Radford University - Beehive Yearbook (Radford, VA)

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Visualize the teenager, just graduated from high school and arriving at the college of his choice. He is scared. But why? Why this sense of trepidation at the very threshhold of all plans and aspirations? It is because entering a college or university is a traumatic experience. It is that first step to the future — a time to make decisions about that future; it is the move from child to adult, a long, long step. And most of us are so anxious to make the transition a successful one that we are nervous and touchy and just plain scared. Let’s look at the reality of this transition period. Is it indeed a frightening affair? Before we ever get to class, most of us have already overcome some considerable obstacles: we have made peace of one kind or another with new roommates (which in some cases deserves the purple heart for heroism); we have had phones installed, refrigerators rented, and we have even weathered registration and the snide remarks of a few upperclassmen. So far. not too bad. we figure. Then we come to realize quickly enough that the whole on-going classroom experience settles down into a challenge: how to make sense out of chaos. We find out it 's our job to give some kind of order to MxySulik 4 Introduction

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Table of Contents Introduction ......................4 Spring ...........................14 Classes ......................... 34 Administration and Staff.......206 Faculty .........................226 Activities ......................256 Sports ..........................298 Clubs and Organizations .........336 Greeks ......................... 380 Diversions ......................400 Topical Index ...................410 Conclusion ......................414

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