University of Colorado - Coloradan Yearbook (Boulder, CO)

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fee Yes, there's never a dull moment in Boulder. Just follow the bouncing bong to the teenage ideolist's vision of college life and the best of the West on weekends, where food stamps are a convenience rather than a necessity and the snow never sticks. Just remember, you're here to be educated and not in the finer points of rozor-blode finesse. No? Fake it. Books should be dusted twice a semester to maintain that scholastic demeanor, and classes attended when it's too windy to toss Frisbees 0t prospective pickups sitting innocently on the lawn, ftwell, excuuuuuuse me J. Extensive lying to your parents then becomes on cart form, especially the classic dioling-for-dollors call and the popular Dad, I dropped all my classes on the day after the deadline discussion. Collect, of course. It's an acquired sense of the absurd that distinguishes Boulder from the rest of the world, sorta like life in the Ieft-turn-only lone without 0 signal. We're all bozos in this burg, but if we acted mature, they'd take our childish complaints seriously and make a concerted attempt to prepare us for the real world. No fun. I'd rather stay in our scenic sand box, leaving adulthood to the Denver commuters. Everyone sing along, Oh, home and deranged. .

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ihg resulted fro 9 University cam . Foil class registration screw up and the enjoyment ievei peaked When 8000 John Belushi took olikes converged on Belch Fieidhouse fer a Togo Party ipictured beiowl A greek party revival might have been spawned by the movie Animal House. but the close proximity of a nuclear trigger plant evoked numerous crowds at Rocky Hats iopposite page; I Conairoe Concmoe Ne Awakening? by irene Middieman spired upsurge in social awareness or what some coiled activism. Most certainly, the 1978- 79 school year at CU was anything but ordinary. year old CU Computer system ovetiooded, causing some 4,000 students to be closed out of required courses. Most students seemed to wet- come the ch00 due to the tweedoye t . ' ty Cfficiois, oh 7 reacted qu ferentiy Administrators had been pleading with the Colorado State Legisioture for years to no q qii to expand the computer system. cin form processing everItucIiiy costing he Uni- versity o totoi of $3500. Finally, the state isloturejha uncharact stic mo foui- -ups tong forgotten and students weIe book into their ordinciry autumn ittewstyies conStsting of CU party folklore. it all started with a movie coiled Animal House, on extremeiy popular portrayal TogoI Party, given as a port of the 4978 version of the troditionci Homecoming festivities. Eighty kegs of beer were slashed down by 8 000 ,' gin bed-s eets exotudmg the few hundred party poopers who arrivedsIn street clothes. Yes, sororities, fraternities, Homecoming, and college craziness were the vogue once more and such frothy, frivolous fun was what the To a Party QT C was oli qbout -