University of Idaho - Gem of the Mountains Yearbook (Moscow, ID)

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N ervous about the Nineties The Eighties are officially over, in spite of the date on the calendar. As the decade and the eighteen- month-long Centennial Celebration wound down to a close, UI students had no choice but to look cau- tiously into the future. Students young and old worried whether we would ever find a new University President, but when we found Elisabeth Zinser there were no doubts that we'd like her. News of possible fee increases made us uneasy, wondering whether we'd be back in the nineties if we had to pay much more. We were all nervous about the food service changes, both on and off-campus students, and news of a score of 78 on a health inspection didn't ease the stress. Architecture students were concerned about the designs for the new bookstore, and the rest of us were concemed about the lack of convenient park- ing near the SUB that the building would create. Meanwhile, seniors worried about finding the right job and where they would be working in the nineties. When it came right down to it, the best medicine to soothe our nerves and answer the troubling ques- tions of the year wasn’t a roommate, parent or counselor, the answers were in the Argonaut’s Ask Lois column, which leads to the question: Should we be Nervous about the Nineties? Opening 3

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| Avampishile ' ‘i Ai, While registration made freshmen nervous, Sraduation had the same queasy effect on seniors, but in between comes the question of night life. Those who barely missed the April 10, 1968 srand- father clause cut-off no longer had to worry about entering a Moscow bar, as the one year, 364 day wait for legality was finally Over. Meanwhile, Moscow's lounges had to adjust their sales pitches to attract the dwindling number of stu- dents after the drinking age was raised from 19 to 21. Murdoc's got a $100,000 liquor license and a beach, Ratz allowed 18 year old's to enter but not drink, while older students mourned the anniver- sary of the closing of Morts, the Spruce, and the Mirage. Students also found other types of entertainment, from weekly showings of one dollar movies in the Borah Theater to Campus events such as Borah Symposium, Mardi Gras and the Lionel Hamp- ton Chevron Jazz Festival. Students took advantage of Outdoor Programs, KUOI events, One More Time Productions, the @ parade on the’ Micro, Blue Monday, Second City show, Theater idee dub. department productions, intramural sports, and ing of their spare time, a few did homework. he ‘Vandal Cheerleaders Kua e boty rf Campus Life Divider 5