Abstract
It was 1949. World War II was over. The edu cation bill for returning GIs had been passed. Vet erans crowded college campuses, snubbing exist ing student dress codes and, by refusing to wear freshman beanies, defying freshman hazing ritu als. Universities, swamped with students, struggled to find housing and classrooms. At the University of Oklahoma, existing facilities at nearby closed military bases were pressed into service. Some military buildings served as housing and others for research space. The old armory building on cam pus earlier had been converted into a museum and archaeological storeroom, which overflowed with completed and partially completed archaeologi cal projects left by the sudden closing of the Works Projects Administration (WPA) at the be ginning of the war. America's zeal to return to long-delayed con struction projects, placed on hold for the dura tion, pumped millions of dollars into massive res ervoir projects. Anthropology departments were scarce (there was only one in Oklahoma at the time), and many college students had never heard the word anthropology. If fellow students asked, What is your major?, when answered?anthro pology?they might respond with an incredu lous?Yeah?! The more curious would ask, What's that?
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