Riverside College - Tequesquite Yearbook (Riverside, CA)

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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.

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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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EVENING SHADOWS -Joe Butler braces a pillar in tha arcade near the library. That good looking blonde he ' s talking to is Bonnie Schilder. Other Extended Day students are unidentified. Day and Night THE COLLEGE has two campuses, and both are located on Fairfax Avenue at Riverside. Identi- cal buildings line both Quadrangles, and syca- mores arch over the walks of one as they do the other. An insensitive visitor might claim the two are the same, but the more perceptive will recognize that the daytime campus is a different place from the campus at night. From early morning until late afternoon, the bright California sun highlights activities. At night, however, floodlights iay eerie shadows across the campus; conversation is animated enough, but somehow muted, in spite of the many en- rolled in the daytime who also take classes in the evening the coffee drinkers in the Pit are an older lot, an optimistic group (or they wouldn ' t be there) but nonetheless too preoccu- pied with the responsibilities of living to care a great deal about football scores or ASB po- litical campaigns. The campus by day and the campus by night— each creates its own distinc- tive mood. SOCIABILITY — The step on the corner of Terracina and River- side Avenues is a favorite rendezvous spot for men. It is a good vantage point for meeting feminine friends from high school, or just for standing on the corr girls go by. Left to right: Tom Henry, J Al Schwab, Lester Lowe, James Partridge, and Lynn and watchi Park, H, ng all the Bacheler, McGinnis. I