Truman State University - Echo Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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AN ECONOMIC SURVIVAL TEST keeps Wes Hines, sophomore, out of bed until 1 a.m. Hines was probably expecting a B. He occasionally stays up all night for midterms and finals. ■■MM THREE NIGHTS A WEEK freshman Don Musick A TRIBUTE to Lillian Carter for Organizational pulls an all-nighter. But his Statistics in Human and Professional Communications gets polishing Behavior test only requires a 2:30 a.m. session in touches as junior Brenda Uhlmeyer tackles a Missouri Hall study lounge. homework late-night in Pickier Memorial Library. 11 All-nighters

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WastecI dAys ANd sleepless NiqhTS 7-10 p.m.: Basketball game, movies, a card game or a chat with a friend down the hall. 10-11 p.m.: Cet something to eat, settle down on the bed with books on all sides. Get back up for a pen. Settle down and find the right page. Get back up for something to drink. 12 to 1 a.m.: Read 15 minutes, stare at a sleeping roommate for 15 minutes. Get up and go to the bathroom. Put on pajamas. Read for 15 more minutes, flip through the book to see how many pages are left to read. So goes the all-nighter. It usually starts when there is a particularly appealing activity that evening, and everyone else is going. Sophomore Tim Grim said, “I did an all-nighter once the night before two tests. I had to eat a half-bottle of Vivarins to stay up and drank several cups of coffee. That's called waiting till the last minute. The reason I had to stay up was because I got a late start. I went to the show during the evening. I guess I should have stayed home and studied. But there are a rare few who make staying up all night a habit. Tom Vespa, sophomore, has spent many a long night hitting the books. He says he has developed a system for keeping awake. I've grown very professional at cramming. I've refined it until it's become like a tool in my hand. When I catch myself falling to sleep, I get up and walk around. I remind myself if I fall asleep I'll flunk out of school and be a skid row bum. I fix things like hot tea sometimes, or if I really get desperate, I go to sleep for one hour and set my alarm to get up, Vespa said. Then I pop another No-Doz and am bright-eyed and bushy-tailed for 10 All-nighters another hour or two. I don't like to take too many of those, though. I cut their dosage to about half of what they say. Sometimes I talk to myself. I just try to convince myself by listening to my own voice telling me that I'm not going to go to sleep. When I really, really get desperate, I jump in the shower, Vespa said. Brian Schulte, sophomore, does not try pulling all-nighters too often because he falls asleep with the book in his hand. I take my book to bed with the light on, thinking I can study better if I am comfortable. Pretty soon I fall asleep and then wake up two hours later. Then I slap myself in the face to try and stay awake, but pretty soon I fall asleep for another two hours or so, Schulte said. Before I know it, I wake up and it's morning. The light is still burning and my book is still only opened to the first page of notes. Staying up at night sometimes has its advantages. Freshman Mike Martin said, It's the only time around this place when it's quiet. I put headphones on to help me stay awake. It's usually to work on papers that were assigned at the beginning of the semester that you have two days (left) to do. Some students work better under group study conditions where everyone can help keep each other awake. I get about five or six guys together, and we stay up having tea or hot chocolate. We study until about four o'clock and then go to Country Kitchen and grab an egg special, junior Stan Volk said. I stay up about once a week playing cards, said junior Mike Beckman. There's nothing better to do. Basically our all-nighters are with the same group of people every week. It's great fun. It's also a good way to get to know people. Sophomore Gary Behner and senior Errol Spratt have a similar reason for being night owls — playing a war game called The Russian Campaign. Although they say it obviously cannot be done too often, they enjoy their occasional all-night games. Whether it is watching Fred Astaire and Judy Garland tap their way into the wee hours of the morning, conquering Russia with cardboard troops or committing the formula for vector analysis to memory, somewhere, some night, the average student will find himself passing the night sleeplessly. Breakfasttime rolls around, and all of his friends hear about how he spent the whole night without sleep. There is little pity for him; only more stories of other nights spent studying, playing cards, partying . . . — Lisa Garrison THE LIBRARY CLOSES at midnight, so Denise Short, junior, saves her all-nighter for the next night. However, a Latin American midterm keeps her in Pickier Memorial Library until closing time.

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r Eventful Summer days Movies, intramural volleyball, fire damage, and visits from a magician, a Taiwanese leader and a Ku Klux Klansman: and they say nothing ever happens in Kirksville during the summer! Fires rage In June and July, of 1979, two separate fires destroyed part of the post office on Jefferson Street and all of Esterline Motors on Franklin and Illinois Streets. Operations at the post office were not greatly affected, post office officials said, but box patrons were somewhat inconvenienced. Repairs were underway when fall students returned. In the Esterline fire, arson was suspected but never proven. Business was conducted from house trailers parked on the sales lots after the showroom building burned. KKK visit The grand titan of the Kirksville area Ku Klux Klan caused quite a controversy on campus when he accepted an offer to speak to students in Harold Eastman's Intergroup IN BEFORE AND AFTER shots, a truck is crushed under the tremendous weight of a fallen brick wall during the Esterline Motors fire in July. Firefighters arrived on the scene about a half an hour after the blaze began, but their efforts proved unsuccessful — the building was destroyed. The company continued to conduct business on outdoor lots afterward. Relations class on July 2. Eastman, professor of sociology, monitored the questions asked of KKK leader Joe Shatlo to avoid disruptions in learning about Klan procedures. To argue with his feelings about Jews and blacks would have been a fruitless waste of time, Eastman said. A special Fourth of July concert was put on by the Fine Arts Division. The concert was modeled after the traditional one given at the River Charles by the Boston Pops Orchestra. A number of students worked with professional actors in presenting six plays at the Hannibal Ice House Theatre. The annual summer theater is jointly sponsored by NMSU, the Hannibal Foundation and the Hannibal Chamber of Commerce with assistance from the Missouri Council on the Arts. A POST OFFICE BOX PATRON goes aboul her normal business while the aftermath of the fire looms above her — a bizzare contrast of the preserved and destroyed. DURING HIS CONTROVERSIAL summer visit, Ku Klux Klansman Joe Shatto fields questions from the audience. His speech on campus produced some hostile reactions. V 12 Summer