SELAH 1986

Presented by

Rosemarie Bateman, Editor

Deborah L McSwain, Editor

Tim Isaacson, Photo Editor

Todd Peck, Staff Assistant

Prof. Dick Bohrer, Advisor

Colophon:

The 1986 SELAH, the yearbook of Liberty University, Volume 13 was prepared by Journalism labs 200 and 400 of Liberty University at Lynchburg,Virginia Thepressrunfor the 1986SELAH was 6000copiesat 369pages, Thebook sizeis9"x 12".

The 1986 SELAH was printed by HerffJones Yearbooks,Inc. ofGettysburg, Pa., using offset Lithography.MillerTP 38 and MillerFP 38 offsetperfectorpresseswere used

All halftones are 150-line ellipitical dot screen as four color was achieved bythedirectscreencolor separation method

All photographs were individually analyzed forhighlight and shadow densityand shotindividually Interior pages were printed on one hundred pound Bordeaux gloss paper stock.The endsheets are one hundred pound cover stock textured ivory EX 10.

Thecoveris 160pt, PrinterBinders Board The binding isSmyth sewn, rounded and backed with reinforcedcrashclothbackingandcoloredheadbands BasecovermaterialcolorisBlack#1075withapplied foil stamp gold #F2 on frontlid and spine.Cover design was prepared by the SELAH staff.Divider pages areprintedon 100pound Bordeaux paperstock usingflat black inkand spot varnish.

Typography for the 1986 SELAH was from the Avant Garde family, using OCR digitized typesetting on RC paper Body copy was setin10 on 12Avant Garde Book and captions were set in 8 on10 Avant Garde demi-italic Subheads were set in 18 on 20 Avant Garde demi and Mainheadsweresetin36on 38 Avant Garde demi. Division heads were set in30 on 32 Avant Garde demi.

Individual student portraits were taken by Bob DeVaul ofLibertyUniversity's "Picture Place." All other photography was taken by SELAH staffphotographers and processed by the photo editor

Ihete's Something >outa Mouse s

ELAH 1986presentsLiberty ^ University's littlepeople — ^ L students,faculty,staff — who day by day intrigue a watching world (and. perhaps, themselves) as they worship and study, work and play together

Once , ina small town in southern Virginia, an outspoken preacher saidhewasgoingtobuildauniversity. Some people laughed. They wroteletterstotheeditor making fun ofhim They called him a fanatic.

Undaunted, he invited some teachers and students to the small town to start a small school. They carried Bibles. They lived in old hotels The men wore ties. Then, viatelevision and radio, the preacher toldtheworld he was goingto build a university. The people laughed. They called the schoola monastery,not a university.

By 1985-86, the school had 47 buildingsand more than 6,000 students. Some people were still writingletters totheeditor Theworldwasstillskeptical. But nobody was laughing anymore. The small school in the small town insouthern Virginia had become a university.

Since its beginning,Liberty University has been half school, half construction site.And this year was no exception. Dustcovered, jean-clad construction hands mingled with theLiberty brights — all clean cut, well dressed. Yellow bulldozers uncovered great fields of red clay Building materials lay about campus — fiberglass insulation, ceiling tile,multi-colored wiring, acres of bricks, great spindles of wire

Half a parking lot was fenced off to store supplies already here. Parades of trucks lumbered in piles of gravel, sand, cement,and plaster. Longflatbed trailersmaneuvered huge girders under a towering,birdlikecrane.

In a way, it was a fitting environment because the building of structures outside served to remind people of another kind of building going on inside where in room afterroom construction workers with degrees lay brick on brick

What did they build in 1985?

The 13,400 sq ft Arthur S DeMoss Learning Center,housinga library, a bookstore,faculty offices and classrooms.

The two-story Hancock Athletic Center, housing athletic offices, lockerrooms, atraining room, and a weight room.

Fourthree-storydormitories, housing 1,080 students

An expanded cafeteria seating 350.

A telecommunications production area with three televisionstudies, a video-editing facility, and a master control transmitter for a four-channel, closed circuitsystem.

A redesigned inner courtyard with a fountain,52flags, and a large area for outdoor eating.

A grasssoccerfield and two football practicefields

Plans for the summer of 1986 include breaking ground on:

An indoor Olympic swimming pool

A second floor on the DeMoss Learning Center

At leastone new dormitory

Whether it's Dr Sumner Wemp teaching Evangelism inDeMoss lecture hall161orstudentsstrolling the Courtyard's golden walkway orSharon Morrow waiting fora sandwich inSAGA'S newdeli, Liberty life crams work andstudy and play intothe secondsand minutes and hoursbetween dawn and dark

Now, after the buildings were built,the campus had to be rearranged; and, when studentsreturned — expectingto findthingswherethey'd always been — they freaked out. The library!The bookstore!The records office!They were gone. The whole campus had been scrambled likean egg

Here's what changed: HealthServicesmoved from Dorm 20 to the bookstore to make room for Business Division offices.The bookstore moved to DeMoss.

WLBU Radio sportsinformation and communications faculty moved out of General Ed to make room for the new cafeteria.Faculty went toDeMoss, Sports Information went to a trailer and then to Hancock,WLBU went defunctuntil itmoved to where the library used tobe. Library moved into DeMoss.

Management Info moved to

Liberty'sfruitbasket moved TVRfrom General Edbuilding to oldlibrary (above left), library to DeMoss (top), and doctor's office to old bookstore SAGA replaced faculty officeswith S deliandseating for 1500 the second floor of Admin where Admissions used to be Personneland Institutional Relations moved downstairs. Admissions went to Religion Hall where it joined Records and Advising.

TVR studentscaught the challenge ofLUSLLL and ran with it Bill Kramer (right) turns to consulthis director David Young (bottom left) onangle andfocus;Mike Racanelli (beside Dave)checks audio levels while Deva Singh (middle) types words on the character generator.Besidehim, Don Schofield andBill Hawkins check the iris and scopes.Totheirrightthrough a window, Drs. Ron Sauer andEdDobson study theirnotes before filminganinterview.

Journalismlabmoved to DeMoss in January from Science Hall and gottwo new rooms — a composing room and a dark room

Student Lounges moved from Dorms 13 and 23 to DeMoss to make room for expanded laundry facilities and classrooms.

Dorm 2 got a laundry room and a Missions office.

Student Affairs got a new office in DeMoss Security, after its building burned down last spring, moved to the house where Nursing was Nursing moved intoDeMoss

Halls andstairs come alive when Education majors Sharon Sickler and friend (left) create panelsfor hot-air balloons.Monica Perry (farleft) muses on rail near newfreshman dorms.Lisa and Nick Reiehenback,Donna Wilson and MarshallSuplee (middleright) decorate a hallplanter in DeMoss ChrisGudmundson stridesbetween stairs as hecrossesravine

Using full-time and telemarketing recruiters for the first time, Liberty was able to attract a record 2,848 new students.Totalenrollment, including the School of LifeLong Learning, reached 6,929. Thirty new faculty members were hired,which brought the total to204.

The staggering enrollment figuresshowed how far Liberty had come in14years— from a ragged band ofChristian revolutionaries in 1971 to a fullfledged army of flaming zealots by 1985-86

The firstfew days of school were hectic Butstaffers came up withsome creative solutions to theirbig number problems: 'They put up 150 freshmen atthenearby Hilton andHarvey's motel for a few days until thenew dorms werefinished.

"They allowed 20021-yearolds to move offcampus

All inall, it was a good year

We managed togetthrough the red clay — how rapidly thatturned togreen grassand white-stripedblacktop We relishedtheeasy chairs and sofas that spanned the halls of DeMoss. We finally saw a face we'd seen before but not till the end of October And we gotoverthe embarrassmentof having to ask a freshman to findoutwhere ouradvisor's officehad gone

We wroteourletters seeking sponsors forour 11-milewalk

W e cheered our soccer team into thetoptenof NCAA DivisionTwo. We stretched our minds, our budgets, and our faithforanotheryear.

And when it was allsaid and done, we wondered how we had done somuch.But— then again — we didn'tdo it alone.

God was in it

DolphBell

Libertyis people enjoying people whether enmasse in DeMoss lounge (right) ortwo bytwo (Greg Reaand ChristyDodge,farright) (Bill Kramer and SusieSistrunk besidefountain) or one byone (DelbertJones)