University of Southern Mississippi - Southerner Yearbook (Hattiesburg, MS)

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ma souThern hall has been here Tor- 'er-The adminisTraTion b'Id'g al- osT ThaT long. mississippi, TorresT :unTy, and haTTiesburg halls are ald up by a bunk in each corner id a loT oT masking Tape ThaT's noT pposed To be on The walls. The 1diTorium guards The rock. you've ever seen The rock? wsh is modern: ie oTher buildings span a 2,000 ear gap oT archiTecTural design, ccepT Tor easT hall and house g. reTurning sTudenTs accepTed These rings. Treshman adapTed or wenT n sTaTe. The moss on The air condiTioner on The adminisTraTion building was sTill There: The sTreeT in TronT oT The hub was noT. an exclusive loT menl women's club was planTed in The parking loT behind panhellenic. and To Take iTs place, a new parking loT, which Took longer To build Than a dormiTory, Tilled in behind The li- brary. new and old merged and seasoned souTherners waTched The Treshmen sorT Their values and choose Their paThs. we reTurned To The old and saw The new, and Tried To disTinguish which was which. 27 bn Z -b.-- .is

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you can always recognize a fresh- man: he has no hair. fhis year fhere were no freshmen, iusf new faces . . . puzzled faces. and everyday fhaf you're on fhis campus, you will see a face or fwo you've never seen be- fore. everybody has fo move in. no maffer how you punch fhe buffon. fhe elevafor never comes back. af fhe men's dorms, any way you look af if, fhe room is sfill fhree flighfs up. once all fhe iunk is in, if fakes af leasf fhrough fall quarfer fo evolve a room. freshmen learn quickly. fhey ab- sorb a fremendous dief of facfs. in addifion fo fheir regular course load. one musf masfer a sfudenf number. a course schedule. a sef of direcfions fo fhe pifs, fhe deafh-frap infersec- fion af hardy and 49, and commons food. once orienfed, fhe search for your advisor. surely a phanfom. be- gins. wifh fhe perfecf schedule in hand, we waif in fhe firsf of many lines. fhere's a line for hisf IOI, one for mafh IOO, and fwo lines for eng- lish IOI. buf you are fhe one fhaf musf have fhe besf line in order fo pull a card for a class fhaf is already closed. keep your orange cards. affer being . . . hung down. brung down, hung up and all kinds of mean. nasfy, ugly fhings . . . , when you're looking and feeling your besf and leff defenseless, fhey fake your money and your picfure. you leave, fhankful fhaf you're able fo eaf lunch once a week. and a liffle bif leery of dr. sfaff. rain and umbrellas. p.o. box combinafion, lines af fhe book- sfore, wrifing checks and 8:00 classes musf all be broughf info con- sciousness. 28