Boston University - HUB Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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Student life provides a context for ourselves as human beings. Fortunately, as students we can perceive changes, the human thing, much more quickly. We are forced to, because four years are a finite quantity and graduation, as an end, is never far off. We seem to spend most of our time trying to extend our days and compact them with as much as we can allow ourselves. The effort is futile, but then, in a way, almost anything else can be. There is some gain in sensing futility, though. We can occasionally let go, admit to ourselves that there is a little bit of the absurd in everything. Behind all those serious, thoughtful faces there is always the little kid in us making like a gargoyle to the rest of the world. The really serious student, that special kind of human, is a doubter, a self-doubter to begin with, and a doubter of everything after that. Like an idea which has mortified into a self-sustain- ing, complacent ideology, the non-doubting, non-thinking student does not change, he does not grow. He does not live. Q 14 fsi 4, , . 'if gm, QM 'i 9 xi: ad- , V... i4i'agfstA?g . 'fr f V, s QL? .Q .ff Q' A QFJ4 , lf' 1 Q 3' , var-At, HOWARD DIRNINI

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Thought is a human conspiracy. The plot is to manifest change. We don't see it or feel it consciously, because most of the time most of us are preoccupied. When we really look, the dynamism that is always there is irresistible. What the eye sees, the mind abstracts. What is seen could remain in the mind despite our humanity. We are human, so it cannot. The urge to express and to communicate must inevitably rear its lovely head, and the rest is images. The images here are signs. They are metaphors bringing to concretion what we all perceive abstractly. They attempt to record what we humans, as students, feel is true. Freshman year, it was: Be careful, the person sitting next to you could be your spouse. A scant four years later, that warning may be no less true, but love is somewhat less tremulous and evanescent. The fellow down the hall who seemed like an idiot is now in honors, and only now do you detect the sheen of intelligence in the eyes of the one who, for four years, has moronically grinned his way through the corridors. What was a disgraceful pile of bricks and the everfamiliar leavings of bulldozers has become an audacious assertion of growth. Closer to us, perhaps more chafing, though no less assertive, are the certainly more audacious student leaders. However, the occasional raucous maunderings of a few years ago have become the articulate, fervent, protestations of youths just beginning to sense their responsibilities to humanity. Because of changes, there is a surfeit of newness. The New Left, the New Right, the new student, and the new buildings have become impacted into a force which cannot be ignored. We do not ignore them for they are founded in a basis we all share. Before we are engulfed in this storm of changes and newness, we also must not ignore the mainstay which keeps us from being lost. That mainstay is tradition. At one time tradition was change. Therefore, our sense of permanence is never more than a tenuous one. Nevertheless, established thoughts and objects become cherished. They have to be recognized and are also represented here, alongside what replaces them. Their loss is painful, perhaps to offset the pleasure of change and newness. In our own way, we are all shakers and movers. The requisite strength allows us to endure the fact of losing what had become briefly imperishable. Quite literally, we are engaged in a con- stant human struggle. Changes, which displace tradition, become tradition themselves, and again must be changed. Who are the victors, who the victims? 9