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

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Library varies for student’s use Calvin T. Ryan Library is the home of reference books, magazine files, classical literature and college students looking for a date, a party, or someone to tell their troubles to. How can such a small building make accom- modations for all of these things? It’s easy when 24 hours are divided into two sec- tions. During the day the library is a pretty good place to study for exams, research a term paper, or read. But, watch out when the sun goes down and the stars begin to shine! Students flock from all over town to the library to en- joy a little socialization, flirta- tion, and lots of talk. Things really move. But a few students get the schedule mixed up and try to go to the library at night to do their work. They get pushed back into some small booth over on the sides of the room where they must try to think above the noise. That’s what they get for trying to crash the party. 26

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KSC daytime sport is ‘unionizing’ “Unionizing” is a great sport at KSC when daylight hours do not prove conducive to the Play Pen or Fireside Inn. In the winter, students breeze into the union with red noses, frozen fingers and wet feet to brace up with a good shot of hot coffee or cocoa. There are the inevitable card games throughout the day, while the Greeks cluster in the booths to discuss their respective activities. During spring term or summer school, the union combats the heat waves by turning up the air conditioning . . . and up . . . and up. Perhaps no other building on campus reflects the diversi- ty of life patterns and attitudes as the union does. Here peo- ple flirt, study, organize ac- tivities, listen to music and communicate—some better than others. It is as if some great, huge being had taken a microscope and put the people onto a slide for observation. Here he can minutely study their behavior, relationships, and daily com- ings and goings as many threads of life touch, in- tertwine, split and come apart.

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Sulfa cures ails Whether you have a terrible cold or a sprained ankle from falling in a hole in the street, Student Health always comes to the rescue. Whether you have the flu or a plugged up ear you can be sure that those little orange and white pills — the wonder drug called sulfa — will be the redeeming cure. As you fall in the door gagg- ing for breath and ready to faint, you can count a pleasant “hello, please sign your name and social security number” and “what seems to be your problem?” The doctors take time out from their busy community commitments at the clinic to make sure students don’t get trapped by mononucleosis nervous breakdowns, and ul- cers. They all do their best to help the sickly as well as the ordinary hypochondriac. 27