Southwest Baptist University - Mozarkian Yearbook (Bolivar, MO)

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EGISTRATION -- the first Trials by Fire' of College Life

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MOVING IN, ENROLLMENT, a A new year--familiar faces, old procedures with new variations, many new faces--thus begins the fall semester in the life of a college student. To be seen frequently during those first few days of lines and waiting and the excited murmur of catching up for three entire months, is the bewildered, perhaps even panicked, countenance of a freshman. Above right, Dean Padgett checks a student's schedule. Left,awalking coat? Right, Beth Ensminger brings cuddly friends to school. Opposite page, one of many stops on the student's way through enroll- ment. Q ffisfi

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Freshmen will long remember the rough treatment endured during their Initiation Week. The week traditionally begins with a march lthough many runl to Dunnegan Park where the freshmen sample a taste of sophomore revenge. Each freshman is assigned to a family which is parented by upperclassmen. The initiatory rites culminate with the Freshmen Talent Show in which many of the freshmen prove that all of their number are not green and ignorant. Twirp Week is an annual event which affords many SWBC co-eds with an opportunity for dating the males of their choice. Because of Twirp Week traditions, the activities of the date, as well as the financing, is left entirely for the girls to provide. Above, Streaks of shaving cream destroy the composure of Norma Parkinson-and satisfy frustrated upperclassmen. Lower left, Freshmen young men have the opportunity to propose--not always to the young women of their choice. Upper right, Twirp Week liberates otherwise inhibited coeds. Lower right, Ambitious freshmen energetically begin the KJ-FE march to Dunnegan Park, hands held high over heads.