University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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1975-76: The Year in Review Where did this book come from? It came from the typewriters and cam- eras of a score of students who, like you, want to remember what it was like to be a student at the University of Michigan in 1975-76. We can ' t give you the times that happened then, they ' re gone. No one has slowed or saved time since it be- gan an eternity ago and no one is likely to slow its pace in the eons waiting to unfold. We ' ve tried to freeze images of that time in pictures and print so that we, you and others might recall the events that defined the personality of that year. Re- alizing the limitations of printed pages, we ' ve tried to document that year as best we can in a photo-journalistic capacity. Just as it is impossible to save time and live it a second time, it is impossible to truly describe a year ' s events in any num- ber of printed pages. We have but one volume, an inch or so thick, in which we must describe hundreds of days in the lives of thousands of individuals. We ' ve done the best we can to fulfill our obligation by freezing images of the events, people and feelings that we feel characterized this time and this place. Our report is more than a general sam- pling, we hope, for we ' ve tried to go be- yond the obvious surface images. We ' ve tried to probe, to feel the pulse of the uni- versity and to communicate the vitality which the passage of time will never let us experience again.