William Jewell College - Tatler Yearbook (Liberty, MO)

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'g ij . l l 1 il'. 1, jul .l li - - x . ' ' x ' Y -vrsu-nerve' - --st A, n Above: Longer lines, but less waiting greeted Sludents asthey tried a new Spring registration Pf0Cedure in the Mabee center. -- 4 -ge ef, . - fe '- L f f --1. i 1.-ff iii if f f i i :gl-'N ' . . QI!! f . Q, . 1 tg., A-. .,,.4j5 .e f .5-Hilxw Packed dorms ahd icy storms cause numerous problems for students and staff as In-X , Crowds and O cold hit campu by Kirk Pridd oin the crowd could well have been the motto for the first week in September at William lewell. Returning from summer vacations around the world and across the U.S., students were greeted by the largest group ' of incoming freshmen ever to make their way to the Campus of Achievement. . It was plain that the Admissions Staff had been achieving throughout the year, meeting and exceeding all of their recruitment goals. What was clearly ao triumph for the Admissions Office, however, quickly became a trial for members of the Student Affairs staff who had to scfamble for every available niche in order to house the incoming crowd. The problem was especially acute in the men's'residence halls. We had a very low no-show ratio this year, said Dan Griggs, dean of men. This fact, together with the arrival of over 40 football players not expected to attend here, accounted for much of the shortage. ' We would always like to over- book, he said, because 10-15 percent of those who say they will be coming usually do not show up in September. This year, however, a group of over 500 new students defied the averages. Among these were agnumber of men who had to be housed in the Married Student's Apartments and others who moved into a previously unoccupied college residence dubbed Lake House by the Student Affairs staff. 1 While students did not have a great deal of difficulty adjusting to the pro- blems of the room shortage, another crisis in the residence halls caught them completely unprepared during the se- cond semester. Upon returning from Spring Vaca- tions in sunny sites in Florida and southern Texas, members of the lewell student body were the recipients of Winter's last fury as a disastrous ice storm sheathed the campus in tons of ice and knocked out power for days. This time, however, the women's residences bore the brunt of the crisis. We slept in the dorm and froze, said jr. Kim Burnham, who remained in Sem- ple Hall throughout the power outage. The whole women's dorm complex was without electricity for most of the week following the storm, and many of the residents who could not crowd into Ely or Melrose just toughed it out in the cold. We had one girl who fell down the stairs in Semple and got a broken nose 'and concussion, said Lesa Armagost, the Resident Director of that facility. Our candles kept setting off the smoke alarms too, added Burnham. Despite the hardships imposed by the ice and cold, the diligent work of leweIl's maintenance crews hastened restoration of power by the utility com- pany long before much of the rest of the Kansas City area was served. The power, in face, was soon followed by the warm breath of spring that melted memoriesof the icy nights and bathed the Campus in sunshine again. . Packed Campus I 13