Truman State University - Echo Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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tring dow ized up? one 1e is You ooten AA? b4 A 4 AA- ue-A-, Hthf-carnpus. and on my own at last. This thought is typical of those who have spent a year or more in the residence hall and feel the need to get out. Off-Campus life can be an enjoyable way to live; that is, once moving in has been accomplished. After spending the summer anxiously awaiting the big moving day, the now lioff-campus student packs up and makes the trip as usual. Upon arrival, he finds his three roommates already moved in. He hopes they brought furniture because the place is sparsely furnished. Walking into the main room, he sees three lO-gallon aquariums and a TV. table with no TV His roommates eye him expectantly, all sitting on the only sofa to be seen. HHey, man we hope you got that TV. from your parents like ,you promised, one of them said. HWell, they couldnt afford one this summer, so they bought me this fishbowl and three guppies to watch instead . . . and so the troubles have begun. After unpacking what there was, it is nearly time for dinner. The student has no worries about kitchen and eating facilities. Each had agreed to bring his fair share. But who was to know they'd all have the same share? uMaybe we could eat in shiftsfl one roomie suggests, staring hopelessly at the two plates and 36 glasses arranged neatly in the cupboard. As time passes, so do such off-campus crises. After only a few weeks, the group has saved enough spare change to purchase a few plates, and have traded two of the aquariums in on a used television set. Apartment life turned out to be something special just as the student had expected. But moving in? Never again! -Diane Mennemeier Dobson Hall Resident, Kevin Grigg, makes 1 another trip UP four l'lightsof stairs. Aitert unpacking, baseball gloves and footballs. are popular articles. Not having enough arms poses a problem for many students when moving in, as Pam Kincaid finds out here. Clothes. groceries, wall posters, and a purse are too much for one trip A friend helping unpack is always a pleasant surprise, as Dorie Titone finds out when Connie Heaton helps her carry a load of clothes to her room. Seeing friends from school again always makes the move back easier. 19 Moving In

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No matter how many complaints may be made about residence hall food, students still head toward the cafeterias when 4:30 pm. rolls around. Strategically placed in the hallway outside of Missouri Hall cafeteria, the foosball table tempts residents to squander their loose change. The door looks like any other in spot to be, Foxworth said. iiI like Centennial Hall 127. She said, liI Missouri Hall except perhaps that this room. Itis convenient. kind of like this room. It,s close and the original numbers are gone and Since his freshman year, the handy. I'm only three doors from the 316 has been scrawled on it in senior law enforcement major has lounge. l pencil. Inside, the room is bare. No gone through four roommates. One Turner has had nine roommates posters, no curtains, and few got married, one transferred to the in her four years. She said she accessories are to be seen. A University of Missouri-Columbia, enjoyed meeting all those roommates 10-speed bicycle is turned on end one moved off-campus, and the plus the various suitemates who and used as a coat rack. The bed on fourth, Hossein Kashefipour, still have lived next door. ttI like the the south side has a plain thin lives there. Kashefipour said dorm atmosphere. You get to meet a bedspread, and is still Jonas jokingly, itIonas is a bad guy. lot more people, she said. Foxworthis bed, as it has been for Foxworth also had the room to Living in the same room four four years. himself for two years. years allows a person to see many Ionas Foxworth has lived in Foxworth has thought of moving changes. Foxworth said the biggest Missouri Hall 316 throughout his off-campus, but decided it was too changes he has seen in his college four years at NMSU. ttIt's a good expensive. career have been the changes in iiIf I stay in the same room, he rules and in renlovations. His explained, HI'll always get my mail freshman year t ere was Visitation QOSSLISgEPZESEiMkSESSmg. Eiisgzgffjgggii righteno excuses. only five days a week. The lounges glove and teddy bear around to make her first Another senior, Janet Turner, were not carpeted and were much year away frorn home easier. has lived for four years in plainer. The color television that 21 On Campus