Creighton University - Bluejay Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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The student center isn ' t the best place to study, but Kevin McCarthy finds it good for a pre-class review. Student life— the work of study Mary Healy studies for one last time under a favorite tree felled by Dutch Elm disease. . ' .., - ' ' f :}. ' ' ' : y ' ' ' ' '

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Marty Vacant! finds that a pause in the clay ' s occupations helps to put things in perspective. Everyone needs a few minutes to be alone each day- either to study, to read or just to think. The sun deck on the roof of Swanson Hall provides a peaceful place to study and get a tan. 18

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Battle of books: won or lost here The library is where the student and the book come together. Friends or antagonists — this is where they are alone. If they cannot form a working relationship here, all the strength of traditional education suffers. And this is a small but disheartening defeat not only for the stu- dent, not only for his teacher, but also for the medieval monk, wearing out his eyes in a dim monastery copying a manuscript, for the thinker crucified on the sharp edge of public doubt, for the builder of a society meant to be ruled by rational, informed thought. If the student does assimilate the book, his life and his society are the richer for it. And often it happens here, in the library, among the stacks of thoughts, of dreams, of wisdom and insight that form the legacy of dead men who live again, and live vibrantly, on this stiff cardboard and paper. The end of a long, quiet stack is tlie perfect place to con- front and assimilate a book. .1 -. t y f i