By Sarah McDonough
Cardinal Staff
While flipping through Saint Mary’s University yearbooks dating back to the 1980s, students can find how student life then differed from it now. Students might expect to see the Goldie Hawn hair and the ever-stylish huge, thick-framed glasses page after page, but there are a few things that could really catch someone by surprise.
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- There was a Greek Life. At one time, SMU had eight fraternities and sororities. Some of them were TKE, Alpha Delta Gamma and Alpha Kappa Psi. Alpha Kappa Psi was a business fraternity tha was known for great parties like the annual St. Patrick’s Day party and other socials they held.
- They lived where? Some student housing that underclassman and upperclassman alike enjoyed residing in were Aquinas (renamed Vlazny), Griffin Hall, 4th floor of Saint Mary’s Hall and “The White House”- a house on campus that at one time housed six people. Students who lived off campus were referred to as O.C.O.O.Ts (Off Campus Out Of Town).
- PROM! The annual Senior-Junior Prom was held off campus and was always a big hit. One year it was held in Rochester, Minn.
- The Cardinal Club was known as The Pub. Alcohol was served there to those of age (18 years old was the legal drinking age then). It was a safe way for students to have a place to drink without going off campus. Some events that were hosted there were Irish Pub Night and Alcohol Awareness Week.
-No Cardinals here! SMU’s mascot was once the Redman.
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