Truman State University - Echo Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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ACTIVITIES Campus activities provided a “play within a play” — an underlying theme that com- plemented the academic achievements of everyday life. The birth of a “new” Student Activities Board with a larger budget, produced more mini-concerts, purple omens, movies and Pzazzs, which helped divert student interest away from the books and toward the social life. A Homecoming victory with the influence of Walt Disney helped assure that fall festivities were a success even though rainy weather threatened to divert the Dirt Band from Kirksville. Receiving an education was made a little more tolerable with the help of the pleasant distractions of student activities.

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't A' student takes advant. • sunshine and .a soft bed Something Worth Waiting For It's not the fourth of July, so it can’t be Roman candles. What's that big ball of fire in the sky? I know I've seen it somewhere before. Wait. It's coming back to me. Now I remember. It's the sun. That long-lost source of warmth is back after a five-month recess. I want to shout it from the sundecks. Put away your parkas. Hang up your hip-boots. It's spring! Strange things begin to happen to me. Through sub-zero temperatures and icy blizzards I dragged myself to class, but this Roman candle sun seems to exert hypnotic powers over me. I do my best to fight it. I get ready for class, walk over to Violette Hall, open the door, then turn around. I just can't sit through another lecture when the big beautiful outdoors is there for me to enjoy. What does it matter if I miss one class? I’ll just stretch out here on the quadrangle and study. Psychology. Page 42. Freud's theory of psychosexual development. 12