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Stepping Back in Time into Mizzou's Majors

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Come visit our exhibit on the main floor of the MU Student Center outside of the Shack. Ever wondered what students and professors used in the classroom before the technology that surrounds us today? The MU Student Center highlights the technology of the university's past through different departmental majors on campus.  The Unions would like to thank the Department of Theater, the Department of Art History and Archaeology, the School of Journalism, and the Department of Biological Sciences for loaning objects to this exhibit.   In theater students learn the ins and outs both on stage and behind stage, such as these students working the soundboard.   Savitar 1961. Check out vintage microphones from the mid-20th century and a spotlight from the 1980s. Art historians and their students learned from images projected by a glass lantern slide projector, such as this from the early 20th century.  They also had photographic reproductions of artworks mounted on matbo