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

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7 Molly Harrell 1. Pete Scarmoutsos, junior in adverti ing, Steve Johnson, finance senior, and history senior lay Good show their Homecoming spirit. 2. With show- manship and verve, the ever-classy Pride of the Southland marching band sets the pace for the Homecoming parade. 3. The no-frills, SAE generic float. 4. ACE member Jennifer Zehner, senior in nursing, prepares to award trophies during halftime. 5. Almost anything can happen during Almost Anything Goes, and it usually does. 6. Hanging between some of the more detailed banners, the generic banner of SAULittIe Sisters of Minerva is an attention getter, no less. 7. Almost Anything Goes featured a shopping cart slalom course race. Student Life Molly Harrell 25

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Molly Harrell PLAYED THE GAMES TCONTJ The SAE's float was the most humorous, but it was the impressive entry from Lambda Chi Alpha and Chi Omega that floated away with first place in the large float division. Gary Yager, a junior from Tullahoma, told how they had worked around the clock Thursday night and the morning of the parade. Right up to the time we had to get to the parade starting line, we were running alongside the float still pomping and adding finishing touches, he said. This was the second year since 1969 that a Homecoming queen was elected, and like last year there was considerable controversy over continuing this tradition. Roger Bryant, a communications major from Anniston, Alabama and editor of the Daily Beacon wrote in the school's newspaper how such a tradition was sexist and frivolous. Kaye Johnson, a senior from Memphis was crowned Homecoming Queen during halftime. Kaye and four others were selected from 20 girls who were judged on factors such as grades 8.0 or highen, personalities, campus involvement, and of course physical attractiveness. The five finalists were then presented to the student body to be voted on. I was really honored, but I disagree with those who say this is just a beauty contest, said Kaye. When you consider that Kaye is an engineering major and that like the other finalists had a 3.4 grade point or higher, any arguments about Homecoming queens being just another pretty face fall by the wayside. Overall, it wasn't whether the Vols won or lost on that cold November 12th, but how much fun we had playing the games and showing our school spirit that really made the memories. - Ted Ed 245 Student Life Tom McNutt

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Experimentors Hit The Strip For NIGH T 5 TUDIES Nocturnal creatures by nature, stu- dents inhabit every chair and table of every establishment on the Strip, dri- ven by instinct to congregate with oth- ers of their species. In an attempt to explain some of the student's bizarre rituals, scientists are conducting an extensive study of this bipedal, sometimes quadrupedal, ani- mal in its natural habitat. Scientists pri- marily are interested in students found in bars because their behavior tends to be the most unusual and difficult to explain, and therefore, the most in- triguing. For one aspect of the study, three bars on the Strip, Gabby's, Antonio's, and Old College Inn were chosen as a representative cross-section of all the types of bars and students in the area. Gabby's, the first site of behavior stud- ies, was monitored during its Wednes- day night, 4 for 1, Animal Hour. Dr. Clark Barr, director of the He- donistic Student Studies institute, re- ported that on many occasions he has seen students line up by the dozens outside Gabby's door waiting to get in- side. Barr described Gabby's as being a good place for students to meet other students and form short, meaningless relationships. Jerry Breeden 2 ' Jerry Breeden 25 F Student Life