friday
june 1, 1979
vol 71 no 148
1. Fraternity Rush
2. Any other kind of rush
3. Halloween Ball
4. Robert Bryan telling a reporter to “go soak her head.”
5. The Music Listening Room
6. Scantily-clad women
7. Scantily-clad men
8. Validated fee cards
9. Tubing down the Ichetucknee
10. Bothering William Elmore at home on Sundays
11. Homecoming
12. Getting arrested and reprimanded while working in a non-student capacity.
13. Leonardo’s pizza by the slice
14. Cheap movies
15. Cheap bowling
16. Cheap thrills
17. Arguing about Julie Jett’s purpose in life
18. Pulling all nighters
19. The Great Southern Music Hall
20. Robert Q. Marston’s nervous grunt when asked a tough question
21. The Primrose Inn
22. The Plaza of the Americas
23. Stealing newspapers from the reserve room
24. Tornado season
25. Hurricane season
26. Football season and other natural disasters
27. Rob Denson’s innocent face and wishy-washy answers
28. Century Tower
29. Parking Tickets
30. Gator Nationals
31. Lake Alice Alligators
32. Flies in the newsroom
33. The Melody Club and Apple Love
34. Jed Smock
35. Midnight trips to Albertson’s
36. Gator Growl fireworks
37. Driving past panhandlers and Greek charity drives
38. The Devil’s Millhopper
39. The “revolting” disco bar
40. Numbered Courses
41. Numbered streets
42. Numbered trees
43. Numbered people
44. Snuffy’s burgers
45. Lake Wauburg
46. Protest Rallies
47. Campus-wide construction
48. Drinking “up front”
49. Robber Barrons
50. Buddy Davis’ office skull
51. The lighting of the campus Christmas tree
52. Dreaming up new excuses for avoiding schoolwork
53. Free concerts
54. Going going bananas
55. The student ghetto
56. Quiche at The Olde College Inn (Lentil stew)
57. Paynes Prairie
58. Servomation
59. The Hippodrome Theater
60. Throwing frisbees
61. Watching squirrels run
62. Throwing frisbees at squirrels and watching them run.
63. Gatorman
64. Gary “no comment” Koepke’s quotes on deadline
65. The Boomer
66. Gator wrestling anbd volleyball
67. Singing “We are the boys from Old Florida” at games.
68. Krishnas
69. Dickey-style fourth down plays
70. Dodging vehicles in crossroads
71. Dodging crossroads in vehicles
72. Manizing and Womanizing
73. Closed meetings in Tigert Hall
74. In ‘N Out
75. Howard Appledorf
76. Mr. Two Bits
77. Fred McCreet
78. Leaving town for breaks
79. Coffee dregs
80. Ballet classes in the women’s gym
81. Registration lines
82. Drop/add lines
83. Financial aid lines
84. Coke lines
85. Free phones in the libraries
86. The GPA sitting wall
87. The Independent Florida Alligator
88. Hating Georgia and Florida State
89. Mel Turner’s trivia questions
90. Dodging rollerskaters
91. Dodging pedestrians
92. Nichol’s Alley wet T-shirt night
93. Gainesville Green
94. Alachua mushrooms
95. Dating the girls in the School of Building Construction
96. The Pell Promise
97. Bageland
98. The Stephen C. O’Connell Activities Center
99. The Spring Arts Festival
100. The last deadline
101. Micanopy
100 THINGS IN GAINESVILLE (1978)
101 THINGS WE’LL MISS ABOUT GAINESVILLE (1979)
100 THINGS IN GAINESVILLE (1982)
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Steely Dan
((( “i got the news” )))
Dire Straits
((( “news” )))
friday
june 1, 1979
vol 71 no 148
This tongue-in-cheek look at Gainesville peculiarities was compiled by and dedicated to the five Alligator staffers graduating and leaving the area this quarter. Dan Majors, Betty Morgan, Oscar Sanchez, Melody Simmons, and Russell Small are all bound for other areas of the country — but who can forget …
1979 — This tongue-In-cheek look at Gainesville peculiarities was compiled by and dedicated to the five Alligator staffers graduating and leaving the area this quarter. Dan Majors, Betty Morgan, Oscar Sanchez, Melody Simmons, and Russell Small are all bound for other areas of the country — but who can forget…
turbulent times (1973-1974)
O’CONNELL (UNEXPECTED RESIGNATION)
STEPHEN C. O’CONNELL (WHO WAS HE?)
IMPEACHED AND DEFIANT (NIXON WON’T LEAVE)
NAUGHTY OR NICE (WATERGATE CHRISTMAS)
1973: A YEAR LIKE NO OTHER (TO REMEMBER OR MOURN?)
THE GAINESVILLE 8 (HOMEGROWN MILITANTS)
STORM IS RISING (THE END IS NEAR)
NIXON BURNING (PROTEST SCREAMING)
SAY GOODBYE DICK (RESIGNATION FINALLY)
1970 — Friendly Fire
• Kent State (Vietnam Goes to College)
1971 — Insurrection Day
• Apollo 14 / Moon Tree
1972 — Gainesville Rising
• Gainesville Rising
• GAINESVILLE SCREAMING
• George Wallace (Let’s Not Stay Together)
1973 — Independence Day
• O’Connell Resigns
• Who was Stephen C. O’Connell?
• Nixon Won’t Leave
• Naughty or Nice (Watergate Christmas List)
• A Year to Remember and Mourn
1974 — GoodBye Dick
• Homecoming 1974 Mix
• The Gainesville 8
• Storm Is Rising
• Nixon No More
• Nixon Resigns
1975 — Living in Sin
1976 —
1977 —
1978 —
1979 — Looking Back Before Forward
1980 — Miracles, Miami, and Murder
1981 — MTV and a Return to Space
1982 — Saturday In The Park (NYC)
• Shelter from the Nuclear Storm (DC)
1983 —