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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.

continued

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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"I've got 369 pages to read by tomorrow."

Pencader's picnic was well attended.

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