University of Nevada - Artemisia Yearbook (Reno, NV)

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BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS ASUN hosts several activities for students each year. These include such popular events as the Sunday night movie series and ASUN concerts. But some even more popular activities, based on the number of students who participated, were the ASUN all- school picnics. ASUN sponsors three or four picnics each year. Usually major weeks, like Homecoming, Winter Carnival, and Mackay Week, include an all-school picnic. Often ASUN also hosts one for itself — just for fun. The menu has ranged from steak and Lowenbrau to barbequed chicken and coca-cola. The picnics have also featured entertainers. At most of the picnics entertainment has been provided by local bands with a range in music from bluegrass to country, new wave, and rock ' n ' roll. The all-school pic- nics have been quite popular with students — the price is always reasonable (sometimes free), and there is no dress code — many people lounge around in swimsuits and cutoffs just enjoying the music and sunny weather, and picnickers can eat as much as they want. The ASUN sponsored picnics have become a school tradition, pro- viding a nice transition from the lazy days of summer to the more hectic days of fall. We the students start our year in fine style, for ASUN provides a breakfast of champions. On any sunny day, no matter how cold, about a dozen sun worshippers can be found sprawled in Manzanita bowl. A few will have radios or tape decks with them — turned up for all to enjoy, and usually several show up with a couple of six packs, a frisbee, and man ' s best friend. These same twelve or so individualists start brav- ing the chill air in late March to be sure to get a good start on their summer tans, before their skiing tans start to fade. Only the last snows of winter drive them indoors again. Many fellow students join them during the warm summer months, but the real shock to their systems are ASUN ' s all-school picnics. About three or four times each year trucks from Buildings Groups roll up and set up two or three barbeques and a couple dozen tables. Soon after ASUN officers roll up with boxes and boxes of meat, salad, and chips, closely followed by the coca-cola distributor. It is only when the beer truck arrives that they begin to admit that maybe, just for a day, this invasion could be tolerated, the next morning after hun- dreds of cups and plates have been cleaned up, their sanctuary is again as it should be — relatively clean, quiet, and empty.