Davidson College - Quips and Cranks Yearbook (Davidson, NC)

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Something always seems to be in the air at Davidson in Sep- tember. Something new, different and exciting. Perhaps it ' s only the pollen. More hopefully, it ' s a renewed spirit after a refreshing summer. Whatever it is, it was again present when the new crop of freshmen and returning upperclassmen arrived for the opening of College. Lofts went up, freshman hall regatta rafts went down, old friendships were renewed, new friendships were made, and suddenly, classes began. For whatever reason, an energetic optimism pervaded the campus, though one student observed, We ' re a motley col- lection of warmed-over ' 50 ' s scholarship athletes, burned out ' 60 ' s activists, and studious, conservative pre-professionals of the ' 70 ' s, among other things. The activists grabbed most of the headlines away from the athletes and the scholars during the fall quarter. Ralph Nader visited the campus as a Reynolds lecturer. The noted consumer advocate questioned distinctions between cor- porate and public interests, urging greater scrutiny of the gov- H mtmi 9 DAVIDSON COLLEGE I FOUNDED 1837 BY PRES BYTERIANS. NAMED FO GENERAL W. L. DAVIDSOI W00DR0W WILSON STUI IE0 HERE 1873-74 KKMMKH1 l»37 eminent and business powers by the silent majority. Frederick Storaseka ' s How to Say No to a Rapist, Viveca Lindfors ' performance of I Am a Woman, Jerry Rockwood ' s charac- terization of Edgar Allen Poe, and Bob Katz ' s presentation, Who Killed JFK? offered stimulating diversions to fall quarter ' s studies. A Nader-style uproar with a Ziggy-type outcome arose over the censorship of the 1973-74 edition of QUIPS AND CRANKS. When the distribution of the annual was delayed by an administrative decision without consultation with the student editor because of the proposed publication of ques- tionable material (two full-length frontal pictures of male streakers and some locker-room jargon), SGA leaders and publication editors came together in protest of the denial of due process. The administration prevailed over both student threats of court action and an SGA Senate resolution demand- ing that publication of QUIPS AND CRANKS be returned to the student editor. The annual was finally distributed with the streakers belled and minus a u, 2 l ' s, an h, an i, and a t, and without another u, a c, and a k. As the Davidsonian reported, All the nudes that ' s fit to sprint is all a matter of coverage.

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TRANSITION . . . Ovens College Union to E.H. Little Library It had taken three years, but suddenly, it seemed to be completed. When the class of ' 75 arrived as freshmen in 1971, they saw only a hole in the ground on an empty lot. Beam by beam, brick by brick, the building grew as the class waited patiently. mi Arlf Jj — — - n B ' — - - « • t -ia SL ' j. ml 1972 -t l i» jj ' ■ VMjT, t p ' - k jeis r m ff pywwpg? ■ ■■■ ytW ?T ' ' «J : ' ML- i %S! f