Riverside College - Tequesquite Yearbook (Riverside, CA)

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Solitude PEACE engulfs the campus for the few weeks between the conclusion of the summer session and the beginning of the fall term. But even during the regular college year, if you come to the campus early in the morning, early enough to get a parking place, you can sense this tranquility, this calm that soothes the spirit and is so conducive to contemplation. It is true that the diligent student can usually find a cor- ner where he can isolate himself from distrac- tions and concentrate on his studies — an empty classroom (although these are getting pretty hard to find) or a shaded bench at the edge of the Guad. Nevertheless, you are aware that these silent cloisters are not the real campus, that shortly it will be a bustling center of stu- dent life, surging with the vitality of young people on the go. CALM— Hidden behind a group of peaceful trees and shrubs are the busy, buzzing, brain-wrenching English offices, where student-teacher conferences go on incessantly. RARE SIGHT-Seldom seen by the average student is an empty Pit. Those who are on campus very early in the morning or very late on a Friday afternoon know how lonely if can be when deprived of its normal occupants. The Pit can also be viewed in this unnatural state during vacations, semester breaks and on week-ends.

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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.

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Multitude PEOPLE begin to traverse the Guad. The library s ' owly fills with knowledge-seekers. A complex variety of voices fills the air. Dozens of these— loud, hard ones and soft, coy ones— blend into a continuous sound, a sound louder than a mur- mur, more subdued than a roar. A burst of laughter explodes from a table across the way. Feet shuffle on cement; wooden benches thud as they are lifted to admit newcomers and then dropped back in place. But the voices hold your attention. You wonder what they mean. After you have observed for a while, you find that almost always, when students gather in the Pit or the Quad, the latest gossip is exchanged. Plans for an after-game party are conceived. That quiz in the last class is discussed, and moaned over. The Pit and the Quad have come to life with warmth and comradeship. :•. CONVERSATIONS— A common view from the Terrace above the Pit shows students in both sun and shade exchanging ideas on the day ' s happenings in the Quad. CREATIVITY - Mike Butrick and Tom Bruyneel (at the ends of the table) are only talking about creative ability, but Janice Brown (with the lipstick) demonstrates this attribute. Appar- ently not interested in her art are Elsie True (seated next to her) and Barbara Kjos (across from Elsie). Standing at far right are George Carr and Eddie Collinsky.