Pratt Institute - Prattonia Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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E3 What We Love About Pratt Jake’s Art Supply e The satisfaction of saying “No” toa © Theunder-the-counter social intercourse. neighborhood kid who wants to buy a ¢ Requiring all of our employees to wear subway marker. an earring. e Taking a handful of Peanut Chews at © Discussing with a bum on the B-38 bus Mike’s, though only ordering a coffee. the constitutional injustices caused by e Closing whenever we want. the Reagan administration. e Making fictitious entries on student ¢ Hunting for an item for 20 minutes, charge accounts. only to have the customer end up chang- e The over-the-counter social intercourse. ing his mind.

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The Year in Review by Gary Monde Well kids, it certainly has been an event- ful year at the pride of the Western World —Pratt Institute. Good things have happened, bad things have happened, but mostly, eminently forgettable things have happened. So let’s take a little time to sort of mindlessly gloss over them ina totally random manner. Relax, take a deep breath (breathe into a paper bag if you have to), and prepare for a leisurely stag- ger down memory lane. The year started off on a roll with that wonderful tradition—orientation! This is when entering freshmen (most of whom are naive, small-town hicks) are given tours of the city, in hopes that they will become street-smart, big-city hicks. This year’s orientation went off almost without a hitch; the only problem being the disappearance of 15 new female stu- dents. However, only six months later, police found three of the missing girls working nights outside the Port Author- ity Bus Terminal. Details are still sketchy, but apparently it involves some sort of “street-vending” job. As orientation week ended, freshmen settled down to the difficult task of getting an education without actually attending too many classes. Meanwhile, many returning students faced readjusting to their inevitably crushing workloads and intolerably noisy roommates. Of course, sometime during the semester each stu- dent was also asked to take a few tests and maybe conjure up a design or two for their portfolios. On the high-tech side of things, Pratt completed purchase of a new $25 million Super Multi-Vox 9000 UltraComputer. Installation is on hold, however, until the leaking roof, crumbling walls and rotting floorboards in the new Main Building computer room can be repair- ed. Pratt is certainly in the forefront of 12 high-tech innovation! Everybody had a scare last semester when President Pratt mysteriously van- ished for five days. Seems he took a wrong exit off the Brooklyn-Queens Ex- pressway and got a little lost. The story had a happy ending though, when Mr. Pratt surfaced in Boise, Idaho. Fast- thinking Idaho authorities used the free postage on the back of his I.D. card to mail him home to New York. On the down side, there was The Wil- loughby Massacre. It happened the day after Pratt security guards were issued sidearms. 18 students were gunned down in the entrance of Willoughby Dorm after someone forgot to show their I.D. Fortunately, the security guard was as well trained in target practice as he was in other security procedures, and nobody was seriously injured (just flesh wounds). Thanks go out to the quick- witted administration for covering up the incident and preventing embarrass- ing articles in tabloids such as the Post, Daily News or the New York Times. On the lighter side, who could ever forget all those bitchin’ parties and con- certs? A stellar lineup of talent included such noteworthy bands as Sticky Fingers (Stones sound-alikes), Back Streets (Springsteen sound-alikes), and Spinal Meningitis (Spinal Tap sound-alikes). Truly something for every Jersey bar fan. So as you can see, it certainly has been a banner year! As we graduate and enter that real world often heard about, let’s all promise to distort the truth of our years on campus. When we tell our chil- dren of “those good old college days;’ let’s not have them think we were fotal clowns. And if I might add a note of per- sonal philosophy—in the words of Bucka- roo Banzai, “No matter where you go...there you are?’ a

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ARCHITECTURE. Front. Venus Chara, Michael Tormey, Omid Balouch. Row : William Daniels,-Robert Harlow, Sayam Chandr-Virochan, Diana Coronato Rich- ards, Ann Chara, Francisco Ramirez. Row 2: Denise Gillman, Sheri Clapman, Haris Hadjivasiliou, Susan Frooks, B. Tracy Brown, James Ho, David Johnson, Bar- bara Chakravarty, Marc Gordon, Nelson Spend a thrilling semester abroad, sketching twisted bodies in shallow graves! Photograph actual guerilla WHO’S WHO in the CAST Hernandez, Farnaz Mansuri, Mojan Nouban. Row 3: John Reed, Cono Dizeo, Rosanna Lee, Adrian Figueroa, John Géiuseffi, Prince Ellis, Georgeye Douglas, Carl Weinert, Evangelos Kontos, Mark Halstead, Wendell Edwards, Stuart Emmons, Young Koo. Back: Waikong Yee, Bernardo Gomez-Dallmeier, Stuart McFeely, Eric Daniels, Deborah Francis, death squads, or enjoy a leisurely day painting impressions of a ran- sacked, smoldering village. Contact your dept. chairperson for more information. 14