College of William and Mary - Colonial Echo Yearbook (Williamsburg, VA)

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EMPTY OF PASSENGERS, this -Green Machine makes its way out to Ludwell after a fifteen minute wait at JBT. Green machines ran on a compromise of the loop run and the regular JBT and Ludwell routes this year. REFLECTIONS FRAMED ON A BAY WINDOW on DOG Street show various merchants easily available to W M students. AFTERNOON HOURS DWINDLE as the marching band practices a program for the last home game. EN CLASSES, students linger on rick walkway in front opWashington ' A5: ■ ware of themselves in a different ■d. flight, students sought to iden- tify with their surroundings. Fitting in and finding your place were over-used yet somehow accurate phrases. No longer seeking to change the world, rather hoping to relate to it as it was, students really did feel a need to fit in somewhere. A variety of extra- curriculars were available for every interest but the student had to initiate the interac- tion. Peer pressure to become in- volved was no longer the motivator. The pressure to play an active role came from within the individual in response to a personal need to excel. Success in a world with such a tight job market depended so much on college performance and experience. Students were well aware of that fact and did what they could from the beginning to best prepare for the eventual encounter. Finding your place 1 ym ttiifmf ' •Tif

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SINGLE ROOMS AT JBT offer a private place to get away from the hectic activity of classes studies and extracurriculars. The best of both worlds Somewhere there must have been a compromise. To view the late go ' s as a period of frustrated activism or misdirected idealism would be harshly unfair. To label the late 70 ' s as a period of stagnant complacency would be a misleading generalization. The merits of both periods could not be ignored. Today ' s students needed to sit back for a moment to evaluate the change that had occurred around them. Be- ing aware of the positive force for change that was the goal of the late 60 ' s movements, and integrating that force with the desire to excel in today ' s world might be the com- promise to strive for. : Introduction