Northern Illinois University - Norther Yearbook (DeKalb, IL)

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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.

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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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students Entertainment is part of the life of today's college student. It can be as carefree as a concert during lVlay Fete or Homecoming or as serious as a speech by Jesse Jackson or William Kunsler. Friday afternoon parties . . . Friday night parties. . .all nighters . . .all day Saturday parties . . .all Saturday night parties. . . form part of a college student's life--the leisurely part. A part of life that's just as important as that part of his life that's filled with studying and learning. Greeks . . . frats and sororities . . . all vying for brothers and sisters with like interests and spirits. A life that could be dying today but is still a very much alive scene on lXllU's campus. An ever-rising tuition has students wondering when inflation will be curbed. A price freeze keeps them OVG wondering. lt could be another strike for or against Richard lVl. Nixon. Every student on this campus, over age 18, may now exercise his or her opinion on political, social and economic problems in national and state elections, the national being only months away. Politics on the local scene are just as important. Stu- dent government keeps alive the questions: What is wrong? Who gets this much money? Who doesn't. E2 o Life today breeds many hostilities, and so too does college life. Hostilities which can be relieved by throwing a rock, cheering a team, participating in a sport. All this is part of the college scene. All must be encountered and conquered so that we may endure a lifetime . . . make a better place in society, a place which will help mankind to better itself. rest