Southeast Missouri State University - Sagamore Yearbook (Cape Girardeau, MO)

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The greatest tricils of cull: enrollment, the textbook hurdles, the microfilm- ing, the ID showings, ond this ond so much more .... TRIALS OF ENROLLMENTI LINES, LINES, LINES Morning comes. More discussion, more campus tours, more standing in lineg but nothing seems to dampen their inconquerable Spirits. Then the greatest trial of all: enrollment. Here there is no possibility of steering be- tween Charybdis and Scyllag this fate must be met head-on-and it is. Lines and lines, and then more lines, more closed classes, more blank forms, more neuroses. The faces in the crowd grow haggarcl. The textbook hurdle is next according to tournament rules. The problem is to locate them without getting stepped on or lost. Claustrophobiacs suffer mostg for them the ordeal is almost too much to bear. After the books are found, after the ID showings, after the microfilming, and this and So much more, then wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh. The challenge so reluc- tantly accepted was metg the quest is over. I I Q' if T 5545 fe 2' ei .se We I- :S Lb , ..,,,,.-hm E ffffifii

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WHEELS NIGHT: FHRST TASTE OF FREEDCDM After the outing, a program beckons from Houck Stacliumg and after the program the students participate in Wheels Night, Where each organization engages in kinds of subterfuge to entice each susceptible freshman into membership. Many of the new students are in- terested, many have further questions to ask. And at last the organized day is over. From the confines of planned activity, the freshmen move out into the stilling night. Some, for the first time, learn the thrill of a new and rare freedom: to walk the cooling streets, to stare into bright places, to find- Oh do not ask what it is. Let us go and make our visitf' Cove dwellers, s elunkers to the initiates, entice fellow under P . ground men for membership. A new freedom: to walk the cooling streets, to stcire, to clo-these are the rare moments. l 13

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the evening sleeps RESPITE FOR .IARRED NERVES: COLLEGE BEGINS, PROCRASTINATICN SETS IN The injured spirits are given respite. And then for new gatherings, new picnics, new programs, new parties. By the end of the week, days begin to take on a familiar pattern. Strained acquaintances begin to grow into friends. A new life is really begun. And was it worth it after all? College officially begins. Days of classes come and go with rushed regularity. Will there ever be time? There will be timeg there will be time-at least this is the voice of the typical pro- crastinator, or hopeful, or call it what you will. Memorial Hall becomes a home for those away from home. 'Those who frequent the place enjoy measuring out their lives with coffee spoons. The afternoon, peacefully. . . Anatomy class begins in medias res as the pectoral section is thoroughly examined. Janet Hopkins, hopeful stuolier-. Memorial Hall for those who measure out their lives with coffee spoons.