Gonzaga University - Spires Yearbook (Spokane, WA)

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4 Welcome to Zag Country This year and every year, for a very special group of High School grads, good old Gonzaga becomes the place to go. G.U. becomes the place for them to spend time preparing for the lives stretching out before them. G.U.'s their place for uncovering their attributes and talents, and for working on developing them. At G.U. they will become aware of their limitations and hopefully acknowledge their human condition. But perhpas most of all for them G.U. is the meeting place, the place to meet new people, make good friends, the place to become a community member and dig it. Learning the Ropes G.U. is an experience of relationships, multi- varied, mobile, maturing. A complete spectrum of possible happenings are open to any individual zag, from parties to pilgrimages. Keggers are initiated at the least excuse and the beer runs green St. Patrick's Day. Dorms throw semiformal blasts whenever there's an urge to get dressed up, and it's grubbies time on the Fall and Spring binges at fshh . . . we don't want the Law breaking up the funl. Lots of great Canucks and lslanders find their way to G.U. along with representatives from Z1 foreign countries this year's Senior Address is by Jo Guillen from Panama. On campus the Minority Clubs look after themselvesg the Indian Club and the Black Student Association do their thing while by all accounts there is a Spokane Club. ln sport it's soccer or rugby if you're not for football and there's kites and frisbee in the Spring. But around these parts Skiing is the bigec. Things On The Inside Where do we get our unique people and the school its unique flavor? Our biggest delegation comes from the Golden Bear state, California followed by our own Evergreeners. However, our flavor is fairly Northwestern-which supposedly reflects an appreciation of the outdoors, fresh air and the like. Skiing's good, the environment's friendly and the two most unpopular features of life seem to alternate between Spokane-the 'without it' metropolis-and the perennial term papers and associated burdens. Yet the zag soon learns not to let Academia stand in the way or his or her education and all can head out into the countryside or take a trip to Canada if the urge hits. Like the Fall Pilgrimage idea of appresiating God among His wonderful creation out in the Coeur d'Alene National Forest, so each zag has his or her own preference on what to do and what to avoid. To choose from, there's a whole variety of weekend or longer retreat experiences at our Waikiki Retreat House out among the pines or at Linger Lodge on Priest Lake. These are cherished moments of the Gonzaga experience.