Western Kentucky University - Talisman Yearbook (Bowling Green, KY)

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14 First week August 22 the campus was deserted. Seven days and 13,358 students later vacation was history, and school was riday, Aug. 22, was a quiet day on FE Western's campus. Several football players, back early for summer practice, sat in the lobby of the nearly deserted university center. The Diddle Arena parking lot was almost empty, and although the day was hot and sun- ny, a few tennis players on the Russellville Road courts seemed to be the only sign of life on the campus. Saturday, Aug. 23, however, was a different matter. : “It was great,’ Kumiko Nishida, a senior from Kagoshimaken, Japan, said. “One day the place was deserted and the next day it was packed,” she said. She had stayed on campus to attend the summer sessions. She said the boredom of summer in Bowling Green was broken as if by magic the day.the students came back. The Diddle Arena parking lot was almost full by mid-morning. By noon, the university center SATURDAYS ARE THE BEST days to buy textbooks because of shorter lines and less crowds. Tom Angsten, a senior from Detroit, Mich., got tired of carrying his books and instead decided to use his head as a brace. lege Heights Bookstore mioning University Center extern Kentucky University Brot ‘armen, Kemcmcly — Todd Buchanan lobby was full of students back from summer vacation. Groups of students with red and yellow maps roamed the campus, pointing out landmarks like Cherry Hall and Van Meter Auditorium. Three girls in jeans and halter tops stood on the bridge at Fort Albert Sidney Johnston stu- dying their maps. “Is this a fort?”’ one of the girls asked a male passerby walking under the bridge. He shrugged, said, ‘‘Beats me,’ and walked on. “He must be a freshman, too,”’ the girl said, laughing with her friends. Near the dormitories, students and parents were busy carrying boxes and bags, waiting to use shopping carts and rolling luggage racks and looking for places to park. A few parents brought folding lawn chairs, so they could sit in front of South Hall and super- vise the move. Nearly 5,000 students moved into Western's dorms that Saturday, and by day's end the transformation of the campus was complete. Even though she had been here all summer, Nishida wasn't spared the trouble of moving in during the first week. ‘I had to move four times over the summer so they could do work in the buildings. It was good to finally have a place to stay for a few months,” she said. “I was used to it (moving) by then,” she recalled. ‘The first thing | did Saturday was to go look for some of my friends last semester.” ONCE STUDENTS have unpacked, something has to be done with the grocery bags and boxes they have brought with them. Two students walk by a pile of cardboard con- tainers behind Gilbert Hall. starting over Besides looking up old friends, the first week of school gave students a few days before. classes to relax and get settled. More than 200 students went to the Grise Hall parking lot Saturday night for a street dance, sponsored by University Center Board. The concert, featuring the Reactions, was the first of several outdoor concerts. Monday night, the rock group Lodestar enter- tained students in the Fine Arts Center Amphitheater. UCB president Leslie Freels said the concert was one of the most successful of the semester. ‘There was a big crowd — at least 400 peo- ple,’ the senior from Cadiz said. ‘‘The am- phitheater was full, almost standing room only.” Marie Bunce from Louisville said she spent a good part of the week cleaning her apartment. “It was the only time all year it was neat,” Bunce said. Bunce got a jump on the semester by buying her books before classes had even started. ‘‘It’s really worth it,”’ she said. ‘Even if you have to bring one back, at least you miss the first-week lines in the bookstore.” Bunce also attended summer school, both at Western and the University of Louisville. She said attending school all summer took some of the fun out of coming back for the fall. “| really hated to come back this year,”’ she said. ‘You don't get enough of a break between continued on page 17 A DOOR HANDLE gives Larry Wenning the height he needs to untie strings around his luggage. The Pittsburgh, Pa., sophomore was moving into Barnes-Campbell Hall in late August. — Todd Buchanan

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