Northern Illinois University - Norther Yearbook (DeKalb, IL)

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A Kaleidoscope of all times Today's student . . . He's inquisitive . . . restless. . . searching . . . trying to make his life better and more meaningful. He tries to fight a generation gap at home and an everlasting war in Vietnam. The males worry about the lottery. A number that will determine what happens in the next two years of their young lives. The females worry about the pill, their boyfriends, their future. Sex is uninhibited, no longer a dirty wordg part of life, part of every student's fantasies, dreams, realities. Alcohol is an escape . . . McCabes . . .the Uprising . . Cork and Bottle. You know them all. Popular places. Places where you can meet new friends, have a good time with old friends, forget the realities . . . the constant learning and studying. Alcohol is a release for the stralghts . . .the con- servative side of youth. A side of youth that is search- ing for its true identity in this world. Drugs are also an escape . . . More dangerous if you get caught. Just as prevalent as alcohol, more and more often today's student joins the trend and turns more and more toward today's tension releaser. E 3 l l one today is worth two tomorrows P C

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tomorrow life is too lateg live today T0 DAY: Look at your campus. The past and the present mingle--complement each other. Altgeld--Its stateliness has endured the 77 years. Wil- liston, the first dormitory .. . Adams. . . lVlclVlurray . . . Buildings from the past playing very much a part of today . . .The Visual Arts Building. . .the Center. . . Grant Towers . . . Stevenson . . . modern . . . functional . . . contemporary. Names of persons out of history books, placed on plaques in front of new buildings. The old and the new blend to make North- ern's campus interesting . . .different . . . unique. Constant expanding and building is needed because of its constant growth. 1897 . . . 100 students. 1972 . . . 23,000. Phenominal. Students, mostly from the big city, came to DeKalb for their higher education. Today, Northern continues to grow, to build . An arboretum is gone--a psychology-math building rises in its place. Progress. The field where, years ago, many gridiron battles had been fought, was plowed up. Students will battle music there instead. Opportunity, that is what Northern is offering to the students of today. Grab it. Encounter it. The old and the new offer these chances--chances you cannot afford to let go by. -Martial

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learn today' Associated with drugs are the long hairs . . . the freaks. Dressed in as unconforming a way as possible, they too walk the campus in search of themselves. Today's student can walk around NlU's campus and encounter yet more additions to this concrete world. Music and psychology-math buildings are on the rise. Building to house more places of learning--and learn- ing is what we are really here to do. Better in our minds . . . better lives . . . employment . . .opportu- nities. We open our books, underline our lessons. We spend fruitless hours in the Swen Parson Library finding books to help us write earth-shattering papers. Exams seek to measure the effectiveness of our studying. This adds to the tensions and anxieties of getting a higher education. Field trips, included in the learning schedule, help us better understand the world around us. Teachers con- vey their knowledge, their experiences, to their yet untried, less experienced students. This big university offers small-college intimacy through today's living-learning program, very much a part of a big university's plan for tomorrow. lVlore students will get the benefit of studies offered in a smaller environment--one which offers identity. The environment . . . concern of all students. Air pollution . . .water pollution . . . noise. . .smoke . . . filth. Pollution that clouds man's future on this planet and clouds students' minds about the feelings of his fellow man. Ecology . . . too few trees. Students plant more, fight arboretum destructions, and then throw out leaflets, leading to almost greater pollution problems . TJ.