American University - Talon / Aucola Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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this then is the au student almost with the mainstream of today ' s collegians confused yet confident curious yet convinced there are more of them and they are better looking better educated better prepared than any of his predecessors caught in the middle of the ibm syndrome he is number 261298445 he is also himself a person an individual and it is this conflict not viet nam not the police that he is most desperately trying to solve his kicks are getting harder to find much harder he has been shoved helter-skelter into the mass grave of academe and is trying valienty to surface to find himself as it where he ' s not lost just misplaced and he is looking into himself and not to paris to find his answers

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71967 71967 71967 71967 71967 71967 71967 71967 71967 71967 71967 71967 71967 71967 71967 71967 71967 71967 71967 71967 71967 a year 365 days a complete revolution of the earth around the sun a thin slice of eternity mans attempt to measure the immeasurable a few brief moments one sixtieth of a lifetime a series of memories not to be forgotten and wished we could forget each one unique yet each one the same 1967 like the years that came before and the years that will come an insignificant little portion of time in the history of the universe as well as a major milestone in each individuals lifetime it is the year of graduation of failing out of beer parties of the first date of marriage of death it is as meaningful to each by virtue of its contents it is the year for a nearly achieved basketball victory red china is wracked by civil war and riots it is a year in which more americans than ever are killed in Vietnam while the campus is convulsed with controversy over the banning of the university sale of the underground newspaper of pope paul ' s constant plea for peace and au ' s constant entreaties for money it is a year when a coffee house is set up at school while the great society comes to a grinding halt after its practioners suffer severe attacks at the polls it is a year of lunar probes of disaster in space of reversal in battles of cures for disease of life and death a year full of hope and frustration delight and dispair it was a year like all years