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We draw, in the following pages, upon our past (the Sixties, which we both idolize and degrade), our present (the Seventies, which we blindly, indifferently, passed through), our future (the Eighties, which, if Seventies ' tendencies bear fruit, will blos- som forth into a harvest of materialistic, pragmatic, self-seeking individuals. Or, if 1979 really marks the end of the malaise of the Seventies, the Eighties will bring forth a generation sobered, not embittered, hope- ful, not illusioned, practical, not pragmatic; a generation ready to learn from the past and forge into the future. We cannot summarize; we can only sur- mise. We cannot know; we can only guess. We cannot conclude; we can only end — and hope. Nita Denton and Elaine Bentley
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As we approach the theme of the 1980 Talon with mixed emotions, we know we must reach a conclusion, but what is the right one to draw? Ambiguity clouds our vis- ion. We see both good and evil, optimism and pessimism, fear and hope, triumph and defeat. For the theme of this ye arbook we have chosen the comparison of past, present and future — where we ' ve been, where we are, and where we ' re going — the perfect theme for an end of the decade yearbook, fairly comprehensive, fairly comprehensible — logical. With this goal in mind, we busily collected articles, snapped photos, con- ducted interviews and mapped out the me- chanics and graphics of the book. Then one day we realized we didn ' t know what we were going to say. We looked over our notes frantically; the essence, the key to the mood of the Seventies, to our genera- tion, must be here somewhere. But it wasn ' t. All we had were pieces of information, dis- jointed impressions, fragmented observa- tions of university life in the Seventies. More to the point, we were confronted by a pile of narrowly scoped, objectively stated sum- maries of the operations of the clubs, Creeks, sports, offices and services. Taken separately they were trivial. Taken together they were meaningless. We realized the immensity of the task we had undertaken. How can a small group of seniors armed only with their individual pre- ferences, predilections and prejudices ever PROLOGUE encapsulate the spirit of the entire decade? How could we dare set ourselves up as au- thorities and generalize about the meaning, mores and manners of the time even before established critics have attempted such analysis? We couldn ' t even agree among ourselves to present a unified conceptualiza- tion of the decade we thought of as our own. To present to you in this book our piecemeal compilation and allow you, the reader, to draw your own conclusions was our first idea. This would accomplish two purposes: one, it would force you to evaluate, to think, to analyze. Two, we wouldn ' t have to do anything. Tempting as this proposition was (allow- ing us to evade our duty and at the same time providing us with an intellectual justifi- cation for so doing), still the purpose of a yearbook is to draw some sort of perspec- tive, some sort of encapsulization, however limited in scope, of the year. What we present, therefore, is our reflec- tion of the year. Of necessity the year, being a transitional one (the blurring of the Seven- ties into the Eighties), must be dealt with in terms of its reference to the decade which it closes and the decade which it begins. We know our observations are limited. Perhaps this in itself is a comment on the decade that shaped our collective con- sciousness. If the Seventies were in actuality the haven of the me-generation, then that we, its product, cannot objectively surmise our generation is a significant statement.
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