Northeastern University - Cauldron Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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The Cauldron is published annually by the full-time day students of Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Ma. 02115. The 1975 edition was print- ed by Herff Jones Keller Company, Gettysburg, Pa. It contains 324 pages, nine inches by 12 inches, and was section sewn with R B headbands. Endsheets are plain white. The cover is a black silk screen applied to a Flag Red Vibra Tex linen. The words The Cauldron are done in 96 pt. Optex by Letragraphica. Section titles and divider page information is also in Optex. Other heads are Clarendon and Clarendon Italic. Body copy is in 10 pt. Helvetica and 10 pt. Helvetica Italic. Cutlines are 8 pt. Helvetica. The index is set in 9 pt. Helvetica. Senior portraits were made by Stevens Studios, Bangor, Maine. Additional photographs were supplied by the Cauldron staff. There are 124 pages of senior photo- graphs in the 1975 Cauldron. There are 13 four color photographs throughout the book. All were indi- vidually separated from 135 mm transparencies and glossy prints. Spot color was also used. Press run on this issue is 2300. The 1975 Cauldron is the first annual in the history of Northeastern University to be published in hardbound magazine format.

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A city of diverse interests The Museum of Fine Arts, lunch along Newbury Street, Beacon Hill or an evening at the Colonial The- ater mav be all that ' s right with Boston to some people who live there, those who call themselves Bostonians. But the real residents of the city do not live in the Harbor Towers. Tremont On the Common, the Hill, or in the student ghettoes around the universities. They do not answer Boston when an out-of-towner asks them where they live, even if it may be the inner city. There is still a lot of Boston beyond the Back Bay. Boston is the kind of city where a lot of students come to school for four or five or six years and then decide to stay. Boston as an international idea is not the real Boston; the Harvard accent is as foreign to most life long residents as the mumbling of the ' Ricans who are now taking the black ' s place in the city ' s slum areas. Boston as the center of Ameri- can liberalism is more an ideal, more imagination than fact. The city is a place where kids can grow up all right, where maybe one or two on the block will go to college and get a degree without actually becoming a priest or nun. It ' s a place where you might go to a museum (usually the Museum of Science) once or twice when you ' re a kid (and without your whole class); or go to Franklin Park (but only in the daytime on the weekend if you ' re white because that ' s when the most MDC cops are there and the park is, after all, in the middle of Rosbury); or go to the movies, or go in town and spend a Saturday wandering around the stores. It ' s a place where a guy has to get a car, a high school diploma, and married (if it ' s only two out of three, it ' s usually the middle on that ' s forfeited). For girls it ' s easier. School ' s easier because they ' re smarter than boys, their educations are sensible rather than vocational and all they have to do is get mar- ried. The rest, supposedly, comes easy. It ' s a place where the kid who lived downstairs may be in jail now, or unemployed, or was killed ' Nam or on a motorcycle, or have three kids of his own while you ' re not thinking seriously about anything, or be divorced or be a car sales- man. College is a luxury, a painful lux- ury. It removes you from the people you grew up with, the neighbor- hood, best friends. And so, Boston is like anywhere else, like any other city. But, it is still different in some way. What makes people leave oth- er parts of the country, other cities smaller and larger than Boston and stay here? Probably identity, an identity that cannot be found by natives who stay here to further their education. The university centers of the city are in many ways like small college towns themselves. Unlike the for- tress-like structures of a Columbia University or, more locally, a UMass-Boston, the BU, BCs (even Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Pops established a worldwide reputation tor himself and the Pops. Fiedler helped make Boston into the undisputed center of music in the country in the last 40 years.