University of Nebraska Omaha - Tomahawk / Gateway Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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C) joined the circus. Those who were attached by the wrists to the pinball machines followed them into the game room. But many of the patrons made the big step across the hall to the coffeehouse, where they were immediately offended by the Greek signs. Between the coffeehouse and the game room is the information desk, also known as the last place to go for information. Clustered around the desk are jostling groups of blacks, leaning in accute observation of passing girls who return the attention— maybe. Raucous laughter, good-natured put downs, coming on and getting off on the atmosphere, they begin to fade away at mid-afternoon, when students turn into people. Upstairs, the Ballroom, called Napalm Hall back in the days when we thought about napalm, is quieter. Bootstrappers reading, girls sitting in muffled conversation, the Ballroom ' s only activity occurs during speeches, panel discussions or art sales. The rest of the time, one feels guilty making the unnerving noise of footsteps, as the studious gaze at passersby on their way to the cafeteria. Ah, the cafeteria, where people of all social persuasions gather, spurned by a common lust for food. People can actually sit alone in the cafeteria without fear of being persecuted as heretics. If you try everywhere else in the Student Center and you just don ' t fit, sooner or later you will find yourself in the cafeteria, staring at a salt-covered table and trying not to smell the food. There are other gathering places. Sparsely filled study rooms line the third floor hall. The area outside the Center is, on warm days, lined with students; on cold days, it is deserted. Comfort always prevails. The bookstore, or the masked marauders, attracts people for five minute intervals. In otherwords, as long as it takes to buy a blue book or a pack of Marlboros.

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