Miami University - Recensio Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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Then at the beginning of the new term, the announcement was . made that Western campus might become a- department of Miami University, in- stead of the separate, interdisciplinary school that had made it unique for so many years. Students from both the main cam- pus and Westernls campus bonded to- gether to try to insure that the program would be preserved. The argument from the university, that Westernls enrollment was continually declining and was consequently losing money, lost its force when the stu- dents on campus pointed out that the university had made no effort to re- cruit for the program. But the dichs- siOn continued with no one knowing what the final outcome would be. The Western program, unique to Ohio state schools, was a plus for the university, and the faculty and stu- dents felt that it should remain as its own school instead of simply merging into the university as another depart- ment. 1 Another term began with the con- tinued hostility of the Americans on both this campus and in the entire country as the American Embassy in Iran remained in the hands of its Ira- nian captors with 52 American hos- tages scattered throughout t the confused country of Iran. The Iranian crisis touched Miami in' particular through Vic Lauterbach, a seniof hiS'. tory major, who awaited the outcome of his brother, Steve, who had become a hostage on November 4, 1979, when the Embassy was overtaken. After the initial controversy be- tween many young Americans and the government, the draft wash'reinsta- ted and all males bornsin 1960 and later were required to register. The draft involved mostof the underclass males, but the registration process continued 1n Oxford without any sig- nificant trouble. As the students, faculty and ad- ministration began to adjust to the first full year in the new decade, they prepared to vote in the national elec-i 1 Shifting Focus 5 3i

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Uetawn be age to blassom again and new businesses andfoad 5 am: opened te Suflply students and 78517- dents with a larger selectzen. , As some fans shmaafmm the third losingfaotball Mark Schultz. e I I , , h season to more successful sparts, otherfam remained , faithful although not always alert. e4 Shiftingmcus, Larry Kaufman t S ifting F ocus in f Changing Times Miami University: built on tradi- ticm, solid, sturdy, constant, continues one These few words seem to sum up , What Miami has been t0 many people on both the inside and the outside of her red brick walls since she opened her dams in 1809. But in the new dee- ade, Miami, like the rest of the coun- try, was at a height of change. And many peeple who had never seen it before, finally caught a glimpse of Miamishifting focus. t Beginning from the end of the 1979-80 term, the shifting was obvi- ous. After President Shriver an- nounced that he was stepping dawn from the presidents office after 16 years, the campus began going through an extensive search to find a new person to fill his seat.

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