University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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The ASU game. Tradition thicker than Homecoming. Smash the Sun Devils. Burn ASU. Can I use your fees card? I gotta see this one! Bear down, Arizona. Bear down, red and blue. Who cares? It ' s only a game. Yeah. Wait till next year! Basketball season. Swarming into McKale. No way, I gotta study. You? Come on! Colder now. Almost winter. You call this cold? I ' m from Michigan. Two days of classes left. Hit the bars one last time. Listen, if you don ' t come back next semester, I just want you to know . . . it ' s been great. Thanks. Last day of classes. First day of finals. Packing. If I got it all out here why can ' t I get it back? You finished with exams? Let ' s go out. Going home. Coing to California, going to Mexico. One semester down, one to go. Going early. Going late. Gone. 1 UA lost the WAC game against Wyoming by a score of 26-24. 2 The halftime activities included the UA marching band. 3--The UA Alumni Band joined in with the marching band for the halftime show. 4 Natalie Fabric, from Phoenix, was crowned homecoming queen, and a Fiat (5) was given away to a lucky ticket holder during the halftime break. Homecoming festivities mark traditional week As usual, football and fanfare brought homecoming week to a close. The UA ' s bid to stay alive in the WAC championship race fell short when flanker Charles Nash was pulled down on the Wyoming five-yard line as the game ended. WAC champion Wyoming finished on top by a score of 26-24. Half- time brought the crowning of homecoming queen Natalie Fabric, the reunion of four previous UA football teams, and the induction of the first twenty members of the UA Athletic Hall of fame. However, the Homecoming festivities were overshadowed by a tragedy, as the Civil War cannon, traditionally fired to signal UA touchdowns, exploded at the end of the game, injuring five people. The firing of the cannon will probably be discontinued, according to Dean of Students Robert S. Svob. I don ' t think it should be used again, he told the Tucson Daily Citizen. It was a very unfortunate thing. 26

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Fall activities broke the monotony. You going to the game? Who ' s it with this year, anyway? Uh. . .Auburn. Crush Auburn! 31 - 19! All right! Co! Go! Wildcats go, Arizona, bear down! New stadium. 57,000 people. Biggest in the state. October. Hey, I got a letter from Mom and Parents ' Day is next weekend. They ' re coming out! We better get this place cleaned up. Las Vegas Night. Cards, craps, roulette. Incredible luck at the poker table $10,250 in one hour. Play money. Oh, shit. Midterms. Already? I haven ' t gotten the book yet. All-nighters. Unexpected A ' s. Unexpected F ' s and D-slips. Maybe if I go home for the weekend they ' ll forget about it. Don ' t count on it. Let ' s go bar-hopping. Relationships clustering, breaking, re-forming, growing. Waking up with a lover instead of alone. I think I love you. Huh. . . what ' d ya say? Nothing, go back to sleep. A gets the brush; |y Frosh get the splash Whitewashing A Mountain was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Several hundred unsuspecting freshmen were stuffed into buses, cars, and trucks and were hauled up to A mountain, singing a rousing chorus of Bear Down Arizona. Upon their arrival, they tumbled out of the buses and SPLASH! were promptly welcomed with a bucket of whitewash. The whitewash dripped from their hair, soaked their shirts, sopped their jeans, and sloshed through their shoes. Freshmen quickly got into Action and revenge was sweet as they soaked their attackers. It seemed everything on the mountain was white, except the A . The Blue Key announced the A Day queen and ceremoniously crowned her with a pail of the ever-present white stuff. After returning to the University, the freshmen were grabbed, dragged, and thrown into the cool fountains near Old Main. They finally went back to dorms and homes, tired and sopping wet, but looking forward to the first football game of the season that evening against Auburn. IA freshman finds herself trapped by a Sopho and his bucket of white- wash. 2 Spur members Julie Files and Jane McLellan carry on the tra- ditional opening of A-Day activities by burning the A the night before. 3Avoiding whitewash splashes is a common problem for freshmen. 4 Old Main ' s fountain water is too good just to sit in after a day ' s work of whitewashing. 25

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