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

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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

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For many students, the lines, the closed classes and the lost cards make registra- tion a time of frustration. It is a good time for others—seeing friends they have missed all semester and getting the right classes under the instructor everyone says is a cinch. “All my classes are between 10 and 1. Friday afternoons, watch out!” “I’ll still be trying to convince them I’m a senior, not a freshman by the last Friday in April.” Tears and rejoicing are the opposing emotions of the ordeal. The administration appears to have chosen mid-year registration to prepare students for the anxieties of the final week that no one told the instructors had been abolished. Classes set up at registration 29