Illinois Institute of Technology - Integral / Lewis Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Hidden behind doors and beyond aging walls in the Student Union are features seldom encountered by the average Tech student. Things like the loft just off the stage, the multi-leveled attic and the tightly winding spiral staircases in the bell towers. But outside the west entrance of the Student Union lies a large imposing red rock. Not much is known of the past history of this rock. No one even seems to know how it got there. Further, no one seems to care very much. And even though the rock is large, few of those who pass by it ever pay any attention to it, even when some misguided Techawk painted it blue. There are other rocks on campus although to speak respectfully of them would not be to call them rocks but memorials in stone. More correctly they are not rocks but carefully cut and shaped pieces of rock fashioned into objects with suitable inscriptions which infer their use as a commemo- ration. One of these evidently has been gracing the campus for a considerable number of years since it is adequately weathered and bears large Arabic nu- merals proclaiming l9 on one side and 09 on the other. This is in the form of a bench about eighteen inches high and about long enough to serve as a love seat. Now resting alongside the sidewalk- driveway in front of Alumni Memorial Hall almost directly across from the west entrance, this bench is one of the few ornaments of the campus which also is functional. At the present time only three such carvings of stone exist and they are all confined to the block in which the Chem, Met-Chem, and Alumni Hall are situated. Qof course this excludes the two memorial benches just outside the entrance to Carman Hall which were dedicated by a sorority from Lewis.j Presiding in front of the Met-Chem Building is a relatively new Qcompared to 19095 clean cut stone bench which is accompanied by a bronze plaque set in concrete indicating that this bench is in mem- ory of Gordon Erickson. Now who, you may ask, is this Erickson guy? WV'ell, son, it's like this, he was the guy that wrote IIT's up and coming Alma Mater, and for this and other things they created this memorial to him with the bronze plaque set in concrete so that it would be hard to swipe.

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What is this thing called a campus? Is it just a collection ol buildings new and old, with grass and shrubbery and trees and keep off the grass signs bor- dering the sidewalks, or is there more? Can it really include the tradition and nostalgia of the area be- tween Michigan and the railroad tracks from 30th to 35th Street? And what about the night the old nostalgia burned down? There is no real division between the classrooms and the rest of the campus. True, there is a phys- ical dividing line in that all classrooms are located west of State street, but the aspect of the classroom is omnipresent. Even for the commuters, the class- room is omnipresent. The textbooks, the notes, the slide rule, the trigonometric identities, and ah yes even the straight line, are ever present reminders of the classroom. What are these, these buildings of yellow bricks and painted I-beams and aluminum window frames, with dirty windows and too hot radiators and non- functional radiators and dust and dirt on all the desks and chairs. Hillel bfi ,ard ill' dll Nmi1a 111 li1011Uldithe I Imp It I ' 0 Iwwmi iiln1111'l10l' It 1 .lialalgf , 4 udlf mlflmm 'I11 ifl1'0i Ill05e l - Il mil i1 bllf' Thfrelff Clilll but II even lille OU . 4 ' 5 ,PHL fill Lllflll IW 1101 T0f I rofl las H0115 lllllf llf piers 0 i111iP mm, 011e0f Ill mjpui lora cons is idfquateli' wear Ulhff, is lll Ll kdm high and Il lllf stat Now 1 B is l Il I0

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Wlry does it always rain when you want to go to the library when the one thing you don't want it to do is rain when you want to go to the libraryg and why is the library so far away when the one thing you don't want is the library so far awayg and why aren't there coat hangers in the library when the one thing that you want are coat hangers in the li- braryg and why is the book never there when you go to the library when the one thing you want is for the book to be there when you go to the library. I4