Texas Tech University - La Ventana Yearbook (Lubbock, TX)

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Kick back That ' s the life Monty Walton travelled to the Grand College seems so far away especial Canyon on an Army ROTC spring ly when you ' ve got South Padre Island waves and a brew in hand. The Great Escape — 15

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The great escape Now everybody ' s USA. Substitute skiing or backpacking or sitting around watching TV for surfing in the Beach Boys ' tribute to carefree living, and you might have an accurate description of spring break as experienced by Tech students. The traditional road trip to South Padre Island or Port Aransas was again among the favorite activities of Tech students during the class break, which lasted from March 13-21. I could live here forever, said Tech student Doug Brewer while sipping a beer on the hood of his brother ' s Corvette at Port Aransas. We came out here with a car, a tent and six cases of Michelob and we ' ve just been taking it easy. Too bad it ' s gotta end. The normally picturesque beaches became gutted with gone surfing, surfing — The Beach Boys tire tracks as they became superhighways for the thousands of visiting cars, trucks and motorcycles. By the week ' s end, the beaches were covered with empty beer cans, liquor bottles and discarded hamburger wrappers. Sure, we ' re glad to have all the college kids come down, said Lois Wright, owner of a Tshirt souvenir shop in Aransas Pass. Sometimes kids are so destructive, though. The same thing happens every year. They ' ve always got to go and tear up the facilities and light fires, and they always leave the beach a mess. A trip to the mountains of New Mexico or Colorado gave ski buffs the oportunity to satifsfy cravings for the snow and slopes. A four-hour drive is all that separates Downhill racer Tech student David Craig (left) com- petes In the Lubbock Ski Cup com- petition at Sierra Blanca Craig was one of many Raiders who made fre quent trips to the slopes Mark Rcxjtti Breaking camp In the Interior of the Grand Canyon, part of the Tech ROTC group prepares to break camp During spring break the group backpacked through much of the canyon ' s length Lubbock from the ski resorts of Eagle Creek and Sierra Blanca near Ruldoso, and Tech students made the ex- cursion in droves. Spring break gives us a big shot in the arm, said Ron Johnston of Ski West, a ski equipment sales and rental shop in Ruidoso. By March, a lot of the people have stop- ped coming here, and it helps to get a big crowd of students here who really like to ski. Most of them don ' t own their own ski equipment, so we do well in rentals as well as in sales. If it felt good, students did it during spring break Students not partial to skiing or sunbathing enjoyed ac- tivities ranging from backpacking the Interior ol the Grand Canyon to plop ' ping down In front of the tube and watching soap operas oij game shows or re-runs The Brady Bunch . The Beverly Hillbillies. Just getting away from the| dusty Lubbock climate madcl spring break worthwhile. Tb break may have lasted only i week, but what a week i was. — Jeff Tinnell 1 J 4 — The Great Escape

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Sorry, freshmen H Designed primari- IS ly to keep liquor out of the high schools, the new age law also kept a good number of Tech freshmen out of Lubbock bars and liquor I I I COLDWAT 9im OPEN 8 p.m. tie 2am WED.tktuSAT. NO ONE UNDER in YEARS OF ly AGE ADMITTED I D ' REQUIRED ai THE DOOR I ]6 — Hem Drinking Law