A look backward in time through the yellowing pages of newsprint archives shows what The Daily and the UW looked like 25 years ago this month.

The sign on the door into Meany Hall, home of the UW Dance Division, pretty much said it all.

"It's a reduction to the proportion that all introductory classes will not be offered. It's part of the overall reductions in the University," Richard L. Lorenzen, associate arts dean explained.

Talk around Meany the last few days has centered on whether the Dance Division is on its last legs, and whether the most recent class reductions are just another falling domino. Many dance classes were cut for the '81-'82 academic year, said Joan Skinner, acting Dance Division Chairman.

Two years ago, the division lost the residency of Bill Evans Dance Company due to a lack of funds.

Eve Green, longtime dance chairman, retired last December.

Now, under Skinner, the division is struggling to retain its reputation.

"We hope to offer the beginning classes in the evening through the Extension Program, but we haven't talked to them yet," Skinner explained. "Our concern is to survive, not to disappear from the face of the earth, and hopefully to build the program back up in the future."