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

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Freshman When Dunes Day, the highlight of freshman orientation week, was overcast as usual.:Despite the weather and the short hike through the Indiana Dunes, Melissa Hermann lleftl and Pamela Kammer managed to come out smiling. to lik : B+ X Confusion sets in as roommates Melissa Clark and Suzanne Dollase try to find their way to class the first week of school. Holding the map right-side up usually does the trick! l s Valparaiso University President Robert V. Schnabel shakes hands with the class of 1986 at a reception in his home as he welcomes them once again to the University.

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YS fx I 1 .1 You Know You're A VU You know you're a VU Freshman when upperclassmen just snicker when you ask them what Dunes Day is - you register for all 8:00 classes so you can get them over with - your profs give you a syllabus which you keep up with - and they don't - you're the only one at the keggar with a purse - you actually keep in touch with your high school friends - you learn not to throw your red sweat pants in the wash with your underwear - you plan to take stress run next year - you go to bed before midnight - you find out the parents of 15 other kids on your floor went to Valpo,too - you walk down to old campus the same way everyday so you don't get lost - you have to look up the number for Greeks - you aquire a taste for coffee - you perfect your taste for beer - all your brothers and sisters get Val- paraiso University sweatshirts for Christmas and their birthdays. Spokes-dragon for VU Food Services, Ollie Cart, made a guest appearance at the Student - Prof Bar- beque. Ollie became a familiar friend to freshmen this year as he helped introduce the new food ser- vice program this year. Freshmen got a chance to meet each other and their professors at the Student - Professor Barbeque held on the Union Patio. The food was good and so was the atmosphere as everyone was given the opportunity to get aquainted before they met on a more official basis in the classroom. K

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OKTOBERFEST 82 The 1982-83 Union Board broke tradi- tion this year by scheduling Oktoberfest, a major all-campus event, the weekend be- fore Homecoming. Board members came up with the idea for the Oktoberfest booth fair, to be held on old campus, to generate even more enthusiasm for the annual Homecoming activities. In typical Valpo style, rain fell on the day of the fair, but quick and effective Union Board action moved the fair into the Union's Great Hall with few complica- tions. The event was a great success. Homecoming anticipation mounted with the festive gathering of people, music and food. Booths featured baked goods ga- lore, traditional German fare such as pret- zels and bratwurst, and American favor- ites like popcorn and caramel apples. One organization displayed silvery helium bal- loons, another sold buttons, and still an- other took orders for calendars sporting 12 of Valpo's best looking men. Authentic German music added to the native spirit, as a mime entertained the crowd with white-faced antics. The more contemporary crowd rocked to the early sixties sound of the Fabulous lets who performed live on the Great Hall stage. Favorites from the Beatles and the Doors, as well as the lets own original tunes inspired several couples to head out to the dance floor. Sounds of the 60 s filled the Union Great Hall stage with Fabulous lets 'IB l