Southern Illinois University - Obelisk Yearbook (Carbondale, IL)

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Q The Pine Hills, a short drive from Southern, ollers beautiful picnic area and scenery, but it's especially picturesque in the fall. 10 outherrfs Carbondale, population 10,000, isn't much for recreation, but stu- dents often take advantage of shop- ping Friday evenings, close by campus. 'WVall Streetn is one of the famous views of Giant City State Park, 10 miles south.

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modest 0 . s or .iw swf' 2 tg vi 1 3, v M , l 1 ,,..tW..,.m ,,,.,W 1 I A 2 I I The face of the University is her people, for a structure is void without life. To Southern Illinois University came aspiring young men and women from multifarious walks of life. From many states of the nation, the Far East, Middle East, Europe, South America, and United States territories came people ot every race and creed. They-each person remaining an individ- ual -arrived collectively at the University to form the student bodyg they were intent on enriching their lives by working with one an- other in classrooms and campus activities. There were more of them this year than ever before -almost 7,000 - and when a group of such proportions comes together, the meeting and sharing of new ways to live compels momentum. The intricate design of an individual per- sonality is woven into the emotional tapestry of a college campus, and the tapestry at Southern is no longer one of modesty, but of pride. With a freshman class of about 2,000, convoca- tions were scenes of mass activity.

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in the middle . . . The spillway is perhaps the most populated spot in the area when the weather is so unbearably hot on campus. Inspiration is one of the many necessities of a living uni- versity. An institution, however lavish, in the middle of a desert, would in all probability facilitate concentration, but an area in the center of a great teclmicolor works, such as Southern is in, stimulates inspiration. The campus itself is scenic, with familiar ivy-covered walls, surrounded by rolling lawns, and accentuated by budding trees, flowers and bushes in Spring, and the red- ness of Sumac and Maple in Fall. And leave Southern-you d0I1,lf have to go far-to find rock walls, hills, clear blue lakes and forests. Southernis in the middle of a teclmicolor area, and she reflects this in her nature. This is her life. This is Southern Illinois.