University of Tulsa - Kendallabrum (Tulsa, OK)

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an If FSI DDD DDC li JIIHDCK BY PAM INFIELD Be There! O.K. So you were there. What about it? Anything? I mean, what is it about 1977-78 that is worth remember- ing? What will you tell them when the grandkids say what was life like way back then? You won't want to lie or make up some story like, well kids, I was really BIG on campus because you know, and all the rest of us most certainly know you were nowhere man. Let's face it. If you were BIG it was only because you had a terminal case of El Taco-HeIl!Jumbo Jack syn- drome. And eight nights a week Cstarting at noonj your home away from was Cardo's, Pistachio's or the T-room for the more conventional, where you could be found indulging yourself in beer, tequila, more beer and a six- pack of margaritas to go. And off you went, too, singing Wasting away in Margaritaville and never meaning it more until the next morning. We've established the fact that YOU weren't big - but Dolly Parton sure was Cbigj. She topped the charts with Here You Come Again and Porter's old side-kick be- came every I'm-not-a-cowboy-I-just-found-the-hat-guy's poster girl for the year. Hello Dolly. Goodbye Farrah. The million dollar man's wife was suddenly just another out- dated model on Jr's Used Car Lot. Ah yes. It was the year for intellectual questions ... no more the Who am I or Like, where are you coming from, man but fascinating, stimulating, philosophical questions like When do you say Budweiser? And you know the answer. It's just not the one you gave your mother when she called you every Monday morning at 7:00 A.M. to inquire if you were eating right and getting enough sleep. Sure Mom. Just send money. I've been studying so hard I've forgotten what day it is. That's right another lost weekend. Am l seriously studying you say? Uh Iet's just say my grades are really serious. When will I write? Soon. Real soon. Click. CLike the sec- ond Tuesday of next week.J The hit of the year was Pop Rocks those bizarre little CO2 fizz candies that came in every imaginable gour- met flavor, orange, grape, strawberry, liver, you name itg you ate it. What? You fed them to your dog? Come on. You didn't really tell your prof the reason you forgot to take that statistics final was because the Pop Rocks made you go beserk, did you? Brainwashed. That was the doctor's diagnosis. Just because you paid to see Star Wars more times than your parents threatened to drop you out of their will was no reason to dress up like R2-D2 and run around on top of the library like some deranged Ronald McDonald clown in search of the golden arches. And it was the year for Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Sure, we all experienced strange relationships, but was that any reason to give up dating altogether and become intimate with your pet crab? Granted, pet crabs were more congenial than pet rocks . . . at least they DID respond. And we mustn't overlook Anita. Tulsa's own and the state's ex-Miss Oklahoma achieved fame when she made it to the top-10 most admired women of the year list due to her questionable infatuation with oranges but some- what obvious distaste for other types of fruit. How did you feel Anita? Either way, you weren't alone. Were you one of the Trekkies who crawled out of the woodwork nightly to watch spellbound as Dr. Spock talked of his inability to understand the human race? Or were you back to the basics of life with Waylon and Willie and the boys? It was cool, you know, to be laid back - and Luckenbach was definitely the place to be. Maybe you were out on the town discoing the night away. Did Saturday Night Fever overwhelm you even on Wednesdays? You'll just have to explain to your grand- children that the reason you're in a wheelchair twenty years before your time is because of that relentless beat that kept you on your feet twenty-five hours a day and just wouldn't let you go. Hey. It's O.K. You survived it all. Just maintaining was your major accomplishment for the year. And you did it. You were there - and you know you loved it. Aloha!

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FU W IUI ll'lll'f AIUFIH BY JIM HUNSTEIN AND DOUG CRAIN The Alexander Health Center went through some very positive changes this year. The first development, which was responsible for all the others, was the hiring of Mrs. Joanne Lilly as director. Mrs. Lilly, a registered nurse, came to TU from Doctors Hospital where she was head of the ln-Service Training Program for Nurses. Before that, she was on the nursing faculty for Hillcrest Medical Center in a program designed to train nurses. James Vander Lind, Dean of Students, believes she is very capable of handling the job as director. He said, Mrs. Lilly is a very thorough person, a very conscien- tious person, and a creative and assertive administra- tor. Some of the changes that Mrs. Lilly brought with her include better documentation of records, more contact with Dean Vander Lind, and more health education pro- grams for students. Through the better documentation of the records, the health center staff kept track of students better. Those students who needed to come in on a regular basis for such things as allergy shots, diabetes tests, and blood pressure tests, were reminded that they needed to be checked. Mrs. Lilly talked to Dean Vander Lind usually twice a day regarding different aspects of the center. Many times she had questions about state laws and how to deal with certain illnesses and what the university policies are con- cerning these areas. These are the kinds of questions that any newcomer would need to ask. But she also talked about new programs and new equipment that she thought were needed. Mrs. Lilly had several ideas for new health education programs for the students because, as she put it, stu- dents don't think about health until they're sick. So she set up clinics to help students before they got sick. That way, the staff could discover the problem and give the appropriate medical advice. There were screenings set up to check students' blood pressure and monitor other vital signs and to give sugar diabetes tests. Weight-loss and stop-smoking clinics were also set up. The Alexander Health Center is not a complete medical center, nor is it intended to be. lt is designed to take care of the routine illnesses that a student body is likely to have.