Salisbury University - Evergreen Yearbook (Salisbury, MD)

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A DEMONSTRATION OF ANGULAR MOMENTUM. Dr. Richard McKenzie accelerates a wheel to high speed in order to demonstrate changes in momentum to his Physics 221 class. SHOWING THEM HOW IT’S DONE, Lyle HAVING A FEW WORDS. Roomates Kathy Grandison dances at Cothman and Colleen Ritter have a the Black Student discussion outside the dining hall. Union dance. Changes also had to occur to meet this increase in size of the student body. So the school stepped ahead in faculty and administration in order to meet the demands of the increased student body. New people like Karen Kimpton, the assistant director of the college center programs, and Dr. William Lide, the professor and chairman of physical education and the director of athletics and campus recreation appeared. The campus itself stepped ahead with construction. Students had to be housed and well provided for. One new building, the new college center was receiving its last touches. Messages from the Book Rack appeared in the Newsletter reminding students of the impending move that always seemed to be just about to happen. The new center would provide a great many services. It would house all campus organizations as well as the snack bar. St. Martin’s, the newest dorm on campus, filled for its second and third full semesters. During the fall se mester though, students were tripled in rooms and some even lived in dorm lounges. Actually, at the beginning of the fall semester, 113 rooms on campus were triples, and 48 people resided in lounges. Some students, 4 Opening

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WHAT COLLEGE IS ALL ABOUT! Vikki Braxton plays pinball as Mimsy Molter looks on. Debbie Dutton takes a quick nap in Blackwell Library the registers to the back of the store and around a corner. Students like Leslie Stufft waited in the sweltering heat for over half an hour just to purchase books. And, in the Ruth Powell Dining Hall, lines were a regular occurrence for the first two or three weeks. Upperclassmen, like Ruth Fish were astonished by the full Maryland Room at 7:30 a.m.. “I can’t believe it! Lines for breakfast, this has never happened DO WHAT? Eric Vandetta prepares for a soccer game. before!” whispered through the room. “It’s all of the freshmen who haven’t learned not to get up for breakfast yet,” came the reply. Yes, it was true. The freshman class was the largest ever. Actually, the total enrollment was the largest ever. In size, the school was definitely stepping ahead . . . A NEW PROFESSION? Mr. Gilbert moonlights as a blackjack dealer at Las Vegas Night. Opening 3

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like Sharon Bold, found this overcrowding to be a definite drawback of the increasing campus. Just as with all major changes, there were various drawbacks. In some aspects, as the end of the college drew near, the school was leaving behind some important elements. Some students complained about the large numbers of close o uts of classes due to the overload of students on campus. Mandy Schellhase complained that she had to wait hours in drop add. There were also complaints about the loss of small classes. “That’s why I came here in the first place, because it was small and I could have close contact with my teachers,” commented senior Andy Spiegel. “If it had been a university when I was applying to colleges, I never would have come here, because I was looking for the small campus atmosphere, and the word university does not imply small.” However, the motive about campus seemed to be to reap all the benefits of university status while keeping as many of the other benefits of a small college as possible. Nevertheless, there was no doubt about it, the school was stepping ahead to university status. And so, it happened . . . Opening 5