University of Kentucky - Kentuckian Yearbook (Lexington, KY)

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 Area businesses suffer through the summer, but when students return, the David Smith uses the 24-hour teller supplied on the student center patio by First Security Bank. Three other Lexington banks installed the machines for on-campus use. -Photo by Leslie Fuelling Johnny Print is a major duplicating service bordering campus. Some in- structors use the business as storage for old exams. —Photo by Laura Hubbard 26 Area Merchants Phillips' Market employees Sam and Nick Hazen serve both the faculty and student factions of the University. The family-run business doubles as a grocery and a deli. —Photo by Vicki Turner A hot fudge sundae and a concrete picnic table at McDonald's are two elements ot Eddie Prelaz's September afternoon. McDonald's on Limestone is decorated around a UK sports theme, complete with basketball nets and blue and white seats. —Photo by Vicki Turner

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m Many resisted, but a majority of students found themselves in a Prep Rally Ten years earlier, it was the nickname Ali McGraw gave [Ryan O'Neal in the hit movie Love jStory. But word meanings changed, and so S did fashion. Preppy, therefore, evolved from a fictitious nickname to a i way of life. Way of life or means of entertain- ment, preppy was the style—alligators were removed from the extinct category (Izod logo alligators, that is). Bright colors, tailored clothes, Pap- pagallo shoes and initial pins were a few indicators positively indentifying a prep. For the dedicated. University Bookstore stocked the latest in preppy accessories including preppy hand- books, drinking T-shirts, sweat shirts, shoe strings, stationary and Christmas cards, They're all rather expensive, but it's a fad and students want to be in ’ on it, said Bookstore cashier Tamara Mundy. Head cashier Lucille Pugh added, We sold out of 12 dozen pairs of prep- py shoe strings in four days and would be selling more if we had them. Prep patron and accounting senior Phillip Belcher said, I consider my clothes classic. Preppy is a frame of mind. I have always dressed this way, but I think some people dress like this to feel that they belong. If you have always dressed this way, it's just that you have clothes on. Sarah Barnes classified herself as a preppy most of the time and said she enjoyed clothes and felt it was impor- tant to dress nicely. I don't mind pay- ing extra for something 1 like, but I don't go to too far extremes, she said. I even make fun of people sometimes who wear clashing colors. Kim Wilcher, nutrition and food science freshman, fell in the middle-of- the-road preppy category. Some days I'm preppy but on the average, I don't think I am, she said. I don't think preppies are different, they just have a different style of dress. I respect them (the hard core preps) in a sense if that's how they want to dress. No one should criticize them, but I'd feel uncomfor- table doing it. Fourth-year professor Jeremy Popkin gave The Complete Preppy Mid-Term Exam to his History 105 class, where the first task for comple- tion was to draw an alligator on your blue book. He said he liked students to loosen up before beginning exams although he did not always succeed. I was disappointed in the quality of the alligators. A dedicated prep should do better, he said. On prep overall, Popkin said, I try to find it amusing. I'm not against it, I just don't participate. They've bought into an image of what life should be like. Being a student was more stimulating when we wore T-shirts and dirty blue jeans. I never felt I wanted to achieve a style that consisted of look- ing like everyone else, and on a pro- fessor's salary, I can't afford it anyway. In the final classification came the anti-prep. I think it is vanity, said Tim Mallard, a music senior. It's silly to consider yourself like a group because of the way you dress. It is trouble for no reason. There are more important things. While ushering for the 1981 Greek Sing in UK's Center for the Fine Arts, senior Carmen Geraci noted, It was raining and 4,000 people came in wear- ing the same thing. The conformity is the thing I don't like. There were green slickers and alligators everywhere, he said. I almost lost it. —Vicki Turner Prep Controversy

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ringe Benefits enjamin Franklin contended there were only two cer- 1 tainties in life: Death and taxes. At college level, owever, there were three: Death, taxes and heavy traffic as students returned to Lexington. As 23,000 people flocked to campus en masse, the impact m the surrounding area could hardly go unnoticed: Traffic m Nicholasville Road slowed to a crawling pace; driving town Limestone was hazardous to an unknown number of ack-toting students; and businesses close to campus thrived. Surrounded by shopping and entertainment areas, students :ould select from a wide range of goods that were within talking distance. Areas consisted of the shops on Limestone Torn First Security to Joe Bologna's and the plaza on the cor- ler of Rose and Euclid—including Euclid Avenue. John Owens, Burger Chef manager, said nearly 70 percent of his business came from students. All this starts the week before school when the fraternities and sororities come back for rush, he said. Owens estimated nearly 200 people eat lunch at the establishment, a high percentage of them students. Several students stop for a bite of breakfast before class, he said. Cut Corner Record Shop offered musical entertainment. According to Greg Gabbard, manager of the shop, several hundred students come into the store daily, and about 80 per- cent of my customers are students who basically listen to rock, although new wave is beginning to take its hold,” Gab- bard said. He estimated business dropped 30 percent when