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Sometimes it's the Little Things
that can brighten Your Day
Like . . .
— getting mail besides bills and credit card
applications.
— going to class on a beautiful day only to
find that it's been cancelled.
— finding change in the change machine at
the Student Center.
— returning to your forgotten laundry only to
find that someone has folded it on top of the
dryer for you.
— finding all the books you need at the li-
brary for your research paper due the day
after tomorrow.
— getting a package.
— a dreaded exam that has been postponed.
Checking out the upcoming events in Rodney.
Card games are one way that these girls in Dickinson spend their time.
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Oil a cold night wrap-ping up in blankets is one way to keep warm.
Sharing birthday wish-es in Dickinson. Dickinson E/F
Aerobics are a new and popular addition to the regular activities.
Finding respite from dorm distractions. A student who can study on the bed with-out falling asleep.
Rodney A/B
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Dickinson A/B
Sharing a room often leads to a good friend-ship.
During the afternoon the front of Dickinson A/B is crowded with bikes.
Poptarts are usually jealously hoarded with students, but not with these two.
This is one student who can manage to study on the bed with-out falling asleep.
Dickinson C/D
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Laundry: the inevita-ble necessity.
In the basement seri-ous coke addicts find refreshment.
Sometimes it's the Little Things
that can Ruin Your Day Like . . .
— losing your third umbrella this year just as it starts to rain.
— leaving your dorm without a PDI card.
— being number 324 on the waiting list for housing.
— doing worse on an exam than you thought you did.
— a phone bill for fifty dollars more than you have in your account.
— forgetting that you have a paper due to-morrow.
— an obscene message on your answering machine.
— somebody's hair ball in the sink.
— running out of toilet paper on Saturday.
— missing notes in class because your T A can barely speak English.
Having to work hard is one of the negative as-pects of life in college.
Watching TV in the lounge is one way to fill up rare and pre-cious spare time.
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A weeknight card game offers these guys relief from their stud-ies. A new student often finds it easy to get lost in Rodney's complex Rodney C/D
Rodney E/F It's a wonder none of these windows were broken by stray balls from the playing field.
Mail is a much looked forward to event.
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Dietary Stress Relief This diet is designed to
help students cope with
the stress that builds up
during the day.
Sunbathers out by Rodney's wall.
For some people a lit-tle spare time means more time to spend with each other.
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BREAKFAST
V2 Grapefruit
1 slice whole wheat bread, dry
8 oz. skimmed milk
LUNCH
4 oz. lean broiled chicken breast
1 cup steamed spinach
1 Oreo cookie
MID-AFTERNOON SNACK Rest of Oreos in the package
2 pints Rocky Road ice cream
1 jar hot fudge sauce
Nuts, cherries, whipped cream
DINNER
2 loaves garlic bread with cheese
Large Sausage, mushroom, cheese pizza
4 cans or 1 large pitcher of beer
3 Milky Way or Snickers Bars
LATE EVENING SNACK One entire frozen cheesecake directly from the freezer
Stress Relief
continued
RULES FOR THE DIET
1. If you eat something and no one sees
you, it has no calories.
2. If you drink a diet soda with a candy bar,
the calories in the candy bar are can-
celled out by the diet soda.
3. When you eat with someone else, calo-ries don't count if you don't eat more than they do.
4. Foods used for medicinal purposes never
count (hot chocolate, brandy, toast and
jam and Sara Lee Cheesecake).
5. If you fatten everyone else around you, you look thinner.
6. Cookie pieces contain no calories. The
process of breakage causes calorie leak-
age.
In Sussex and most But this security moni-other dorms checking tor manages to do the in guests is often con- dirty deed with a sidered a hassle. smile.
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Canon New Castle
Getting rid of that three day scruff in Canon Hall.
The residents of Can-on and New Castle Halls.
The ladies of Sussex and Squire enjoying late night movies with the man of Harter.
Ordering out; a favor-ite alternative to din-ing hall cuisine.
Sussex Squire
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Warner Kent
A sunny room for studying in Smyth.
A friendly gathering of friends in Kent.
Smyth Cardsharks in the making.
Searching through drawers in Smyth.
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Stress Relief continued
MORE RULES FOR THE DIET
7. Movie related foods do not have addi-tional calories as they are part of the entire entertainment package (Milk Duds, popcorn, Junior Mints, Tootsie Rolls).
8. Things licked off spoons and knives have no calories if you are in the process of making something. Examples: Peanut Butter on the knife making the sandwich and ice cream on the spoon making the sundae.
9. Foods that have the same color have the same calories. Examples: spinach and pistachio ice cream, mushrooms and white chocolate.
10. Chocolate is a universal color and may
be substituted for any other color.
Try not to run up the phone bill too much.
Big exams mean lots of studying.
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DOCTOR D O C T O R DOCTOR DOCTOR D O C T O R
It's a disease that afflicts young people
upon entering their first year at college. It
can strike at anytime without warning,
sending the newcomer into uncontrollable
dreams about family vacations, cleaning out
the garage, walking the dog and actually
wanting to be in the same vicinity as siblings.
These dreams cause the novice to rush to the
phone, dial the calling card number, while
trying to swallow the huge lump that is form-
ing in the throat and wiping away the mois-
ture that is spouting from the eyes, only to
reach the answering machine with that corny
message your mother made that you had
once ridiculed, but now listening to it, brings a
tear to your eye. This disease affects the
mind causing the person to wish that they
were back in high school with home econom-
ics and phys. ed.
The common name for this ailment is
homesickness of " T h e Freshman Blues." It
strikes every freshman at college away from
mom and dad, brothers and sisters, cat and
dog for the first time, usually during the first
few months of dealing with classes with four
hundred students, needing binoculars to see
the professor, psycho roommates and noisy
f loormates, the dining halls (need I say
more?) and Delaware puddles.
Lounging around Discussions in without a lot to do in earnest.
Sharp.
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Sypherd Brown
"What are you taking my picture for?"
A view of Sypherd and Brown from the mall.
Men of Harter taking their ease.
Tension increases as exams get nearer.
Sharp Harter
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Gilbert A/B
Relaxing outside and taking a smoke.
Lounges are rarely crowded except during finals.
Gilbert D/E Preparing for a friend's birthday in Gilbert D
Is that really an iron in an all guy's dorm?
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D O C T O R D O C T O R
continued In time the symptoms subside as the fresh-
man is introduced to the flip side of college
life, hanging out with friends, keg parties,
fraternity parties and best of all — SCOP-
ING!! — mom and dad? Who're they? Once
the college routine is down pat and you pre-
tend not to be a freshman, the disease goes
into remission. It returns only during mo-
ments of high stress and pressure — 30 page
papers, 3 exams in one day, failed exams,
girl fr iend/boyfriend scope problems and
overall growing up. This provokes freshmen
to grab their teddy bears and to scream at the
top of their lungs: " I W A N T M Y M O M M Y " ! ! !
But fear not, this usually only occurs around
finals and it happens to everyone.
24 hour quiet hours become a necessity during finals.
Don't try to study too hard.
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D O C T O R D O C T O R
Even upperclassmen exhibit some symptoms
although they're not as strong. The symp-
toms are more like cravings. A craving for
" r e a l " food cooked by good ole mom, a
" r e a l " shower with water pressure and a
" r e a l " bed without a plastic mattress. A
large majority of the time at home is spent in
bed sleeping and in front of the T V vegging
and sometimes in the refrigerator eating. For
the upperclassman, home is a place of es-
cape from the craziness of college. It's a
chance to relax and to experience the real
world again. Home gives the student a
breather, an opportunity to gather together
the reinforcements and gets you prepared to
plunge into it again — fresh and new —
ready to conquer the world!
So, freshmen fear not. You're not the only
ones who need home once in awhile, even
upperclassmen (Yes we do! Admit it!) need
home once in awhile too.
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The stairwell in Gilbert F, originally
designed to be a dining hall.
Packing things up in Gilbert C.
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Just about ready for a study break.
Unpacking in front of Gilbert F.
Gilbert C/F
Group study session in Harrington C.
Taking down a loft can be an arduous task.
Harrington
C
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Harrington A/B
The basketball court in active use.
An organized desk is the key to good study habits.
Members of the gang.
Getting ready to come outside for some fun in the sun.
Harrington
D/E
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A Day at the Beach Each day a little while after the sun rises
a few unfortunate souls wander across
the beach on their way to an eight
o'clock class. At this time of the morning a
bleak atmosphere hangs over the beach re-
minding those early risers of classes, exams
and interrupted sleep which can only mar an
otherwise beautiful day.
This scene is quite different to someone
with all afternoon classes or someone who
habitually skips morning classes. During the
fall months groups of people are always on
the field. The most popular day game is foot-
ball but after the sun goes down and the lights
go up it's basketball on the courts. Games
have been spotted as late as 1:30 A M during
the week. During the spring football remains
a popular sport but along side are games of
frisbee or baseball with an occasional la-
crosse ball being tossed around amongst the
sun worshippers.
Through these months the beach has
Active play on a hot day.
This is the time for sun worshipping.
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The Beach
continued
traditionally been the place to lay out and
catch some rays. From which the grassy field
takes its name. This year though, the num-
bers of sun worshippers on the beach had
diminished. People now sun their bodies in
the grass circle behind Gilbert A/B, between
Sussex and Warner and up in the field behind
Brown and Sypherd.
Another spring ritual on the beach is there-
seeding of the field. But everyone knows that
such attempts are in vain as crowds of people
and nights of mud football keep some areas
devoid of growth. When students return to
campus in the fall Harrington Beach will be a
sea of grass. But throughout the year the
students take their toll on the grass leaving
nothing but bare dirt.
The ultimate time to play on the beach is,
of course, during the rain. There is nothing
like a good game of co-ed mud football to
take one's mind off academia.
Early mornings on the weekend have the
same bleak atmosphere but with a different
cast of characters. Af ter a night of partying
and hooking up some people are anxious to
get back to their own rooms before the gener-
al public realizes that they spent the night
with someone else.
Rolling down the beat-en path.
A quiet place for some studying.
Ready for the sun-shine.
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Getting ready for din-ner in Russell E
A visit from a friend is a good excuse for a study break.
Russell A/B
Russell D/E Members of the gang.
Books aside, laying out is the best time to re-lax.
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Russell C
Taking time out to write a letter in Thompson.
Russell C lounge time.
With Lane in the back-ground, taking some time out for the sun.
Finding an innovative way to get a message across.
Lane
Thompson
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With a textbook in its proper place one can turn to more important matters.
Waiting in the sun outside Thompson.
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Is This
Legal?
The University Residence Halls Hand-
book states that with the exception of
fish and seeing eye dogs no pets are
permitted within University housing. Y e t
most of us know at least one and probably
more persons that stand in violation of this
regulation. Anything that is small and lives in
a cage is easy to get away with. Hamsters
and gerbils are by far the most popular but
there is still a fair share of small lizards and
other oddities to be found.
There have also been a number of tarantu-
las on campus. Ye t these fascinatingly ugly
creatures often are not half as interesting as
their owners. On North Campus getting away
with an illegal pet is a little easier and an
occasional cat has been seen wandering
through Pencader. Such a perpetrator is usu-
ally a stray cat that has been adopted by the
residents in that quad.
Birds, too, have made their appearance in
University housing. They can range from lit-
tle canaries to large talking (or squawking)
tropical birds.
Some of these pets can make even the
most tolerant roommate a little uneasy. Ye t I
would be more comfortable with a lizard
named Blain than a legal, but vicious Oscar
fish.
A warm but illegal companion.
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A friendly tarantula with his owner.
The Pencader gang. Pencader
Some of the gang at a Pencader gathering.
A friendly ferret out for a walk.
Pencader
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Pencader
Watching the band at the Pencader Picnic.
Checking out the scene in front of the dining hall.
Christiana Towers house most of the Uni-versity's on-campus upperclassmen.
Library books abound.
The Towers
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