American University - Talon / Aucola Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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There is a tendency to categorize change. ..to make it into one solitary metaphysical formula you employ when chronologically demanded. ..it seems easier to fight change than to welcome it. or maybe we just ignore it altogether... but it comes into daily life... sometimes consciously, sometimes subliminally . . .we wake up and real- ize the novelty of this university isn ' t there any- more. ..we look for new conquests. . .our opinions differ... when we wake up today, we don ' t think the same thoughts as yester- day... what we thought was funny yesterday doesn ' t bring that same spontaneous smile... we think about what makes us laugh, and what makes us cry... we go back home, and suddenly the place we spent the better part of our young lives seems more removed. ..we feel alienated in and by the same place that gave us direction in our early days here. . . we have somehow conque- red some unseen foe. ..we go back home, and the homecoming queen is divorced already... we come back here, and we look for a Friday night dinner date... we go back home, and the old crowd is still drinking Michelob light and still scrounging quarters for Saturday night ' s cruis- ing... we go to a restaurant where diplomats go and we work on the Hill. . . in one respect we want to go back and we can ' t change that, but only because we have changed... in one respect we have conquered uncertainty... but that conquest seems unsure. . . we have learned how to cram for a test. . . to park on campus. . . to park in the New Mexico parking lot... we know the shorcuts through this university. . .and the longroads. ..we stay up late at night and talk about life. . . we wake up in the morning and live it... we talk about change without realizing change... our univer- sity is changing. ..but do we wan t to be trite and say our university is changing us... may be the relationship is symbiotic. . .through this metamorphosis the only constant is us. . . Michelle K. Brooks Editor in Chief Staff photo by E Ryvarden

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Staff photo by S. Sangster 4 Prologue

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