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

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ifveanna Churovich takes aim hoping to sink her final shot. Billiards is one of the many activities available to students at the recreation center. Competition of the college kind is displayed as John Hinton and Curtis Rosenthal vie for victory in a foosball contest. 21

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Recreation center provide activities With the arrival of a new coordinator, Jill Smyle, the uni- versity crafts and recreation centers experienced several programming changes this year. Some of the new activities initiated by Smyle, who replaced Meg Sutton when she be- came assistant director of the University Center, included leisure time, no credit courses in cake decorating, ceramics, wine appreciation, crocheting, macrame, and yoga. Two of the other classes offered were disco dancing and bartend- ing. They were co-sponsored by Dan ' ls Disco. Smyle was also hopeful of reopening the craft center which had been closed for a year. Among the materials available in the crafts center are a kiln and a potter ' s wheel. Other activities available are darts, backgammon, chess, and crib- bage. In the recreation center new things were happening too. The tops of the billiard tables were replaced, and students took advantage of bowling specials such as Date Night when students could bowl three games for $1.25, and Rent-a-Lane during which time the students could rent a lane for $3.25 per hour. There were also foosball, pingpong tables, and pin- ball machines available for student use. 20

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Disco fever Disco-mania invaded SEMSU en force this year as many areas of stu- dent life began to revolve around the disco scene. Danl ' s and The Downstairs Disco each provided dance floors for the re- lease of disco fever in its most popular form, but the art of disco was not con- fined to Saturday Night Fever. Both discos did a thriving business on weekdays as well as on weekends and in between times, students listened to their favorite disco tunes on stereos and radios. The album Saturday Night Fever itself sold over a million copies making stars of the Bee Gees. John Travolta, and their music. Other disco favorites included Donna Summers and The Vil- lage People. Not only were there record albums sold, but t-shirts, posters, and other memorabilia made fast bucks for those smart enough to cash in on the craze. The fashion world also cashed in by coming out with satin disco jackets, skirts, and slacks which appeared on the dance floors. Also popular were long skirts slit up the sides and glitter sparkled belts, earrings, and shoes. The Recreation Center responded to student interest by providing disco dance lessons as one of their leisure time courses. The class was sponsored in conjunction with Danl ' s Disco. The future of dance is in the hands of those to come in succeeding dec- ades, but the story of the TOs was defi- nitely disco. 22