University of Miami - Ibis Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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Conflict ,1 . The year 1972-73 was born in the midst of conflict. The political turmoil that gripped the rest of the country erupted at Miami in a climactic end to the stream of campaigning Presidential candidates through Miami. The May demonstrations brought into focus the forces which would come into conflict, and their resulting synthesis: a new sort of consciousness that would carry the community into the

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coming year. It was the end of an era, yet it served to illuminate the fact that things were still moving, that forces were actually meet- ing and producing, through their synthe- sis, the direction which would influence the lives and activities of the next year. The days when the vocal conflicts brought wide interaction between the community elements has since gone, swept under the rug by the efficiency and professional management of the modern educational institution, the pac- ification of the vocal faculty, and the general apthy of the Student Body. The forces at work became streamlined and invisible; so did their policy making. A decline in student activitiy, a lapse in student leadership, a drop in student en- rollment all served to create a certain amount of fatalism about the place. Ibis Illustrated Annual Commentary is the visible and the invisible of this year. It is your eye into both the vanguard and the backwater nooks and crannies of the University unseen by most, and it is, perhaps, a greater insight into those things which you have personally expe- rienced. It is a catalogue of news, of humor, of comment, of contemporary life in the University community. It ' s a book about all of us .