Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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1960 - 4967 1 K, Tl ,I , -Q! Lhc syllxluis nonnewuavulul The olimox of dll noTionol eleoTion ooTiviTy come in November when DemooroT J.F. Kennedy wos eleoTed presideni. Though only one week before The Big Ten mock eleoTion fovored Nixon, The noTion Turned iTs leodership over To Kennedy. 1961 News TwisT Roges oT NU. lnTroduoed on o smoll soole IosT spring, The loTesT donoe oroze, The lwisT, found iTself The biggesT Thing on The Norlhwesiern oompus This posT yeor. From The Time NUiTes reTurned IosT foil To Todoy, There hos been only one donoe for The mojorily of The oompus sTudenTs. The Twisf livened up The mony foll ouorier open houses held ofTer fooTboll gomes ond wos o populor ond permonenf feoTure oT oll The informol poriies. Alumni ond porenT ohoperones were omozed ond omused oi The donoe's populorily, bui more Thon one porly wos highlighTed by The insTruoTions given To These some ohoperones in The inTrioooies of The TwisT. Buf The populor new donoe didn'T confine iTself To informol ond oosTume porlies - before long iT wos o sTondord iTem on The progrom for oll porties. Pledge formols ond dinner donoes found The TwisT o mosT reouesTed iTem ond bonds found They hod To ploy The opproprioie music if They wonTed o reTum engogemenT for NorThwesTern porlies. Some observers wondered how long The oroze would IosT - ofher observers didn'T Toke The Time - They were 'TTwisTing like They did IosT summer. 1962 News

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ix AV.,1K.,,. .M 3.24 iris .fi effing 4' Q -T. T fix X. -n . 1.f,5,,, l -- ll vu s.M..,M-.. 'it X Wi 1 I jr 5 YLLABUS - wsf 'he S ffg'Q . . .,..,,,...,,, , ., ,., .. ,. .. 4 1 The excited freshmen women who orrived ot NU This fdll ond immediotely Took up residence dt Shepord Hdll didn't redlize how lucky they were. lvldny on uppercloss womon envies these freshmen The modern decor ond convenience of The newest dorm on cdmpus. 1954 Dorm notes There They were: 1,500 freshmen, eoger To get into The NU sociol whirl dbout which They'd heord so much. T'But how do we do it? They osked. T'Where do we meet These beoutiful girls The books mentioned? How do we get the boys to dsk us? These doteless freshmen found themselves relying on on old NU custom - The blind ddte. l-low do They get fixed up? Where do They meet? Where do They go? To find The dnswers to These questions, our inquiring photogrdpher, wrdpped in his clodk of invisibility, followed o 'TtypicoI pdir of NUiTes Through one of These excursions. While They might go To d movie, The Thedter, or ony of The other diversions offered by Northwestern ond Chicdgo, This couple went to d formdl donce. Our story storls on Thursddy. Freshmon Bill Amblod knew There wos d formol thot weekend. Would one of his uppercloss brothers find him o dote? T'CerTdinly! Soon Telephone lines were humming, ond The first coll brought him d ddte with fellow freshmdn lvlorgie Nichols. lvlednwhile, whdt wos lvldrgie wondering? Other Thdn height ond IT. T S 3 , T51 lxfiiinifvgm T if X rv- -Qm , T959 Syllalnis l98 I I hoir color, her questions were doomed to go undnswered 'Til They met for 'Tcokes ot The Grill. The night of The donce found our hero struggling with The bone of mole life, The Tuxedo. lvlorgie, bock in Willdrd, wos cdlm ond reody on Time. Formols don't bother girls! For The outcome of The evening, need more be sold Thdn 'look dt The pictures! Christmds ot Northwestern hos spectoculdr trdditions. There is on dnnuol Christmds tree-lighting ceremony in Deering meodow dccompdnied by o corol sing by dll cdmpus housing units. This yeor more Thdn 700 students corried lighted condles in The procession led by The Northwestern chordl union. The chordl union dlso stdrs in The dnnuol Christmos music concerl in Cohn duditorium. The dudience joins in on The singing of fdvorite cdrols. The progrdm included sections by The A CODGIIO choir, chdmber singers, ond The men's ond women's glee clubs. Another Yuletide highlight is The dnnucil porly dt The l-lut, with Honk ond Inf dishing out free food ond Som Resnick ploying Sdnto. 1957 Activities il

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, i l T if gl' , ig i A 'l u fi 'A l A rlr'fT l' f T - 9' -H wffhwcslivrnf Till T Till' ,ilf srflcwi. 1765 ji ,Q l ms . NYl.I..XBL'fw Q ff , X SYLLABUS T964 l' . I I'- ln rufhless disregord for The sociologisTs' sToTisTics, The incredibly complex mofing donce circles The Rock, plunges underground oi ScolT, emerges inTo sunlighT under Deerihg's porlols ond follows well-Trodden poThs posf beoches ond froT-porches ond Grill boofhsz The riTuol is eguolly complex: from The firsT, corefully-composed offhond conversoTion To eornesT Tolk To pinning, proposiTion ond proposol . . , 1965 Essays The dorm or house become The ploce for shdring. STudy breoks Turned info bull sessions, dinner diTTies become hour-long rowdy offer-dinner song fesTs, ond o few minuTes of news on TV. ended in o Bofmon broodcosT wiTh everyone wofching. LoughTer, loves, ond even sorrows were shored. The dorm or house become your home of fun ond friendship. 1966 Living Jonuory 27, 7:15 om And so iT begon: Chicogos worsT snowsTorm ond NU's firsT reol TesT of overnighT porieTol hours ond on-compus drinking. Who would osk for more? ForreIl's SovieT midTerm concelled Touch foofboll oi The comer of Universily ond Shermon . . . Rum runs To l-loword STreeT To celebrofe no closses . . . Who wonTs TosToyinside on o doy like This? AT SmiTh They coll iT 'Toking o Trip. AT lvlichigdn They coll iT non The juice. AT Berkeley They coll iT 'Tflying low. AT NorThwesTern we coll iT T'whoT??'? When Tim Leory come To compus, he wos mobbed The door of Cohn wos smoshed off iTs hinges. The flocks herded inTo The oudiTorium To woich Leory cross-legged before o blue-flomed condle preoch sofTly of Buddho ond his religion wiTh LSD os The socromenT. They're noT o bod collecTion - upper-middle ond lower-upper closs, young people of meons. The poor college sTudenT is only o memory, priced ouT of The morkeT. AT NU They live well ond poy for iT. Beds ore soft, molds efficienT, food nuTriTious, lounges spocious. They own sTereos, sunlomps, guiTors, chorge occounTs, golf clubs, sweofers golore. ShirTs geT cleoned oT Two biTs opiece, ond beer oT Popo's is 50 cenTs. The yeorly bill hifs 33,500 ond up. 1967 Essays