Pittsburg State University - Kanza Yearbook (Pittsburg, KS)

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 Student life—11 Beginning in the exceptional heat of August .1980, new faces and old popped up in Pittsburg. Moving in and settling down occupied the first week of school, and in addition to getting back together with old friends, students made new ones. One old “friend” that some weren’t so glad to see was the university bookstore. Long lines and high prices found students complaining about empty pockets. But there was enough money left to socialize a little! Faces changed nationally as the hostages came home and President Reagan took over the White House. Closer to home were Student Senate elections in the spring. In fashions, the year started out with Country and Western as the big look, but with late fall and spring, the preppy look from the East hit the Midwest. Students still headed for the Saddlehead and Rocking K in their blue jeans and cowboy hats, however. Some things will always be the same. More students spent their spare time in front of the television as soap operas gained popularity with men and women both. They rushed home after class so as not to miss this week’s villian in an ever-changing world. It’s a university. Every year, there will be another change of face. Lnarrging faces are what campuses are all about. Every year new ones come and old ones go, but student life remains pretty much the same. There is still Homecoming in Oc- tober, Christmas break, Spring Break and beer at Hollywood's. CIRCUS, CIRCUS was the 1980 Homecoming theme. John Emery and Deborah Mills ham it ■k xVP i n clown suits to help carry out the theme fJSa ri'ng the downtown parade.—photo by Kyle Cleveland

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SPRIN6 FEVER STRIKES Class attendance is obviously a requirement that college students must meet in order to do well in school. However, most of the students here on the Pittsburg State University campus agree that discipline in this area is sometimes difficult to maintain. Attendance can be a very difficult discipline problem for incoming freshmen especially. Although at- tendance in high school was much stricter, some freshmen find it very hard to handle such leniency in this area when they get to the college level. ‘‘It’s really hard at first to make yourself go to class, especially if you live in the dorm and you don’t have someone coming in to make sure you’re out of bed in time to make your first class,” said Karen Wills, Osage City freshman. “It’s also easier to stay out later the night before because you don’t have someone sitting at home waiting up to see what time you come home,” she laughed. There are a lot of different reasons why students cut classes. After a student has been confined to a very few activities during the winter months, he is ready, willing and able to take the opportunity to go fishing or sunbathing when a bright and sunny day happens along. After all, doesn’t that sound more appealing than listening to a biology lecture on the anatomy of the amoeba? “It’s really hard sometimes to drag yourself out of bed in the morning in order to make it to an 8:30 class, 12—Cutting class