<p>Girls switching from Villager and Ladybug clothes with Bass Weejuns and penny loafers to peasant dresses and sandals while in college.
Lots of students strenuously arguing that George McGovern wasn’t far enough left.
Never meeting a girl who had played youth soccer or basketball.</p>
<p>“Beer sold by the pitcher in the Rathskellar”</p>
<p>The Rat? In Boston? I lived in Kenmore Square at the Braemore (our slogan -Play More at The Braemore)</p>
<p>Here’s another college remembrance - False Fire Alarms - and typically they were in the wee hours of the morning.</p>
<p>Microfiche was high tech. Except there was no high tech yet. Card catalogues and visiting the deep stacks for research. The ATM machine on campus was new and groovy. Records. On a record player. Bell bottoms. Tie die. Making candles in snow. Women were finally allowed to walk into the front door of the student union a couple years before I got there. Yes. Environmental Science was almost impossible to find as a major. Many kids went to college to avoid the draft. Guitars were acoustic.</p>
<p>Coed dorms were racy. </p>
<p>Tuition for me at UMich. OOS was $313 per semester compared to Tufts which would have been 10k per year (late 70’s).</p>
<p>Boys were boys and girls were girls (as opposed to men and women).</p>
<p>Boys had long hair down to their waists and so did the girls.</p>
<p>Music blared out of the dorm windows on sunny days. No earbuds.</p>
<p>If your car broke down you walked the x miles back to the last station or waited for someone to drive by and help you. No cell phones. (I try to remind myself of this when paying the >$100 per month wireless bill.)</p>
<p>UMDAD - that was a close one.<br>
The only reason college took more than 4 years was to stay out of the draft.
Ah yes, Raquetball - loved it.<br>
No Nukes demonstrations & Three Mile Island.</p>
<p>Air Hockey tables were our generation’s version of the Wii, just as we played Electric Football, not Madden</p>
<p>Nobody had a TV. We went to the TV room to watch Saturday Night Live–with Belushi and the rest of the original cast. My roommate and I ran from dorm to dorm to find a TV room where we could watch “Battlestar Galactica.”</p>
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<li>NO ONE had a phone in their room. There was a booth down the hall & you sat in it to take/make calls.</li>
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<p>If a call came for you, the person who answered it would yell your name and also yell who was on the phone.</p>
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<li><p>The nice old lady at the desk in the dorm lobby where you had to sign all guests in & out.</p></li>
<li><p>The ground floor rooms whose windows male guests would climb in & out of all night, on weekends (glad my room was on the third floor!)</p></li>
<li><p>My Mom & I exchanged letters. Hers were long ( she missed me). Mine would have been longer than they were, but I was the one with the homework. </p></li>
<li><p>Every time James Taylor’s “Fire & Rain” came on the radio, someone on the hall would yell “Turn it up!” and the owner of the radio would oblige. </p></li>
<li><p>One really bleak icy evening in January the dining hall served some mystery with gray gravy, and girl stood up on a table and yelled 'What IS it?" She got a standing ovation.</p></li>
<li><p>“The Computer” was in a building called the Computer Center, and you hauled boxes of punchcards to & from there to have things run – whether you were a student or faculty or a gofer from the financial aid or admissions office.</p></li>
<li><p>There was a TV in the lounge on the ground floor. It was hardly ever watched, except for things like Nixon’s resignation.</p></li>
<li><p>Air conditioning?</p></li>
<li><p>In winter, students kept food that needed to be cold on the outisde windowsill of their room (no little fridges at the time). So if you walked on the sidewalk and looked up at the windows, you would see a line along the sills of milk cartons, oranges, cheese packages, etc.</p></li>
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<p>Foosball</p>
<p>The RA on my freshman dorm floor played ***American Pie ***by ***Don MacLean ***over and over and over and over…</p>
<p>The Trekkies all watchin Star Trek every weeknight at 7:00 p.m. in the dorm tv room.</p>
<p>A late night snack bar in the dorm named **Fannerio<a href=“a%20nod%20to%20the%20Grateful%20Dead.”>/B</a></p>
<p>popcorn cooked in our room almost nightly using an old electric popcorn popper…no microwave. We lost the popcorn popper when we sat in the in the open window of our 6th floor unairconditioned dorm room and it fell out.</p>
<p>A guy down my hall freshman year played “Layla” by Eric Clapton non-stop. </p>
<p>PackMom: I remember those popcorn poppers! I love your story of it falling out the window. I remember eating such junk food–we would eat cookies with ready-to-spread frosting and then the girl down the hall would go purge herself. This was before we ever heard of bulimia and just thought she had a diet plan that worked.</p>
<p>Some of you parents make me feel old… A stroll down memeory lane from many.</p>
<p>Early '70’s for college, a liberal flagship. It was fall of sophomore year the guy friend took his draft physical and then they abolished the draft. Riot cops in full gear but no demonstrations by the time I reached campus. Women’s lib in full swing.</p>
<p>Everyone wore jeans. Except in the spring when streakers appeared. Only had HS leftover miniskirts to use for senior interviews.</p>
<p>Food plan was a la carte with prices subtracted from one of three meal plans having different numbers of $10 cards- now zero required and student ID coded for money put into food account (no buying and selling of $10 amount cards near a semester’s end). Or cash as then.</p>
<p>Coed dorms began my sophomore year in just 2 dorms, 4 years ago the final dorm went coed. Trays, dishes taken illegaly- now there’s a return spot for such on each floor and traying was a photo in the dorm brochure. Still no air conditioning in many dorms.</p>
<p>My calculus book- used 3 semesters- cost $13. Did all calculations by hand. Even the Chemistry lab had only one calculator- a Wang. Had to do one punch card of data for a P chem lab- for the rest we used slide rule accuracy. Friend had a $100 calculator that probably did about 4 operations. She also had a reel to reel tape deck. Being late for Lit class (required- no AP) every time a paper was due as I was finishing typing it until class time.</p>
<p>MASH- the movie- was shown for $1 in a campus classroom. </p>
<p>End of one year floor "whopatoolie (spelling? of a nonword?) party in dorm. House dues used to buy a new metal garbage can and filled with a bit of everything- all alcohol legal age, but not allowed in dorms, hmm. Recall various booze, tea, lemonade…were in it.</p>
<p>National Merit was around in the 1960’s. AP’s weren’t in the 1970’s our region. We were and are an ACT state. SAT was only for NM or the few who needed it for OOS schools. Ah, yes SAT Achievement tests. No test prep or retakes, 1600 scoring and lower scores- before rescaling.</p>
<p>Minimum wage was $1.65- went up to $1.80, got a nickel/hr extra for working after midnight in the snack bar (where meal tickets could be used).</p>
<p>Public U had summer orientation. Student ID # was SSN plus a digit. A few years ago they purged old files’s ID numbers, reassigned them I believe. Registration was picking up paper forms at one end of campus, visiting all of the dept buildings you wanted classes in to get into a class and returning hand signed form to the opposite end of campus. Cold in January. At least you could talk a TA into letting you into a full class section you needed to make your schedule in that major work, unlike a computer. They finally retired the printed Timetable a couple of years ago. Still the same course numbers/classes and class times- except now they have a lot of 1 1/2 period classes 2x week instead of only the MWF times.</p>
<p>Each dorm room had a corded phone- free local calls, had to pay long distance bills. No cell phones- if friends weren’t in had no way of reaching them. They removed the room phones a couple of years ago. No computers, much less laptops or iphones.</p>
<p>Sending a snail mail written request for college catalogs and application forms. Then hand writing the forms and mailing them in (didn’t get the manual typewriter until HS graduation). Typing was a business course in HS, personal typing could be taken in summer school. Wasn’t going to be a secretary and was bored with the summer course so dropped out- hence horrible typing skills. No credit cards- even for parents.</p>
<p>Posting final exam grades - the professor would stick up a print out of social security numbers with the grade next to it outside his office door. The vast majority of the kids were from the northeast and the numbers began with 00x; but occassionally there would be a kid from California (or out west) and their grades stuck out since their SSN began with a 9xx-.</p>
<p>Early 70’s in big state U-</p>
<p>1 meal choice, served family style by kids on work study. If you were unlucky enough to have a class across campus between 12 and 1:30, you got a bag lunch-the previous night’s entree on white bread, or PBJ. </p>
<p>$175/semester tuition</p>
<p>No TV’s in room-one in lounge.</p>
<p>Mom called every Thursday at 7:00 p.m. Had to wait by the phone in the lobby for the call.</p>
<p>And yet…still the good old days!</p>
<p>Parents had little or nothing to do with your college application, admission or schedule, except to tell you what school or schools they were willing to pay for. And most of them could afford to pay at least part, since college was much less expensive, especially if you were a commuter, as I was.</p>
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<li>There were no “flexpoints” or “U-Bucks” or any such things. You showed up at mealtime and you got a meal.</li>
<li>The library had a “typewriter” room. Which is just like it sounds: a room full of typewriters where you could go to type your papers if you didn’t have your own typewriter (a rarity).</li>
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<p>Applications (only 2!) filled out by hand, and submitted via US mail.</p>
<p>Tuition at state flagship: $188/quarter.</p>
<p>Carbon paper. Whiteout. Those eraser pencil things with a brush on the other end.</p>
<p>Students hunched around the TV in the lounge watching the Watergate hearings.</p>
<p>The state-of-the-art audiovisual classroom tool: overhead projectors.</p>
<p>Mimeographed class handouts.</p>
<p>Dining room: Salad bar? Deli counter?? Vegan???</p>
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<li>My safety school was U.C. Berkeley.</li>
<li>My parents didn’t know my SAT scores or read my applications.</li>
<li>I took a train to college by myself at the beginning of freshman year. </li>
<li>Of course, I had not yet seen the school. The only things I knew about it were the brochures they sent and whatever I learned at the interview. (I no longer remember the interview.)</li>
<li>Orientation consisted of a camping trip to the beach where the upperclassmen tried to seduce the freshman girls.</li>
<li>Everyone smoked. A pack of cigarettes cost 35c (as did a tank of gas).</li>
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<p>Student tickets to the Phillies games–not in the bleachers, either–were under $3</p>
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<p>Perhaps you mean a gallon of gas.</p>
<p>Right you are. Of course, often I could only afford a gallon so it was the same as a tank.</p>