Riverside College - Tequesquite Yearbook (Riverside, CA)

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Crowds Create A Mood WHEN STUDENTS gather in the Pi th, mood is usually one of good fellowship. Here Margie Noller, stirring her malt, exchanges amused reminiscences with Marion Nelson. Behind them, Benny Archibeck looks up to greet Sylvia llcken while Diane Poole, in the white blouse, stares off into space. At the extreme right, Scott Bailey, wearing glasses, talks earnestly with Patty Hastad, while Vic DeLorenzo speaks with equal concern to an unidentified girl in a polka dot dress.

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The Creative Spirit IN A DAY OF AUTOMATION, Man remains the great creative force. Ingenious machines have been devised which will perform amazingly complex tasks. They will set type, inspect manufactured products, operate oil refineries, communicate with satell- ites orbiting around the earth. Many have felt that Man has become sup- plementary to the machine, that he is faced with domination by mechanical monsters. They argue that he is being reduced to a mass-pro- duced uniformity, with a mind carefully ma- nipulated by those who poison it with sub- liminally inspired ideas, who malnourish it with all the trivia of the mass media. And yet the machine is not enough. An electronic device may be able to write a script for a TV western, but it cannot write Hamlet. It may be able to guide a rocket into orbit, but it cannot direct a symphony. And the mind of Man repeatedly breaks forth from the channels machined by the en- gineers of consent. All the forces of the mass communications specialist are brought to bear on a political candidate, and for good or ill a majority turn him down. Technology untamed does indeed pose a threat to mankind. Yet it likewise poses a challenge. At its very best, a college student ' s dedication to education is an affirmation of faith in the ability of the creative human spirit to meet this challenge. BRUSHES AND PENCILS - Instruments are nothing without the hand of man to guide them. This time it is the hand of a woman, Linda Gay Dean, that has created our cover, pointing up the creative ability of mankind.

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Campus Life THOSE KNOW-IT-ALL GREEKS must have said it first: The whole is greater than its parts, ndividually, college students aren ' t much dif- ferent from anyone else. Some like pizza, others prefer hamburgers; there are even a few who profess a fondness for rutabagas. They worry about finances, they have aches and pains, they fall in and out of love, they have ambitions they will never realize. ng hundreds of college students together on a campus like this one, however, and some- thing happens. They become more than a col- lection of individuals brought in close juxta- position. Displaying an animation they do not exhibit singly, Ihey laugh together at none-too-funny jokes; they exult over athletic victory (and their happiness is as contagious as their gloom over defeat); they resent in unison the petty injustices of life; they enlist in great crusades. Whatever direction they take, when college students come together their life on campus gives rise to something new, something greater than the sheer multiplication of their individ- ualities. A Student Body has been created. FAMILIAR BURDENS- If all the books carried home by college students were placed end to end, they would surely reach beyond the orbiting satellites.