Valparaiso University - Beacon / Record Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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Tim Voss, lop, pulls a Sicilian pizza out of the oven. Middle, a behind-the- scenes look at pizza preparation. Bottom left, a Creek's employee makes the final check on a delivery. Bottom right, Lambda Chis stop in to visit their fraternity brother Mike was made an honorary Chopl

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V.U. junior Joanne Bynoe, be- low, shares a Creek's pizza with freshman sister Carolt Mike Kar- amesines, right, owner of Creek's Pizzeria, displays the product that was voted the best in Valpo. Grcclfs llWhat's one of the first things a freshman asks the R.A.? 'Where do you get your pizza from?' And what do they say? . . . 'Greek's. ' According to Mike Karamesines, owner of The Greek's Pizzeria, that initial recommenda- tion develops into a four-year love affair for many V.U. students. And a campus-wide survey conducted by the Beacon confirms the fact that Greek's is the place for pizza in Valpo. But Greek's wasn't always the students' fa- vorite. As a matter of fact, Creek's wasn't always Greekls. . - For 17 years Mike's parents operated a little restaurant, called the Tropicana, at 454 Green- wich. In 1969, when they retired, he took over the business and gradually converted it into a pizzeria. It wasn't an easy road to success. lll used to go 25 or 30 days without a day off when we started, says Mike. It took a lot of persever- ance and sticking with it v but it's finally paid off. We've got a profitable business now, and every year has become better and better. Mike emphasizes that it's the pizza that t -, fawn t , pizza voted best in llalpo draws customers to Creek's. At a place like ours, you know you're coming to eat the pizza, not to look around, he says. But even if I had 10 restaurants, they'd all be small. You don't need a $500,000 place to be successful. Mike's conquest of Valpo certainly proves that. An additional measure of his success, though, is the close customer relationship he has developed. We've made a lot of good friends here, at V.U. in particular e friends who keep in touch wherever they go, he says. Alumni come back for homecoming and make it a point to stop by and visit. That's when it all really pays off. Like the list of friends, Greek's business con- tinues to grow year by year. I went to graduation a couple of years ago, says Mike, and looked at the front row of seniors. I said to myself, 'My God e all of them are my customers. What am I going to do next year?' . But it just keeps getting better and better. e lulie Liesse

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Campus lifeyentertainment mmmms WIIO OIIO'I' LBJ: FIIALIJ. AI AISWII The second southern heat wave of the year swept the country last fall, as Dallas tfever reached epidemic proportions. On Nov. 21, 83 million Americans turned on their television sets for tfinallyll the answer to the summer's most popular question: Who shot J.R.? America's favorite villian and the .star of the nighttime soap opera, as it came out, was shot by his sister-in-law and mistress, Kristin Shepard. The show not only prompted the incredible Western craze that captivated the nation, but the Nov. 21 episode set a new Niel- sen record for the all-time most- watched commercial program; JR. Ewing tLarry Hagmanl America's favorite villian. 30 Entertainment Mmmmms General Hospital edges out Qll my Kids 03 Volpo's top ' soap opera Surprisingly enough, a large number of guys as well as girls said that they tuned into soap operas. The story of Luke and Laura's flight, and subsequent flighty ro- mance helped General Hospital beat out All My Children .. despite Cliff and Nina's problems - for the cam- pus' favorite soap opera. The two programs combined to win nearly half the survey votes, out- distancing by far all the other sel- dom-mentioned soaps. Happy neWS for some, though, is the fact that more respondents said that they didnlt watch any soap than the total of all who said they did. U W MUYSWI STILL 'l'0PS AT V.U. Perhaps the nicest thing about the 1980-1 television season was the fact that is premiere was delayed by an actors' strike. That translates into less summer reruns! On the serious side, however, viewers protested when Archie Bunker's Dingbat died - how could All in the Family ever be the same? But all in the family took on a different meaning with the establish- ment of the nighttime soap opera as a staple of television lineups. Shows like Dynasty, Flamingo Road,and 5e- crets of Midland Heights tried to ca- pitalize on the Dallas success with plenty of intrigue, sex and family conflict. In the Beacon's campus-wide sur- vey, however, an old stand-by re4 mained tops on Valpo viewers' lists: MtAtS'H was voted overwhelm- ingly the campusl favorite program. Archie Bunker lost dingbat Edith in a Novem- ber episode A 4 Aw