes in the morning so I could lie out in the afternoons, Teri Hoagey 0L, MIST said, but it didn't work out. I had to take a computer class that was only offered in the after- noon. s Lisa Borkowski tsr., Print JournJ also enjoyed summer session. I liked the classes because the teachers were a little more easy-going, and since classes were smaller, they had more time to devote to each of us. I also liked go- ing to the bars. I met a lot of people-you see the same faces and over and over. It was sort of like a big family. One interruption of this summer smallness came during the week of July 6 - 12 - the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts. To cele- brate the 20th anniversary of this annual spectacle, hun- dreds of people volunteered their time and put their tal- ents together to make it the biggest and the best ever. Crowds were still found in bars, at the outdoor pool at the Natatorium, and occas- sionally in a classroom, but otherwise things were back to the slow small summer scene. Only familiar faces remained, together again, to enjoy the last few weeks of summer. Students were sad when it came to an end. Martha Breuster summed it up. Summer's great. In the spring and fall everyone's rushing around, but in the summer there' 5 a slower pace. The people slow down, and everything' 5 a little more re- laxed. Everyone comes to- gether, and there's a little more time for sunshine. E Article - Laura Lenze Layout - John Walker 20 Summer

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