Creighton University - Bluejay Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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Mike Amdor enjoys the weather and the company as he pauses for a moment on his way to the library. You can ' t study all the time— even in the library— maga- zines and papers provide a relaxing, informative break. Rick Feltes finds studying and term paper writing more conveniently done with sources nearby. 21

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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

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i Charlie Keenan finds the student center a perfect place to catch up on his reading between classes. Tom Johns is one among many inveterate card players who deal away the hours between classes. 22