University of Nebraska Kearney - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Kearney, NE)

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Night clubs are gathering spot Although concerts, festivals, and first-rate entertainment are rare in Kearney, the night clubs seem to hit the spot throughout the seasons. Fireside Inn, Continental Club, Playpen Lounge, Backlot, Palm Gardens, and Cherokee Palace seem to draw the students on school nights and weekends. The polkas in Playpen, shuffleboard at Cherokee Palace, and being roped off at Fireside are all popular KSC pastimes. Of course, theatre produc- tions, frequent good movies at the Student Union and down- town theatres, and the arrival of a new coffee house “The Thirsty Ear”, broaden the entertainment perspective. The bars, however, seem to be the light the moths fly into.

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Students work to pay tuition Working students appear everywhere on campus in all work capacities. Students on work-study are employed at Slater’s cafeteria, day care centers, the student union, and doing desk work. Many students work at downtown businesses, bars and offices. Hospital work, construction, selling, plumbing, typing, and clerking give KSC students the means to pay rent and tuition. Married students who work make up a large percentage of the college work force. Especially frequent is the working wife who is putting her husband through school. Many married students ad- mit that work, marriage and school are a troublesome combination, but few would change their lives.