University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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1980 CACTUS Features 18 Military Athletics 102 Limelight Academics 178 Honoraries Student Leadership 222 Greeks Special Interests 256 Classes Professionals 322 Index 366 392 410 430 546 656 JILL AIMKE BEN Hditor-in-Chief RHONDA GAIL FLOECK Associate Editor MARK JAMES I.ICKI.IDER Copy Editor DOROTHY ANN PRIVETTE Artist JERRY R. THOMPSON Supervisor of Yearbooks RONALD D. HICKS .Assistant Yearbook Supervisor LARRY KOLVOORD Photography Supervisor STEVEN PUMPHREY Assistant Photography Supervisor PHOTOGRAPHERS: Howard Cast It-berry, Ronnie Cortcz, Brad Doherty, Mar- da Ewcll, Xavier Gar a, Terry (ircgston. J. B. Ha lctt, Kwong Hui, Michael Lyon, Ed Maliik. Robert Mihovil, Harley Suites, Jan Sonnenmair, Cireg Vimont, Tim Wentworth.

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m ' Tfcxas: One Wbrd, Many Meanings Texas is .1 myth, or belter vet. a cliche. Who in America hasn ' t seen the Jolm Wayne movies on the late night show and thought. So. this is Texas. Thoughts of Texas conjure up images of dust, cattle, cactus, ten gallon hats and success. But how much of this holds true toil.iv ' Remnants of the Civil War linger on In an age of women ' s liberation. Southern Belles (cf. Farrah Fawcett. Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, etal.) still have their iK .u v Stereotypes abound. The television series l t!U brought .in image of greed and big bucks into the living rooms of Americans. Was JR fact or fic- tion- Texas . ;, was also popularised by the likes of T .v.i Monthly and New York City ' s Lone Star Cafe. Worse yet, age-old Texas kitsch could be found in roadside truck stops and antique stores: armadillo purses, chairs made out of bull horns, 24-carat steers, cowboy boot lamps, horse shoe mailbox posts and snakes- kin belts. Texas is also the land of iron-gut stomachs, as eviden- ced by the tortuous amounts of chili, jalapenos. nachos with red hot sauce and barbeque consumed within its borders. I ' ve lived here all my life, said Ranelle Bain, a junior in an history from Tyler. Texans are riding on tradition. They ' ve always said that Texas is great, so you ' d be stupid to say anything else.