Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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CAMPUS LIFE i AMPUS life is the sum of experiences of the Duke Student. It signifies the routine, the unusual, the tedious, the exciting — it is the story of one day, one week, one semester, repeated over the four- year span of a college career. It is a way of life that can never be duplicated, a life spent in a unique environment and among friends chosen from within a predeter- mined radius. A Duke student ' s responsibilities are peculiar to a university existence; the hours in his day and night will never again be filled as they are during these four years. Within this time personali- ties are developed and fashioned; careers are decided and launched; interests are awakened and explored. It is not one phase alone — studies, social life, or ex- tra-curriculars — that creates the overall impression of college; it is instead the total of these, the inter- mingling of all in one vast memory of Campus Life.

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MORNING . . . Life wouldrCt be so bad if it didrCt mean getting up in the morning. But every day starts that way, the campus gradually awakens: alarms ring, and ring, and ring . . . pillows thud on roommates — or wet washcloths — or the radiator comes on with a clanking — or the soothing cackle of the ' Country Boy wafts through the speaker of the clock radio. Somehow, the Duke student eventually starts another day — or at least starts thinking about it. Through bleary eyes, he glances out of the small-paned Gothic window to check the weather — drippy, natch. There ' ' s incentive for you. Big masculine feet, little feminine feet padding groggily up and down dormitory halls, in and out of closets . . . no one really knows how the day does begin . . . can ' t see, can ' t think, can ' t maneuver. Breakfast, the first saving grace: sad cold eggs stare mournfully, the healing waters of a coffee cup, ornch juice to freshen that foul taste . . . and the first cigarette of the day {really should stop smoking) . . . the jarring rattle of Union china . . . and the day ' s first decision: which newspaper? Wonder what Jack Horner has to say, and Ann Landers . . . nice to know they haven ' t dropped the bomb . . .yet. Each day differs, but the What quiz? I bet this will wake him up. Energetic students come to class early to catch up on current events. 12