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

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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

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A as rain soaks the previously dry pavement clouds of steam rise from the remnants of a long hot summer and over 1550 students cram into clendenen and leonard for the first day creating caterpillar-like lines for an au institution registration still the numbers game 21 9481 46536243621 038206790 with an added anxiety on closely shaven faces as they approach the selective service booth and closed courses producing oh my god what am i going to do now expressions on the already-strained faces of students fifteen minutes after the circus opens the au student drowns himself in a surfeit of minutiae while a man with half a billion believers imparts a plea for peace in Vietnam the anxiety-ridden faces turn his way 27