Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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14 Read it while you can This preface is one of the tew pieces of writing you will see in this book. The next two hundred pages are almost exclusively photography. Pho- tographs which speak to us and, we hope, to you. Since our physical surroundings set a stage tor our lives here, we open with a look at College Hill from the rural campus of 1860 to the present. Alter considering 1971-72 through the Bryant acquisition, the merger, and a personal state- ment about our lives, we return to the campus for a glimpse of what we think the campus should look like by the year 2000 Music has become one of the most lively arts at Brown, and since previous Libers have focused on drama, studio, and film, we have turned to music. Coincidentally, after we had planned the essdy, musicians began lobbying publicly for adequate staffing and facilities, Through committees and student activities, students have been involved with running the Universily more than ever before. Regardless of whether such participation has brought reforms, we have a responsibility to include student or ganizations at a time when traditional aclivilies have replaced the politicized ad hoc action of earlier years. After thinking and researching for a long time, we found we could reprint the sports copy ver- batim from any of a century of Libers and Her- alds, and it would sound just like 1972 Rather than echoing the traditional 'wait till next year' cheer, we let the action speak for itself. We have not included separate sections on Black students or coed dorms because both no longer stand out as novel exceptions in the uni- versity. Black students do not form the tightly knit community which first conceived the Afro- American Society but participate in campus life more as individuals than as a political group. A final note, our profiles and commentaries were selected by the managing board after much dis- cussion with other people in the university. Many people believe that yearbooks are fos- sils. Worse, they should be discarded as unreli- able extracts of their experience at a university. We tend to agreewhich is why we have tried to differ from the past so radically. We hope our views are more consonant with those of the uni- versity community than has been true in previous volumes. Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone. intro the hill 1 16 Brown must be the first 30 university to have a sub- urb. bryant or the east campus 30 That Brown is coed is 44 taken for granted. merger 44 heffalumps 60