Portland State University - Viking Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASSES Portland State's great Ieveler is gone-the gauntlet of s ering in the Old Main locker room run by every male u classman for the last ten years-a sort of PSC roulette stakes of icy or scalding water. One of PSC's less hallowed traditions, taking PE in the Main gym, died an unmourned death spring term. The old gym floor and the cramped locker room facilities already seen 50 years of service when Portland State b using them in 1955. No one suspected that it would years before PSC gym classes would move to a better fa The Old Main gym was barely tolerable in PSC's early but as enrollment doubled and tripled the gym beca crowded that underclassmen adopted the name used by erations of high school students-the Black Hole of Cal Taking PE in Old Main was a unique experience. The PE was not as exhausting an ordeal as dressing down and s ering. Each hour two waves of students, one hurryi shower and dress, the other attempting to shed its clothes and slip on the standard PE garb, would colli the locker room and the resulting maelstrom made wish for a medical release from PE. Nude, sweaty bodies bodies fresh from the showers, and a tangle of human b in various stages of undress competed for space to br and to dress. When you finally dressed and were hurryi make it to a class in South Park Hall, a sweaty piece of gear might catch you across the face or a wet body brus as you pushed through the tangled mass of humanity.

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