Truman State University - Echo Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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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

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dupiu...;w.am. ,,.'J , ,. .. ,. was added to the lounge last semester has been promised since Foxworth was vice president of the hall council as a sophomore. Other renovations, such as the study lounges, took a couple of years to be realized, he said. During his four years, Foxworth has seen numerous water fights. FtIn the spring, you learn to look up before going outside because someone may dump a bucket of water on you, he saidJ Other pranks he has witnessed include the old shaving cream under the door trick and putting someone's hand in a bucket of warm water while he sleeps. Foxworth claimed he never took part in any of these pranks, but only watched. ltI always thought it was very childish, he said with a grin. 22 On Campus Crossing paths on the steps in front of Centennial Hall, Alpha Phi Alpha Tony Ford stops to discuss a few thing with little sis Iackie Iames, an Alpha Angel. Turner related her funniest story in her years in the same room. She was in her suitemate's room when she told the suitemate that she had to go to the bathroom. She began talking again, however, and did not get up immediately. Just as she finally rose to get up, they heard a loud crash in the bathroom. When they investigated, they found the ceiling over the toilet had collapsed and Turner had narrowly missed injury in a freak accident. Foxworth has spent a lot of time in room 316, but that will soon end. uOne thing about it: being in the same room for four years, there cant be any excuses about someone not being able to get in contact with you, he said. There are no posters on the walls of Missouri Hall 316 VI didnlt put any upfi Foxworth explained, ttbecause you just have to take them back down. l and the plain yellow walls are not particularly attractive. There is no special quality that stands out about the. room, at least not to the untrained eye. Yet, to anyone who has been around a few years, the room has a certain image. It is Ionas Foxworthls room. -Les Dunseith