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

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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

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The i.d.'s come in aT The Turn oT The cenTury. you Trade your gravy- splaTTered. chewed-on. whiTe sTub Tor a brighT, shiny, laminaTed idenTi- TicaTion card. buT who's The gimp on mine? This i.d. geTs you pasT The raisin counTer and enTiTles you To a specified number oT meals aT The pTomaine emporium. even Though They wenT up on prices, iT's sTiII The only place you can eaT dirT cheap. Tor The TirsT Time in recenT memory someThing has improved abouT The commons: They've added perma- nenT, chunky snow To Their Tlower- beds-snow which is sysTemaTically scaTTered Trom T-he library To wim- py's. rush comes a week beTore classes sTarT. Tor Those inTeresTed in The greek sysTem, iT's The TirsT adiusT- menT To college social liTe. The end- less chanT: whaT'syourname, where- reyouTrom, whaT'syourmaior? The week resulTs in Tears and laughTer smiles and handshakes, and a room Tul oT new Triends. 30