Southern Illinois University - Obelisk Yearbook (Carbondale, IL)

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Registration moved slowly, hut stu- dents kept up the never-ending cycle -advisor-s e ct i o n i n g, ce n t e r-and hack to advisor, ad infinitum. othing stands xnxx, ,-in Sung Q-zqxbfbl I YVith completion of Thompson Point dormitories came the openi Nothing like il snack before studying. in f -4 ng of the snack har in the Thompson Point service Building. Time doesn't stand still for late checks. 12 ff

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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.

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still at outhern . . . fm fl. , v --r ff -f X' Yi seg, 7-' Southern's foreign student population also grew. ,,--U' av. small i New York. All over campus there are students full of spirit-laughing. Working, playing, browsing, eating and studying with each other. The campus truly is a home and it offers to all of us many oppor- tunities which we need only take advantage of. XVhether it he letting off steam at a campus activity or catching forty winks while studying at the library, these things indicate a way of life-our way. It started New Student NVeek. with a spirit-a new kind of spirit-made possible by the newness of so many new students. Even in the seemingly static registration lines. motion though nervous, was apparent, and in the Student Union. a spirit. an ac- tive spirit, prevailed. The buzz of activity between classes, from one building to the next, and from one end of campus to the other, in ten minutes. were integral parts of all of us and of our way of campus living. Hungarian refugee, George Comory, joined SIU after a brief stay in e roomed in the TKE fraternity house.