DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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- .- DPU students pose for a picture in the Big Apple. These students particiapxed in the GLCA New York Arts Program during the fall semester. The sailing club competes in the Ohio State Sailing Regatta.

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More Than You'd Expect From . . Students Like These erhaps the most vivid im- age I have from my fresh- man year at DePauw was a conversation I had during Orien- tation Week with a girl going through sorority rush. I asked the girl what she thought about DePauw, and she promptly answered, It's the Barbie and Ken doll school of the Midwest. Horrified, I won- dered what I had gotten myself into. Barbie and Ken doll A porn squad entertains the Tiger fans at ime to the tune of Dan Hannats marching I. school? Could there be any se- rious students at a place like this? The rest of my freshman year dampened my hopes. Reports that Color Me Beautiful was the bestnselling book at the DPU bookstore didn't help, nor did statements like I won't be in class much this week - it's hell week. I began to resign myself to the fact that DePauw would always be in a little bubble. Then one day a faculty mem- ber confided in me how he viewed students at DePauw. He said he gave them a personality grade in addition to a letter grade. One could be a GP, an L, or an I. A GP was a grade-pusher tself-explanatoryL and L was like- able, and an I was an individual e according to him, the highest mark he could give. He assured me they were out there, and I set out to find them. Slowly I discovered there were many people that I met in classes, in activities, and socially, striving for something higher than the glitter and the greek letters, people who were able to put DPU in perspective, and re- alize a world out there that was just waiting to be experienced. The individuals are here, every- where, the problem is you just have to see them. Certainly, not the kind of people you would expect from a place like this. - Ken JIennison s t;- Opening 5

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Glenn Romancruk More Than You'd Expect From . . . A School This Size acked to his bulletin board is a pic- ture from a dance. But its not from a DePauw fraternity or sorority house dance, it's from a spring ball that senior Lamont Clements attended in Merry Oide England during his year long stay at the University of Exeter. I became good friends with a couple of English pe0ple, but also with a person from Berlin studying at Exeter and an- other from Switzerland, he said. And there are times when I miss them and the whole Exeter scene. I plan on heading back to visit them soon, but not soon enough. , Pinned to another bulletin board is a 3 x 5 picture of junior Auburn Sheaffer standing outside the Louvre museum in Paris, France, with her arms laced to the shoulders of several French people. She too values these friends quite highly, I just mailed each of them a DePauw sweatshirt so as maybe to spread a bit of the black and gold around over there. But whether they spend a semester or year in Exeter, Strasbourg, Barcelona, Li- beria, or Bagota, DePauw students on ex- change programs exchange more than just themselves. As well as consuming culture from other parts of the world, they spread a little bit of the black and gold within them with people and places far and wide throughout the world . . . more than you'd expect from a school this size. - Bob Gynn