St Edwards University - Tower Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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tra aereey Vity 7 3 e os é MICHAEL M. MASHBURN JONATHAN A. BAILEY Editor-in-Chief Senior Section Editor Photo Editor Assistant Photo Editor Satirist Assistant Satirist Associate Society Editor Society Editor Advertising Critic Director of Advertising Copy Editor Assistant Copy Editor Assistant Sports Editor Sports Editor Layout Consultant Layout Apprentice Competent Typist Incompetent Typist Theatre Editor: Contributing Editors: Dolores Hatcher Coach Walker Pat Hart Annette Edwards Tim Crowley Patti Rybaski John Ryan Kevin Krucher Kevin Noonan Sponsor: Angela Smith 162

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- EDITOR’S NOTES One of the cliches we had to hear most often while editing the 1975 Tower is that a yearbook should reflect the condition of and events in the world around its own community. However, as you may have noticed by the time you reach this point we made no attempt to do so; any reflection of the real world in this yearbook is purely accidental and unintentional on our part. So while the pleas of those who demanded relevancy have gone unheeded, they have not gone unheeded without reason. To begin with we felt that we could not consider the real world without being untrue to those twin spirits of St. Eddies, apathy and isolationism. We have had occasion to spend a good deal of time at the University of Texas lately, and have been somewhat shocked at the realization that most people there don’t even know our University exists! In fact, Austin as a whole does not seem to suffer under too great an awareness of our presence, and the feeling is entirely reciprocated by most folks here at SEU. This hill we treasure so much has given a whole new life to the ivory-tower concept of education. Not in the best sense of that word with the student as detached observer of his world, but in the sense of the student as isolated hedonist. This is an attitude that is fostered not only in the social atmosphere but in the academic area as well. When we began our career at SEU it was our privilege to take two courses known as “Geography” and “International Relations”, in which students were treated to the shocking realization that not only were there several other nations on this earth, but also that it is necessary for us to “relate” to those nations in order to survive. However, our faith in the ability of anyone from SEU to “relate” to anything was severely shaken in a class called “Southwest History” by the realization tha t 95 per cent of the students here are unaware of the identity of the President of Mexico, despite our close geo- graphic and cultural ties with that nation. A certain amount of igno- rance may be tolerated in an incoming freshman, but in a third or fourth year student such ignorance of the essential world around him is a positive sin against the name of higher education. It is a sin that St. Ed’s is all too often guilty of allowing. Love, Mike 161

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