University of California Santa Barbara - La Cumbre Yearbook (Santa Barbara, CA)

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CAMPUS EVENTS Whether a homecoming bonfire, a lecture on sex, ore political rally, campus events at Santa Barbara brought a gleam to the eye of many 1968 students. Tradition, from Frosh Camp to final exams, kindled even more than before a fervent pride and height- ened dedication to the University. Challenging projec ts brough t studen ts unique avenues of individual expression which opened new vistas of consciousness. Repeatedly, these happenings supplied the opportunity for inquiring minds to question political, moral, spiritual, and academic attitudes and facades. The ability to recognize and understand the whys and hows of opposing beliefs and cultures is an unparalleled advancement made by the Univer- sity ' s aspiring scholars toward a richer and more satisfying adulthood. 1868-1968 t RSITY CENTENNIAL

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After a brief summer session, UCSB was vacant of tfie very reason for its existence-tile students. Vital construction continued during tfie lull; it was made possible by previous UC budgets. Still, the facilities were to be hard pressed in September by a record enroll- ment The exuberance with which the campus eventually throbbed back to life when the students arrived left one thing for certain: whatever the future of the University in material terms its spirit would not subside.