University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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IT'S HARD to imagine how Keld Bangsberg. on the left, and Harold O’Poskanzer, on the right, can look so relaxed in their McCarty Hall room. Its decor seems more suitable for a disco than its intended purpose — a bedroom. Glenn Mar photo COLORFUL STREAMERS drapo from one end of the ceiling directly across to the other end. Their hues are made even more brilliant by the addition of a black light. Glenn Mar photo LOOKING MORE LIKE A GUARDIAN ANGEL with a rose in hand and a halo surrounding his head, this fluorescent skeleton observes all activity that goes on from overhead. Glenn Mar photo 13 rooms

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Interior =1 Design 101 Rooms that made the grade Last September, like clockwork, something happened here at the University of Washington. What was formerly a tranquil, half-empty campus for the last three months became a bustling center of commotion as thousands of students migrated to the dorms and Greek Row to fill the empty cubicles that they were to call home for the next nine months. To make these rooms, which more closely resembled hospital wards than bedrooms, more liveable was a chore that most students performed with gusto. Plants, posters, stereos, TVs, personal computers and pictures were all brought from home to give each room that personal touch. Luke Maverman of Haggett Hall brought his waterbed and plants, along with his antique radio and typewriter, to give his room, as he put it, a “kind of homey feeling. But former Husky center Blair Bush, now a Seattle Seahawk, certainly didn’t have a homey feeling in mind when he designed Lambda Chi fraternity's Black Velvet Room. The guys from Lambda Chi described the BV room as being an institution within an institution, worthy of being deemed one of the most elegant rooms on campus, unsurpassed in comfort and tradition. Of course, each room was as different as the person(s) who lived there. Quite a contrast to Luke’s and the BV room was the Neon Room belonging to Harold O'Poskanzer and Keld Bangsberg of McCarty Hall. Filled from floor to ceiling with neon and glow-in-the-dark objects this room, as Harold aptly put it, must be experienced in person for the full effect!!!” Whether it took two hours or two months to decorate these rooms, one thing was certain. By the end of spring quarter posters came off the walls, holes were filled with putty, clothes were packed, plants and other belongings filled boxes, walls were repainted just to return the room to its original condition, that of a cubicle. Once everything was packed, sent home, unpacked, and put in its proper place another thing was certain. It would be time to pack it all up and do it all over again. By Nina G. Melencio LUKE MAVERMAN combines plants, flags, an antique radio and typewriter and his waterbed to create a relaxing atmosphere in which to study. Glenn Mar photo FANATICS for Coke. cars, and comely women, Mike Egan, on the left, and Al Owens, on the right, of Haggett Hall express their fanaticism with their many provocative posters and collection ofpop cans. Joseph W. Edgell. Jr. photo THEY DONT HAVE TO GO FAR to find a bottle in Lambda Chi's notorious Black Velvet room. Joseph W. Edgell. Jr. photo 12 rooms

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 MARY JANE abacs were all the cwnfoccable rage in the Ucc 70's, m %«c tolled up pants uifft. Photocturtuy (JVC'hrforn iti m Stnucj THE EARLY 70s college student dressed very cmully, jeans being a major part of one's wardrobe. Photo (cxrltiy U W Information Stn-isri DISCO. DISCO, disco Young people began to enjoy dressing up more in the Lire 70 s in oedtt lo be noticed on rhe ilance floor. Art iy Cjt Yes, they really dressed that way f the U.S.' changing mainstreams, the one that changes most often is fashion. Over the last 15 years, American fashion, the bastion of nearly every college student's life, has gone from bold to subtle and back to bold, undergoing streamlining in the process. Seventies fashion is a large part of that process and it is none too fondly looked upon today. Hairs stand on end as one recalls polyester leisure suits. Or shirt lapels and neckties wide enough to drive a truck across and garish designs loud enough to hear. Says one UW student, '70s fashion is history that ought to be obliterated. Perhaps, but the look was as entirely acceptable then as are today's fashions. For a hot date, a male might outfit himself in a turtle neck sweater and bell-bottoms slacks secured with a wide belt, top it all off with a wide-lapclled leather sports jacket and trim his sideburns to complete the look. His date might have donned a boldly patterned mini-dress, knotted a scarf around her neck, made up her face to achieve the natural look, and brushed her long, straight, past-the-shoulders hair a hundred strokes. From the mid-to-late-’70s, bell-bottoms narrowed into widc-leg” pants and the chunky platform shoes melted into wedgies and the popular Famolares (Get-Theres, Hi Thercs and I.o-Thcrcs), the shoes with four waves designed into the soles. Huge Afro hairstyles were statements of black pride as well as fashion. Many non-blacks in the late 70s liked the Afro look and promptly had their locks frizzed. Disco rounded out the 70s where getting down on the dance floor placed a greater focus on dressing up. Males who didn't go for the Afro look feathered their hair back; the ladies fell for the flipped-back styles of ice skater Dorothy Hamill and Charlie's Angels star Farrah Fawcett-Majors. Once the newly mandatory blow dryers and curling irons did their jobs, the males donned their silk-look polyester disco shirts, gold chain necklaces glinting underneath. The females wore bclow-the-knee dresses and skirts, tottered about in platform heel sandals and shined their lips with the newest in beauty innovations. Kissing Potion lip gloss. The '80s began conservatively — garish prints gave way to solid colors. Lapels and collars retracted from their broad expanses and wide-Ieg pants streamlined into baggy pants and straight legs. Levis, penny loafers, short hairstyles, Izod shins and pullover sweaters defined the neat, conservative preppy” look of an Ivy Leaguer. Ladies shoes softened into flats and sleek, slender pumps. Now, in the mid-'80s, anything goes, said Cheryl Clayborn, manager of Jay FASHION HAS UNDERGONE A GRADUAL STREAMLINING IN THE PAST 15 YEARS Jacobs on University Way. Everything is appropriate. There is no defined fashion trend. Indeed, it is a combination of vastly different styles. Punk rockers and new wavers have influenced current fashion. MTV stars now glamorize styles once sorely out of the norm. Asymetrical hairstyles and hair streaked with colors other than brown, silver or blonde, arc in. Bold is back, with bright graphics splashed across oversized shirts and sweaters over ladies’ stirrup pants and men’s bermuda shorts. Soft pastels aren't just for women but look fine on men as well; men now take a greater interest in fashionable appearances than ever before. Natural fabrics such as cotton arc in; polyester is out. And if history does repeat itself, fashion is no exception. Today's mini-skirts hark from the early 70s, the snug-fitting cropped pants from the '50s and paisley prints from the '60s. What was hip in the 70s is gross today; what is chic today may be cause for social ostracism in the next decade. Yet fashions of old reappear in the new, embraced as readily by the college student now as they were then. Fashion: it’s unpredictable, contradictory and changeable ... but what college student culd ever live without it? 1 1 by Bcatriz Pascual