North Central College - Spectrum Yearbook (Naperville, IL)

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for some of us too quickly, for others, not quickly enough. Again the Union fills with half-emptied glasses, butt-smudged ashtrays, puddle-pocked floors, posters, announcements- activity. Almost without our understanding how or why, Another semester has begun. The gorged bookstore is soon depleted, books at least glanced through, class schedules refound, And the First class is begun- in childlike anticipation to see what friends, what papers, what exams . . . What the semester offers. Before it is even offthe ground, Something unique marks this semester- Characterized, perhaps, by the struggle between apathy and activity, isolation and involvement. North Central-a campus cursed with too little to do- or blessed with too much? And we complain, we demand, Yet too often knowing that the fault lies with ourselves. And the struggle for the why, the how continues, Often submerged in the ordinary events of an

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to assure us of Return. Some travel-widening our world to New York City- theatre, wonder-spun walks, memorable days, almost remembered nights. Cur College Bowl team Hickers across our TV,s- and we are proud. Washington- where political science courses become grounded in personalities, places, programs. Chicago, into a different realm of the city, where we learn to accept, to recognize our own limitations South America, making abstract language necessary reality. Some of us wandered on our own- to friends, relatives, fun, Others returned to North Central, forming a shadow ofthe totality. Seminars, Discussions- Interaction and thinking in concentration. Theater and music temporarily reconciled- An opera-drama workshop. And, for others, the bliss of oblivions- the pilgrimage through a book, an idea: Renewed in-depth contact with the almost, the unknown. And the six weeks pass- 25

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