Truman State University - Echo Yearbook (Kirksville, MO)

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CURRENT EVENTS on campus catch the eye of junior Matt Wood as he pauses in Missouri Hall to scan the Index for items of interest. OBLIVIOUS to the new brickwork and sculpture, freshman Shari Bybce takes ad- vantage of the sunshine to stretch out and read. TIME OUT for a talk gives Delta Sigma Pi members senior Mary Monzyk and sophomore Rob Hultz a chance to meet in Violette Hall’s courtyard. FREE TIME in their class schedules gives junior John Thicband. freshman Matuu Matuu and sophomore Eunice Perry a chance to talk. The one to watch Opening 5

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V- lowly, but with in- creasing assurance, we began learning how to work with the system and how to make it better. We voted in elections. We per- suaded the administration that the food service need- ed serious reevaluation. And we continued observing our surroun- dings as we strove to im- prove them. Even if we did not always see the widest scope, we became aware of its ramifications. Those unfamiliar with the term “value-added” began to feel its effects as higher grades became harder to attain. The result was a na- tional award for innova- tion in education from the Association for the Ad- vancement of State Col- leges and Universities. Those who had not heard about the extremes of weather in Northeast Missouri first found themselves desperately searching for some semblance of a breeze throughout the record- breaking summer heat. And just as the outdoors became palatable, we found ourselves wonder- ing which box held winter clothes when temperatures plunged beyond the boundaries of withstandable cold. Quadrangle and a tree-trunk backrest a pleasant place to read and study on a warm day. lx Monop The one to watch Opening

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O ome of what we saw was beyond our im- mediate reach. We were horrified to hear of the in- tentional downing of a Korean airliner and the suicide bombing of the peacekeepers in Lebanon. But shock hit closer to home when a male stu- dent mysteriously slipped into a coma in Violette Hall, spurring the com- munity to respond with generosity. We wondered if we would see what others ex- pected to. In the year of Big Brother and his om- niscient eye. we learned a foolproof way to study for a comprehensive final, asked the person with the great smile for a Friday night date and maybe even got a part-time job. all without having to look over our shoulders. We lived in fear, not of government surveillance, but of getting the proper classes and getting up in time to eat breakfast. Some events were on too divergent and massive a scale for us to com- prehend. Others were too immediate in time and vicinity to ignore. The composite of events and individuals set us, as an entity, apart as THE ONE TO WATCH. PLEDGE BOOKS gripped tight- ly, freshmen Cindy Larrabec, Jeanne Korman and Jana Knudsen ask senior Tom Ricks for his signature. IN STEP. Jim Garrison (fr). Ray Alford (so), Julie Velhl (sr). Mlt- zic Mitchcl (sr). and Tina Deutschle (fr) march in the Homecoming parade. Kevin Smith