Rochester Institute of Technology - Techmila / Ramikin Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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The pace of transition is quickening as the goal of ’67 relentlessly closes from the future. The new campus is begin- ning to show progress as steel and concrete unite to form the first few structures. From the observation platform on the west side the clouds of swirling dust give body to the sound of men and machines changing the face of the land. This year there is chaos in the fields of Henrietta. The nat- ural organic elements have been uprooted and heaved around to make way for a new order, an artificial environment for the most complex of all living structures: a human student. The juxtaposition of the supremely organic and the antiseptic inorganic at least is broken by the rural atmosphere, unlike that of our present concrete desert. The stimulation wrought by these changes, however, is an elusive thing to measure quantitatively. Casual solicitation has yielded pragmatisms like “to H— with the new campus, I’m paying money for my school now and I want first rate attention; besides. I'll never see the new campus!” Fortunately there seems to be no action accompanying those verbal ethics; so the negative spirit is weak. The real positive stimulus will come when we return as Alumni and visit the spacious green campus of the new R.LT.

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FOREWORD Transition. The word stands for a mysterious kind of event that underlies the structure of the universe. It is the process of transition that produces a nuclear weapon, the weather, human vision, crea- tive thought, or anything wc may think about, in- cluding the contemplation about contemplation. Psychology has shown us that it is not joy or sad- ness as continuous states that excite or depress the mind, but rather that the vacillation between the two is the source of human stimulation. This in- cessant and universal dynamic process is obviously manifest in today's R.I.T.

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