University of Wisconsin River Falls - Meletean Yearbook (River Falls, WI)

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A day for toil, An hour for sport

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Late in the evening and early in the morning, all paths lead to and from the dorms. The assumption by outsiders that dormitories are for sleeping and studying meets with pitying amusement from the students. To them, the dorm is a way of life. In the residence halls scattered around the perimeter of the River Falls campus, students form life-long friendships, discuss and solve the world's problems, broaden their outlooks by contact with other customs and viewpoints. Over boxes from home, bull sessions and gab fests cover myriad topics, from dotes to deities. Good natured horseplay relieves muscles cramped from long hours in classroom, laboratory or library. The all-important telephone rings and rings. Each night at the signing-in hour, the women's dorms are stampeded with students returning from dates, concerts, the library, the big game—rushing to meet the deadline. At Christmas time the dorms blaze with lights as dorm vies with dorm, corridor with corridor, room with room, to win the honor of best decorated. Parties and open house receptions fill the week before the students depart for home and two weeks of vacation. These things the student remembers, tending to take for granted the necessary duties: cramming for a midquarter or final, typing a term paper, writing home, keeping one's personal belongings in order. Paths to learning lead also to the dorms.

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On many campuses it is known as the gym but at River Falk the students say they are going over to Karges ' Karges Physical Education and Recreation Center can be reached by many paths—by cutting through the Student Center, by taking a shortcut across campus from the dorms to the rear entrance. But the best way to enter Karges is through the front door, pausing to look up at the north outside wall, adorned with the giant bronze Falcon that is a symbol of the University. Once inside, the student may attend a physical education lecture or a laboratory class in golf, swimming, bowling, archery, tumbling, fencing, or any number of team or individual sports. He may attend or participate in a swimming meet, a basketball game, a wrestling match. He may watch the football squad loping off to the practice field or limping back again. In the gymnasium he may mingle with crowds too big for the regular auditorium, to hear such famous speakers as Vance Packard or Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., or such musical programs as a concert by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. And the goal he has been working toward will be reached when, in mortarboard and gown, he joins a processional to Karges and marches across the stage to receive his diploma.