Western Michigan University - Brown and Gold Yearbook (Kalamazoo, MI)

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. . . And The Administration Buil I am one of the 2,886 people who all seemed to be in the same position Freshmen. Only I fooled them. Today was the first day of orientation. I feel like a big kid now! I made everybody think I was older than I really am. My sister's ID card from last year was all I needed. After all, shekind of looks like me. My group all thought I was their student leader. I thought about it for awhile and I couldn't fig- ure out how I could give a tour of WMU when I didnit know the differ- ence between the health center and the administration building. Finally, I had to tell them that I really wasn't their leader. I didn't want to get my fellow freshmen anymore mixed up than we already were. Tonight we're supposed to go see a set of slide shows and skits put on by the student leaders. After that who knows. We have free time to do what- ever we want. No time limit!! NO PARENTS!! I feel sorry for all those people heading for a hard night because they ll also have a hard time tomor row Placement tests financial inter views, and minority student meet- ings are planned. Furthermore, cata- logs and schedules are to be handed out. This is what everyone is waiting for. What a pain! After that, a gener- al education meeting is planned to help us newcomers to check out some of the many classes Western has to offer. As if we really cared. Rightl? I think school is the farthest thing from our minds. What else are we gonna do? Oh yes. A tour beginning with the academic department dis- plays comes next. Then, come some of the main buildings on campus. How I'1l ever, ever find my way around I'll never know. The last day we're suppose to sign up for classes. YUK! The good part of it is we're going to get our mug shots taken for ID's, so I'll have my very own. I won't have to pretend anymore. I'll be a big college kid. - Vicki Bailey J fi

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If Only The Millions S Were Spectator The silence is deafening at soccer games, as the only sounds heard by the players is the noise they made themselves, as it echoes off the emp- ty seats in Waldo Stadium. No one is there to cheer on the weary runners of the cross country team, nor are there very many urging the girl's field hockey or volleyball teams on. Only basketball in Read Fieldhouse, foot- ball in Waldo Stadium, and ice hock- ey in the new Recreation Building draw close to a full house. WMU has eleven different facili- ties for varsity and intramural sports, all of which are in excellent condition for participants and spec- tators alike. Two new ones were add- ed this year alone. The Recreation Building encompasses the Harry W. Lawson Ice Arena and the Edward A. Gabel Natatorium and Kanley Track, a nine lane, quarter mile, all weather, outdoor track and site of the 1975 MAC track championships. Kanley Track, completed this fall, replacing the old track torn out at Waldo Stadium, during the addition of more seating there, brings outdoor track meets back to Westem after a one year absence. Besides the run- ning surface it has rings for shot put, discus, and hammer throw, and pits for high jumping and pole vaulting. Upon completion it will seat twenty- five hundred fans to send Western! through its home season. The ice 'arena named after WMU's first hockey coach has a two hundred foot by eighty-five foot plexi-glassed enclosed ice surface and room for for- - ty-five hundred screaming hockey fans. The Natatorium named for WMU's first swimming coach, has a one hundred twenty foot pool with a movable bulkhead for separating the .diving from the swimmers. It has two one-meter boards and one three-me- ter board and seven hundred fifty aluminum backed seats for the plea- sure of the hardy fans. The pool is built to university standards and is a high class pool, capable of holding any type of swimming event whether intramural meets or championship meets for league. f -- ..- ,AI AW.-'Q ' X a--.. 'Qgx ' - . V , , , 'ln-.Q ,mr Q . ,V .Y HT4 ., - ,Q 1 -- ,L '-vg,n-xl 4. 11 'T' if-f J, -I '79 . 5 -'N Wx TX -N 3 '- -- ' , ' -T Q- JD'- r-.., -- - ra s i'- 7,3 xx 'FWS - ' ,, 'i- 24:21. L-5' , I 1. - , ..., , - . lf?