Creighton University - Bluejay Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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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

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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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1l8S! 3r Annette Gleason finds the benches in the quadrangle an opportune spot to talk and watch the action. The grass never grows tall on the east quadrangle—a seemingly endless ball game takes care of that. Cards, conversation dominate east quad For many the essence of college life is not cramming for an exam in English Lit, or the relentless tracking of a line of philosophical reasoning, or even the tense, frothy roar of applause at a basketball game. No — for some remember best the dropped pass in a game of catch on the trampled Quadrangle huddled between dormitories under the sullen moistness of a November sky. Or the marathon game of bridge, played out among coffee cups and empty Coke glasses in the Student Center, away from mental disciplines, away from the world. Are they lost, these irresponsibles? Do they falter on the fast track of the great game outside college walls? Or are they the realists who find that life, too, con- tains the miscue on a sodden field, the card dealt heed- lessly into a puddle of cold coffee?