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Show PAGES PAGE 9 UNIVERSITY JOURNAL FOCUS ON: THE PAST TWO DECADES • THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21 ,1999 Memories of the '80s days live on University changes in the '80s BY TERISUE SMITH JOURNAL STAFF WRITER tapes of your favorite group. Remember when Nintendo didn't have a 64 attached to the end of it, and Sony Playstation didn't exist? "Duck Hunt" and "Super Mario Brothers· were the hottest games in town to play on your little gray Nintendo with the small, unexciting hand-held controls. When a Nintendo couldn't be found , you headed off to the local video arcade to play "Hogan's Alley." "Pacman." or · a-Bert." You snacked on Doritos and Oreos. made my days happy," commented Suzie Petrucci. a sophomore dance and sociology major from Sandy. There was an attempted assassination of · 1 loved the crimped hair and side ponytails," President Ronald Reagan, computers were said Amy Jacobs, a freshman undecided major becoming a household item and the Space from Cedar City. Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after In the 1980s, every girl knew what BSC stood lrftoff, killing seven astronauts. for and tried at least once to start a BabyBut these historical events aren't what most sitter's Club of her own. She watched Full SUU students remember about the 1980s. Most House with her friends, wishing she could be as recall a simple decade filled with childhood cool as DJ. She dreamed that someday days of ice cream "Charles· would be in cones, action charge of her figures and dolls. Most SUU students "Life was easy said they feel positive as a kid in the about the '80s ·sos: said Nevin "I hked not having to Alderman, a match and listening to freshman taking the New Kids on the general education Block," said Jessica courses from wakefield , a senior Kanab, Utah. biology major from Salt If you were a Lake City little girl in the "The spandex was 1980s, you rolled my favorite," said Jerry out of your Care Rasmussen, a Bear bedding as sophomore computer your Cabbage science maJor from Patch kid dropped Tabiona, Utah to the floor. Then · 1 ltked the girts in you headed to the neon pink clothes. kitchen for a glass s~ud Bryan Morse a of Tang and an . freshman taking early morning :t biology maior from episode of ~ Monroe. Utah Smurf's. With Q The cartoons of the Punky Brewster as ffi '80s could possibly go your role model, 5 down in history as you dressed in ~ classics Alv111 and the splatter-painted j Chipmunks. Care Jeans, slouch ~ Bears. Chip 'n' Dale socks, and a puff. ~ Rescue Rangers, Shepainted shirt You Ra, Darkwmg Duck, laced up your L.A Amanda Armstrong, a sophomore psychology major from Sandy (left), and Trisha Bailey, a senior Talespin. Flintstones. Gear shoes while English ma1or from West Valley City, dress as they remember the '80s, with side pony tails, ·claw" Scooby-Doo. The playing with the bangs. large hoop earrings, turned up collars and gelly bracelets. Jetsons, Super Mario little keycha1n that Brothers, The Pink came free with them Rainbow Brite lunch box McDonald's cooked your favorite food. On Panther, G I Joe, Heathcliff. and Tom and in hand, you skipped off to school with your hair special occasions, you went down to Showbiz Jerry. in a crimped, side ponytail and fluorescentpizza, · where a kid can be a kid.· You wanted "He-man was my favorite," said Shane colored fingernails snapping to the sounds of to drink New Coke because they watched the Armstrong, a freshman forestry major from The New Kids on the Block. cool Max Headroom c0mmerc1als. M&M's didn't Payson. Utah As a boy in the '80s. you woke up under your come in green or blue and you begged your Radios were filled with the sweet sounds of He-Man sheets after dreaming of someday mom to get the sparkly · crest for Kids" Whitney Houston, Madonna, Alabama , Huey becoming Hulk Hogan. You quickly tossed- your toothpaste in the new pump. Lewis and the News, Bryan Adams, Bruce My Buddy or Teddy Ruxpin under your bed Summer days were spent playing on the 819 Springsteen, Phil Collins, Ann Wilson, Cyndi because it wasn't cool to sleep with a doll. After Toy at the local elementary school and making Lauper and Jack Wagner throwing on your Ghostbuster T-shirt and delicious snow-cones with your Snoopy Snow"I liked the music of the ·sos-Journey, Swatch watch, you spiked your hair and set it cone Machine. You raced around on your BMX Chicago and U2," said Matt Sudwe~ks, a with some mousse You then put your Trapper bike or Barbie roller-skates, and played Skip-it freshman physical education and sports Keeper into your E T backpack and walked to in the driveway. medicine maior from Sandy school while playing with your Transformer On rainy days, you played indoor games such The movies were also popular entertainment The after-school hours brought episodes of as Trivial Pursuit, Candy Land, Mouse Trap, of the ·sos Rocky IV The Empire Strikes Back, Double Dare, Webster. Saved by the Bell and Clue, and Hungry, Hungry Hippos The Return of the Jedi, WJ1ite Nights Iron Eagle, Fragg/e Rock You spent hours perfecting your invention of the pop-a-mat,c bubble was, in your Rambo, Goonies, Back to the Future. Lite-Brite. In you Ohver and Company coloring eyes, the discovery of the year You wondered if Nightmare on Elm Street and Pee. Wee book. you colored with your 64-pack Crayola the Trix rabbit would ever get his Tnx, and if Herman 's Great Adventure hit the big screen Crayons with that neat sharpener in the back Lucky would ever find all his Charms "I liked the '80s because Guts Just Want to You charged your Gia-Worm so ,t would stay lit Evenings as a child of the '80s brought family Have Fun came out," remarked Angie all night long. You played with your collection of time in front of the television Reruns of Love Mortensen, a junior psychology major from Transformers. Ptaymobiles, My Little Ponies, or , Boat were followed by The Cosby Show, Miami Payson, Utah. Strawberry Shortcakes. Barbie and her new Vice, Moonlighting, MacGyver, Growing Pains. Back to the Future and Dirty Dancing, were pals, Jem and the Rockers were stylrsh "Sike" Dynasty, Who's the Boss, Family Ties, and the '80s favorites of Ben Cox, a freshman and · radical" were words in your daily Simon & Simon. elementary education major from Hurricane vocabulary. Girts definitely got the better end of fashion in Although news events were important. the You danced with your friends to the music of the '80s. Every girt had Jelly shoes and popular culture of the 1980s 1s what sticks in Vanilla Ice, and rapped to M.C. Hammer and bracelets. She wore her hair up in a banana the memories of most SUU students. Michael Jackson was the coolest guy around clip, tied her shirt in the corner with a buckle, Perhaps Amy Smith, a freshman elementary You spent hours perfecting your moonwalk and had a slap-on bracelet on her wrist, and education major from Beaver summed it up breakdance techniques to impress the kids at fashionably wore tights under her shorts. best when she said, "The best part of the '80s school. You saved your money to buy cassette · 1 liked the multi-colored socks because they is that they were full of stress-free childhood BY DEBORAH PERRY JOURNAL STAFF WRITER many ways it will mark a new era for the college and for southern Utah." The school colors for SUSC also became an issue The 1980s were a time of florescent colors in makeup during 1983. Sl)SC school colors had changed several and clothes, the cold war was in full swing and SUU was times during its life time. When it was the Branch Southern Utah State College. Noramal School the colors were red and white. When it A smattenng of what happened on campus during this became the BAC in 1913, the colors changed to azure decade include the marching band receiving White blue and white to match the Utah State Agricultural · House guard uniforms, a new special event center was College. planned and finished, school colors changed, the After Utah State changed to navy and white. BAC USSR/USA Goodwill tour was held on campus, a new followed suite. When the BAC achie.ved independent incredibly sensitive fire alarm system was installed and status, the colors were changed to turquoise and coral. Gerald R. Sherratt became the president of SUSC. In 1980, the colors were changed to Columbia blue In 1980 the SUSC marching band received a generous and white with orange trim. In early September 1983, a donation of White House guard uniforms. The uniforms color change to scarlet and white with royal blue as the were reJected by the White House for being to European. accent color was recommended. The vote was. The uniforms which were tailored to fit six-feet tall, unanimous in favor of the change. _ physically fit members of the armed services, were then A humorous situtation developed at SUSC after the fitted to the band members. Despite the difficulties installation of a $65,000 fire alarm system. The system presented by the uniforms, they were used for the next became immediately infamous for being too sensitive. six seasons Dust from a floor being swept or steam fro.m cooking On Dec 15, 1981 , Gerald R Sherratt, vice president for carrots set the alarm shrieking through the Manzanita university relations at Utah State University, became the residence halls. Car exhaust also triggered the alarm. 13th president of SUSC . His induction ceremony Over the Thanksgiving break, a frustrated student featured film stars, local dignitaries and past SUSC disconnected the wires to the system with his presidents pocketknife. The campus police didn't press any In his speech, Sherratt said, · so let this institution qare charges. . to dedicate itself to the highest ideals of advanced The flags of the USSR and the USA flew above the scholarship, to become a prime example of the academic Centrum on Wednesday, April 29, 1987. It was an ngor and intellectual capacity for which every college ·historic USA/USSR Goodwill Tour. The town warmly stnves-but not all attain. Let SUSC be a campus whose welcomed the Russian athletes for "Western Days • For love for the intellectual ltfe 1s reflected in all it does.· most, it was their first experience in America and with the The year 1982 heralded the beginning of a new building American West. The spokesperson for the Russians said, "When proiect SUSC set a goal to raise S1 1 million in donations for a new special events center. Gifts for the people heard they always ask me, 'Where 1s Cedar center included a $15,000 building lot, a $60,000 home, City?' Now I know what to tell them. Here, we found real a corporate gift of $45,000, a, S50 000 gift from an America. I have meet people who are handsome They anonymous donor and a $1 500 donation from a former • are courageous They are friends. I am very impressed." school teacher There were many interesting events that took place The state granted SUSC $2 .5 m1llton for the events during the 1980s. One of the most significant is that in center, S3 2 millton for the General Classroom Building, 1989 SUSC and Weber State College began to petition the Board of Regents to change from college to S1 5 million to make the.heating plant into a coal burning university status. This petition encountered serious fac1hty and $100,000 to !enovate the science building in 1983. arguments from other established universities tn the Mike Richards, assistant to the president, said, "Of state. However, the petitioners were not deterred. So, SUSC was able to become Southern Utah University. course we're dehghted about the building projects. In Spencer Koe/liker. a sophomore business major from Sandy, and ~o~~ ,Meyer, a physicar education major from Las Vegas, Nev. , demonstrate wha_t s m for guys today. Simplicity and comfort are the themes: baseball caps, T-shirts a~d variations of styles in jeans are common. Partly bleached and dyed hair and short haircuts are popular with both men and women. Growth continues to. be the theme in this decade At the height of fashion ... Amy Meffill, a sophomore communication major from Layton, Utah, exhibits typical fash;on for the '90s. Some of the clothing and accessories that are popular for SUU's young women are butterfly hair clips and small barrettes, fitted stretchy pants, capris-length pants, baby 'T's, three-quarter-length sleeve shirts and spaghetti strap tank tops. The ball-chain necklace and co/or-tinted sunglasses (right) are popular among both men and women. • Unlike the '80s where Girbaud, Guess. LA. Gear. Espirit and z. Cavaricci were the essential name brands, today name brands aren't as important as ·the look." However. some brands that many students wear are Old Navy, Gap, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Polo/Ralph Lauren. Many world history-making events occured in the last two decades. The Challenger space ship exploded in 1986, CDs outsold vinyl for the first time ever in 1988 and the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 and communism dissolved in Germany. The last decade of the century began with the ending of the Cold War and McDonald's opening a restaurant in Moscow. "Latch-key kids" became a new worry for society, the Persian Gulf war erupted in 1991 , cell phones and e-mail invaded America and, of course, in the middle of the decade, the Internet stretched across the world, connecting millions of lives and has almost becomE;; a staple of life. These world events are very familiar to SUU students, as all have lived on the Earth during these decades. But what may not be as well known are some of the history making events that occured in the 1990s at the university. On Dec. 31 , 1990, the university held one of the largest celebrations ever to commemorate the name change of SUSC to SUU , which was to occur exactly at midnight that night The events of the celebration were spread over a 48-hour period and began with the unveiling of the new sign proclaiming the name Southern Utah University. In 1992 the university announced that the new academic service center would be called the R. Haze Hunter Conference Center, D'EI Beatty returned to SUU and solidified the showchoir Acclamation, and on the 94th anniversary of the school, former President Royden C. Braithwaite Building passed away, just three months after the liberal arts building was named after hirri. In '93, SUU had received the needed funding to build the new library, which gave many reason to rejoice. The building was completed and named the Gerald R. Sherratt Library in 1996. Meanwhile the construction of the new student center was well underway. In the spring of '93, SUU received a quiet donation of $2.5 million from a family whose children had loved their own expanding experiences at the university. Then on May 2. 1996, President announcement that the new Sherratt made complex, which included the Centrum, would be named the Sharwan Smith Center, after an · outstanding student leader;· who had died in an automobile accident the year of her graduation . · SUU reached its 100th anniversity in 1997 and Sherratt, who had guided the university for the previous 15 years, retired and Steven D. Bennion filled his place. an. .. . |