North Dakota State University - Bison Yearbook (Fargo, ND)

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staff, , Q WMM fffufzdf exile! grain gwfwa farmers mfzmzgm ' Don Christensen, photographer Pat Carlson . . . Marilyn Hunter . . . Robert D. Kline, assistant editors Loretta Brown . . . A Marthana Hjortland, copy editors John Hesse, theme copy Irv Letofsky, sports Ed Boerth, advertising manager The lyrics of If published through Shapiro, Berstein 8: Co., Inc Mona Lisa through Famous Music Corp. A Bushel and a Peck through Susan Publications, Inc. Be My Love through the Rob- bins Music Corp. Tennessee Waltz through Acuff-Rose Publica tions. Nevertheless CI'm In Love With YouJ through Crawford M usic Corp. editorial staff Iune Aamodt Bette Ackerman Pat Akre Arlene Anderson Eileen Anderson Peggy Armstrong Ann Beck Pat Christianson Sharon Cooke Barbara Cote Betty Lou Danielson Marlys Eichmiller Lois Fitzloff Glen Goodwin Arlene Creuel Phyllis Hans Dick Hill Connie Iacobson Margery Iohnston Carol Iordheim Crilla McGill janet Clson Dick Palon Nancy Pease Jane Remboldt Iris Ross Norma Seefeldt Carola Thornberg business staff Ioyce Iohnson Marcia Lace Neil Moen Monte Piper Maxine Pladson Dave Robinson Shirley Shepard Janet Vick

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Ai ' 'fl , ,, . 'l J Q .- I donlt understand it I donlt understand it bewilderment, tension anxiety.. . . . bewilderment, tension, anxiety . . . boys, young men, draft, camps, commands, obedience or guard' house, obedience or guardhouse, march, left and right, why not middle, why not middle, why not middle . . . right and left, conservaf tive or radical, republican or demo' crat, houses, umt, military, obsolf ete military, undemocratic military, obey, obey, do not think, obey, life, liberty, and the pursuit . . . awol . . . left, left, communists, Negroes, kill the dirty nigger, ku lqlux klan, kill, outlaw the communists, outf law, obey, obey, obey, obey . . . 6 Naive statement that, for this is the story of some nineteen hundred students and the world in which they lived. A complex story, a pictorial, in which there are no heroes and no villains. A drama in which the understudies quickly become the principals and then, too, disappear in the miasma of time. A story of a world within a world. The time is now and yet it is yesterday. Yesterday , . . Qctober, 1950. A painting entitled Bird in Flight stands in a library lobby, The paintf ing is characterized by long green and red strokes, but no bird can be seen in the painting. On the second floor of that library stand other paintings in an exf hibit of modern painting. Strange pictures with sim- ple names: Laboratory Reportll, Battlewagon'l, and Subway.M 4 Passers passfby. They look at the paintings, read the titles, and stand perplexed. Vague expressions and blank faces. Remarks: L'Silly, isnlt it? , Alt looks just like a subway , LkMy seven year old daughter can do better than that , and ml don't understand it. Conf torted faces, silly grins, and knowing smiles . . . be- wilderment, furrowed bewilderment, tenseness, tenf sion, and anxiety. Without knowing it, SC students and others were looking at themselves, at their civilization, and their society. Distorted picture it Awas, but the distortion was not in the mirror-it was in the civilization. Art is a barometer-a graph of its culture. ln the years 1950551 the graph was eccentric, zig-zagged, unbalf anced, and wayward. The barometric needle told its story. A Told of war and atom bombs and bacteriological warfare . . . of hatred and cruelty and of selfishness . . partiality, prejudice, inequality . . . gullibility and peof ple . . . dead men, bugle blares, battles tracks, hos- pitals, doctors, nurses, plasma, united states, factories, tanks, and dead men . . . starvation and piles of pota- toes, poverty and crates of eggs . . . death, disease, and death . . . swindles, graft, and usury . . . traditions, customs, and status quo . . . Anxiety . . . ANXIETY . . . anxiety . . . ' Here and everywhere . . . in painting . . . in the riotous notes of a Stravinsky symphonic piece . . . and others: Prokofieff, Shostakovich, Hindemith, Walton, Barber . . . in the poetry of E. A. Robinson,