University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Serving students with varied backgrounds and levels of preparation with different career and personal aspirations, The University exposed students to a prismatic assortment of character types. PREFACE TO SOCIETY Deo volente, omnia fieri possunt. Let those who have ears, hear and those with eyes, see and not lack understanding. David Phillips Plan II Senior ODE TO POLITICS Of all the campus political I ' ve met in eight years at UT, the only one I ever felt I could trust was Hank T. Hallucination. And a final message to all you politicos who took Hank too seriously: If you can ' t take a joke ... John Denson Graduate School In the fall of 1982 UT students voted to reinstate the Students ' Association. A key to appreciating campus politics in the spring of 1983 was observing the curious blend of candidates and cynics and wondering what the potency of the new mixture would be. WEST MALL This University has given me the opportunity to reach out and really test myself, a challenge many individuals never experience in a lifetime. Quartus P. Graves III Business Senior From Israelis defending their homeland to the Texas Cowboys selling barbecue tickets, the West Mall was an open for um for ideas. THE DRAG The University and the diversity of people here have provided me with opportunities far beyond my imagination. Jorge Becerra Liberal Arts Senior Extending from Martin Luther King Blvd. to 26th Street, the section of Guadalupe Street known as the Drag offered students an eclectic collection of established merchants, street vendors and transients. 102 Images of 1983

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LAYING THE GROUNDWORK I found out who I am and what I want in my future. Only half of my education came in the classroom. UT showed me how to handle the world. Bradley Saint -Laurent Communications Junior A flawless blue sky with the temperature hovering around 80 degrees it was a UT kind of day and students took to the outdoors to study. According to an institutional study, the fundamental role of The University was to provide teaching and research programs that would enable undergraduates and graduate students to develop the human resources of our society to their highest potential. In a practical sense, this meant attending lectures, reading texts, taking notes and studying. Then, there were moments during these mechanical processes when our curiosity would be sparked: when that we wanted to know overshadowed what we had been prescribed to learn. And, it was during times like these that we learned.