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

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■ NVDramv a irvoraawv a Mvoraanrv a wv bs- ss . ITY » the au student is changing no longer is he merely an intellectual parolee waiting out his four years in a sort of academic limbo between adolescence and adulthood he thinks now about Vietnam about the economy about civil rights about himself no longer just marking time in a degree factory he is fast catching up with the vast body of american collegians who are concerned with more than a pension secured gray flannel future and yet he is not quite part of the so-called student revolution raging on campuses from berkely to boston he like the university he attends is in a state of transition there are still those attending au who think they are merely in a post high school cooling off period before entering their split level lives but then others are concerned with more substantial thoughts like pulling out of Vietnam or ending nuclear testing or perhaps electing bobby to replace lyndon the student today is far more serious than his counterpart of the 1950 ' s much more concerned with academic virtues and less concerned with his own self-satisfaction the collegian of the last decade the decade of eisenhower and mccarthy of we ' ve never had it so good and enjoy it while it lasts of watch out for under every rock there ' s a commie and on top of every rock is a pinko of pre-fabricated everything and instant nothing concerned himself with preparing for his retirement he entered his post graduate world ready to swizzle in the martini glass of life constantly diving for the olive but winding up with a lemon peel the student of the sixties however is quite different this is the era ushered in by the promise of kennedy this is the decade of metracal and lunar probes of op and pop the tab generation and it is between these two poles that we find the au student