North Central College - Spectrum Yearbook (Naperville, IL)

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Battering the self-erected bars. The search for understanding, for reconciliation Pulls some of us toward New York- March for Peace, for Protest, for Love. For others- 345 per day . . . And what is Love? And,just as it all gets almost too big, almost too powerful We retreat again to the security ofa little world, Concise, well-defined, self-created- Where the boundaries are limited to our capabilities A flurry of elections- 'gFull of sound and fury, signifying . . . ??? Baseball, tennis, swimming, track-

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throb of music or noise, Momentarily drowned out by a dance of hearts, a New Dimension- the 3-D's dimension of enthusiasm, participation. WUS Qstill only partially understood or acknowledgedj was: A faculty talent show, surprise, amusement, disappointment Qwell, how did he know what card it was??D A mid-week dance, decorated by the splendor of extended hours. An auction, for the most valuable of the invaluables. Rehearsals for the musicals permeate the night, Panicking for mid-terms permeates the dorms, Packing for vacation permeates the dreams. But even a crammed calendar, An activity-riddled existence, Never completely stiHe the mental torment: The all-powerful Why- Tongue-twister of the mind. A semester of issues, ofideas Has been forming in many of us- ConHict looked for or created As we struggle to grasp reality- To reconcile the wish and the is. Keating and Kilpatrick- two weights on the teetering balance, And our own Right and Left are challenged, questioned, realigned. I james Meredith- aura of greatness and power, vaporized by the reality of situation. And suddenly, the problem has become less one of race, Than of communication- of listening. A Coffee-Hour of imprisoned minds, 28

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a spurt of enthusiasm, devotion, determination. The Year That Was- As created by us, Yet, the little world that canlt remain hemmed in. Ecumenical worship, the demands of freedom again trespassing on our security. And the ecumenical demands of worship Spread by ecumenical demands of experience- The richness and passion ofa Spanish tragedy Taxing our emotions, our response, The mystery of poetry, Broken for some by Nemerov- fat? 3 Btu ,XX