Arizona State University - Sun Devil Spark / Sahuaro Yearbook (Tempe, AZ)

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At the beginning of another school year everyone gets into the act as countless safaris journey back and forth transporting precious cargo. Even a sprained elbow does not deter this coed as she deftly carries an armload of shoeboxes. 24

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Interview Santa Claus found the time to stop off at the MU Christmas decorating party to spread cheer. NO LEFT TURN Students crossing the Mall were constantly barraged with literature and stimulating ideas. The subdued lighting of Gammage Auditorium added to the evening of cultural enjoyment. Freshmen grumbled and splashed as they passed water cans hand to hand up the butte to the A.

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Values Are Fundamental President G. Homer Durham and ASASU President Bill Perkins welcome freshmen to the University. The movements of events is almost always a great deal faster than the movement of our own minds. This can be the for the college freshman certainly. The events—moving into a new dormitory, a new environment with new rules—is rapidly. The necessary move of adjusting to a total university is sometimes not so rapidly accomplished. After the hectic, excited moving-in to the dorm, is the welcoming reception hosted by President Durham. One freshmen stood in line for one solid hour to see President Durham, the Deans, and the student body officers. Last, but ranking high with the line weary freshmen are the refreshments served. Events keep moving faster and faster— freshman orientation, freshman with a new, large campus, registration, and freshman fun in the ASU tradition—painting the A. With a fresh coat of paint on the A, and a fresh spirit, the freshmen face their new experiences at this university . . . frightened. It is said that to be wise is to have a knowledge of those human values that persist in any human environment. Where in the environment of this does the freshman find those persisting human values? The answer differs with each freshman, the length of time needed varies with each individual, but the search is the same. Four years is a good start, often a headstart. Human values are hard to find and hard to define. It is hard to be a freshman but it is brave. To be a beginner is to be vulnerable. To place yourself in a vulnerable after careful deliberation, takes This is the true status of the university freshman. He has made a choice and he can never retrace his steps exactly. He now assumed his starting position. He knows that there are hurdles — but he does not know at what height they have been placed. Yet the race has begun and one must run. 25