••'. , '.><r. Reflections OHIO UNIVERSITY -uC^K' REFLECTIONS Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Lyrasis IVIembers and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/athena88ohio The Athena Ohio University Athens, Ohio 45701 Volunne 88 Student Interests Student Life Issues Academics Sports Qreef^s Student Organizations Seniors 2 • TABLE OF CONTENTS The Athena yearbook reflects the attitude, atmosphere and soda climate of the university and the year. All aspects of student life, from classes to Uptown, are captured here, keeping the spirit of Ohio University 1 993 alive for decades. TABLE OF CONTENTS • 3 Reflections OHIO UNIVERSITY ERIC LOCSDON ABOVE LEFT: Rain and umbrellas on Morton ABOVE: Jim Melone and Mark E. Marquis share Hill show what the typical Athens weather is like, warm thoughts while strolling down E. Union LEFT: A lonely serenading guitarist celebrates Street, one of the few nice winter days. KEVIN KRECK 4 • OPENING RIGHT: Betsy Friedlander and her dog Marlee await her book-buying friend. BELOW: Kevin Jeray serves coffee to students as they diligently study for midterms al Another Fool's Cafe. ERIC LOCSDON ABOVE: Reflections of Biddle Hall on East Green. OPENING • 5 College Green RtTJL^ MONUMENT KEVIN KRECK ABOVE: A student rests in the shade of a tree on College Green. ERIC LOCSDON ABOVE: Seniors eat lunch and chat in the sun- shine of College Green, a pleasant alternative to uptown restaurants and dining halls. RIGHT: Three long-haired retrievers investigate crevices in the brick paths and walk their owner, junior Julia Lane. 6 • COLLEGE GREEN LEFT: Curious students use the monument as a vantage point tocatchaglimpse of Hillary Clinton. Little did they know she would be the next First Lady. ERIC LOCSDON ABOVE: Junior James Anzelmo keeps on top of his studies while catching some rays. LEFT: Brother Jed uses the College Green to try to reach students with his religious views. Jed always attracts a crowd with his flamboyant style of preaching. COLLEGE GREEN • 7 ^ands Legends Students Money Campus CoupCes "Et cetera 8 • STUDENT INTERESTS Studenjt Interests REFLECTIONS From hanging out Uptown to painting the wall near Richland Avenue, students left reflections of themselves in Athens. STUDENT INTERESTS • 9 Juke box alternatives by Amy Mollis Most students headed Uptown on weekends to go dancing, or drinking—or both. Others hung out to the accompaniment of a jukebox or DJ. but many more hiked uptown to see their favorite local bands play at bars like the Dugout, the Union and O' Hooley " s. Kristin Hale, freshman, said she preferred to see live perfor- mances. "It's louder, more real and more tangible," she said. "I like seeing the people, watching the dancing—especially at a more hard-core show, with the pit." Hale said she attended several bar performances throughout the year, includina the Snapdragons and Big Red Truck. For the students that wanted to hear several groups play, the University Program Council sponsored "OUPalooza" at the Nick- elodeon fall quarter. Like the original "Lollapalooza," OUPalooza featured a diverse spectrum of bands ranging from local rappers and R&B groups to full-blown rock and roll. Although area bands dominated OUPalooza and the live music scene in Athens, many favorites such as the Snapdragons and Royal Crescent Mob traveled to Southeast Ohio to perform. Oroboros, a Cleveland-based group, also made several trips to play locally. Jim Miller, the band's lead guharist and vocalist, said he enjoyed playing at OU because he felt at home. "We have a lot of friends here and have had some wild experiences. We love Athens." Miller said. UPC also worked to bring more nationally-known groups to OU, such as R.C. Mob and Dread Zeppelin. They Might Be Giants fans also got a pleasant surprise when UPC announced that the group's tour would include a stop in Athens in October. But the Giants' performance at Memorial Auditorium left fans with mixed feelings. Jennifer Agricola, a freshman, said, "Overall I was a little disappointed after the concen because they didn't perf'orm as well as I expected them to, although the encore was excellent." But others, like Freshman Erik Laursen, disagreed with Agricola. "They Might Be Giants rocked...! expected the show to be a lot more laid back. I was very pleased that the concert was so different sounding from the albums. It added a whole new dimension to their music." The Giants concert eased the campus" poor record of attracting national acts to the area. UPC Concert Chairwoman Kathy Fertara said some major problems with getting big names included audi- ence size and the cost of renting various campus facilities. "I would like to see the university build a thousand-seat facility that (UPC) wouldn't have to rent," she said. I However, the prospect of the university shelling out money for concert facilities did not seem likely as tuition and expenses continued to rise. So until someone finds a way to entice more big- name national bands to campus, music lovers always have the alternative of checking out fresh acts Uptown. -^ ERIC L0C5D0N 10 •STUDENT INTERESTS 1 STUDENT INTERESTS • 1 Pentagrams and poltergeists, stories thrive on campus by Alison Shaw Furthermore, university records and county property deeds revealed that a plot of land on West Green originally held a graveyard site Superstition and folklore traditionally played an important role maintained by the Athens State Mental Hospital. Wilson Hall, the in the culture of small, rural towns where generations of families sight of rumored ghosts, rested on top of this ancient grave yard. passed on land and stories about it year after year. By sophomore year, almost every student knew the details of at Thrown into the middle of Athens" tradition and lore. OU least one rumor concerning Wilson Hall. The most popular one provided an old college campus, which mixed traditions and stories involved a female student who slit her wrists, but somehow mustered with a crowd of young, intrigued students who created a large the strength to paint a bloody dragon on the ceiling. The painting haunting of their ow n every Halloween. Many of these students supposedly reappeared despite the university" s efforts to clean it. opened their eyes and ears to anything exciting and extraordinary. Rumor held that university officials turned the room into a storage While students and Athens residents passed around tales of their room, because of reports of ghosts and strange occurrences. own. professional groups and individuals throughout the world Records showed that hauntings reportedly took place in Wilson recognized Athens as a center point for the spirits. Hall, but nothing revealed a suicide. The hauntings began in 428 The British Society for Psychic Research labeled Wilson Hall, where bricks and jars of Noxema began .Athens as one of the most haunted places on pfOSTGry flinging themselves across the room in the early earth." Ig'JOs. According to stories in an Alden Li- In the late 1970s, the university brary file known as the "spook file." a closed down Wilson Hall because of • book in the Athens Library listed -^ lowerenrollment. While the building Peach Ridae Cemetery as the 13th „ ~ '^ remained empty, three reporters most haunted place in the world spent the night in room 428 and Other articles called it the 1 3th /-\ roamed around the fourth floor most haunted in the country. O Q without finding traces of ghosts. Willhelm Reich, an 1850s O o spirits, or poltergeists. In the spiritualist, predicted that af- ^ room of a former resident ter the fall of the world, the —^ assistant, who took an interest area surrounding .-Xthens will ^ in the spiritual world, they rise. Many people linked this ~< found a ""not-so-scary"" dragon prediction to one of Athens" • painted on the wall in red. The infamous tales, a story con- r~\ reporters had interviewed the cerning a rumor about the five ^ RA a few weeks before, so the paths on the College Green. O suicide/dragon rumor seemed Rumors claimed that each ^ a bit unlikely. path pointed directly to a cem- Since Wilson Hall re- etery in Athens, which spaced opened, it has housed males and themselves so symmetrically that females of all class ranks. Adrienne when connected, they formed a perfect inverted pentagram. This Oberth. a sophomore, lived on the fourth floor of Wilson. ""I haven't pentagram supposedly offered the place of eternal safety, referred to seen anything to confirm (the hauntings)."" she said. ""I haven"t heard by Reich. any spooky noises or flying objects."" Athens Police Officer Ronald K. Brooks said that in his 27 years Most Wilson Hall residents agreed with Oberth. and seemed as a resident, he never had seen documentation of the rumored content with their living conditions. After an inspection of the pentagram. However, a rough sketch in the ""spook file" linked premises, however, sophomore Lisa Eidam reported that the room together five of the nearly 50 area cemeteries to form a pentagon. numbers skipped from 426 to 429. She said nobody lived in these Some sources located all five cemeteries along Peach Ridge, rooms and they did not have numbers on their doors. while others failed even to mention the cemeteries" names. The two While some students passed off these stories as superstition and most mentioned cemeteries. Sims cemetery and Hanning cemetery, rumors, others grasped for spiritual knowledge by visiting grave- claimed ghost stories of their own concerning natural rock forma- yards, holding seances, and playing with Ouija boards. tions, old trees, seances, and hauntings. The Rev. Bekki Shining Bear-Heart, co-ow ner of Horsefeathers. The most intriguing detail of the pentagram story, however, 22 Palmer St.