University of Tennessee Knoxville - Volunteer Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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b b This section is supposed to represent the typical UTstudent'. Unfortunately, as I discovered only too frequently this year, the typical UTstudent is not nearly as typical as once could hope. Therefore, in the next few pages we have only been able to touch on a few points that we consider representative of the entire UT community. If you don,t find yourself represented somewhere within the next few pages, I suggest you try out for next yearhs staff. The Volunteer is always look- ing for the unusual. Finally, I would like to thank all those who sustained me through this year. Thanks to the photographers and espe- cially Ron Harr for taking desperately needed but indescribablepictures. Thanks also go to Nell and Sybil for listening to my complaints and offering many new ideas. Most of all, thanks to Jon Perry and Linda Gabbard for helping me retain my sanity. T0 next yearis editor I leave a box of dummy layout sheets and a mana- gerie of emotions. Emeugspeeirimg HmEEEeGee $mlal lite M m mmme Beeiwem Aeemmme Edmwle mire Ehoaetmg a Mifeeirggle MmeevgsEirgg $ewieee Mm Fomiidlalble Eeeeire m Eaet Footie by Sybil Thurman When the dlagfe mm Ee womem by Jon Perry Linda Rader Flue Mme Umlemmme by Sybil Thurman Bveehewg Bweahemm by Steven Wyatt WEE Bueee $hetehaewm: Meeaehlem air MeehEemma? by Steven Wyatt A Faueln at When by Linda Rader Fweweltmg the EM Wane mm 15

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UNSUSPEC XX X32 ft Lt l3 INITIATES The freshman vs. UT The Exorcist drew a crowd; mul- titudes thronged to see Jaws. The presence of a large disorganized group seems to herald a spectacle of disaster, suffering, and degradation. That being the case, incoming students should have been psychologically prepared for orientation. UT's new freshmen, arriving with feelings of anxiety, hopelessness, and foreboding, discovered that all of the upperclassmen felt the same way. Thus, many of these new students quickly ascertained that the only difference be- tween them and those notorious up- perclassmen was that the oldsters had learned to hide their feelings of com- plete mystification. This idea was often substantiated when, upon asking a junior about the location of Farris Hall, the frosh was informed that the build- ing probably didn't exist. In this way, UT's new initiates learned that the number one rule of college life was persevere. Any other rules which the incoming freshman needs to know are, theoret- ically at least, learned at orientation. The purpose of this phenomenon is to acquaint the newcomer with the pro- cedures of registration and the loca- tions of university functions, an ob- 16 jective somewhat less realistic than touring Disney World in an hour. Arm-. ed with orange packets and the safety of numbers, the frosh were herded through tour and detour, dorm and dining room, into cavernous meeting rooms littered with pencils and crumpl- ed SCAN forms. Check-in at the Athletic Center, always a difficult gaunt- let to run, left many a shaken student wondering whether he spelled the digits of his name correctly or sent his hard-won schedule to someone else's file. Plodding crowds filled the hallways and bumped each other; it would not have been surprising to see Samson shoving through the mass, swinging the jawbone of an ass. Samson's weapon could have also been found at the welcoming speeches. Tired freshmen were warn- ed about crime and zone parking, in- troduced to organizations and ad- ministrators, and given still more directions. Having been oriented all morning, many students gratefully relaxed into their seats, laid aside the limp orange folders, and began to notice that the seemingly homogene- ous crowd contained individuals - classmates - potential friends.