Memphis University School - Owl Yearbook (Memphis, TN)

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Conflict: was calling for a date three weeks in advance only to find out your best friend had called thirty minutes earlier. Intensified conflict characterized student relationships. The spring of 71 saw prospective candidates for various student council seats attempt to surpass their own limits of friendli- ness, money, composure, and intel- lectuality in that order. Seven suc- ceeded. An exceptionally brilliant sen- ior class competed fiercely with one another for college acceptance boost- ing grades even higher. Couples both suffered and enjoyed the driving sound of hard rock that invaded the peacefulness of the University Club for Spring Formal 72 in anticipation of cherished after-moments. The news- paper and the student council were at each other ' s throats by mid-year as some articles termed editorials could easily have been mistal en for letters appearing in Dear Abby. As always, students ' playfulness clashed with teachers ' seriousness causing many a lad to spend Saturday morning on campus, not in bed. Yet what would the student do without conflict? ' 4 student Life 27

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4r This page: (left) Concerned students do their part towards keeping ttie lounge clean, (center) Joel Hobson wets his pants, (inserts) Jack Bar- ksdale and Keith Barksdale lend their muscle to Kang Rhee ' s demonstration Opposite page: (right) Tarzan fights off Julius Caesar and com- pany during Gallic Wars. 26 Student Life '

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Emotion: was disappointedly discov- ering only one inch of vir- gin snow on a Monday morning in January. A consensus would probably indi- cate that life at an all male school would be somewhat less than exciting — no swishing skirts or churning hips or puzzling personalities to break the seemingly endless monotony of schoolwork. Yet life at MUS was differ- ent, swinging intensely from one emo- tional extreme to the other. Frenzied abandonment of all such superfluities as assignments, papers, and class at- tendance was met by teachers with only token resistance before such highpoints of the year as the CBHS i b