Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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ln 1969 it was Eat Pie, Chi Psi, Nov. 1 g now it was Satyagraha: Nonviolence and the Spirit. Columbae was a unique living groupg it was Stanford's first and only 'non-violence house.' Fresh bread was baked dailyg bongo drums accompanied young women moving silently through yoga's contorted movementsp seminars on non-violence were offered both to house members and to the entire college community. But Columbae was also part of the trend towards transforming dying fraternities into coed houses. ZAP lformerly Fijil, ATO, and Delta Chi had all followed suit. It was hoped by many budget-concerned administrators that such transformations would provide an answer to financially unprofitable fraternities then operating. The trend was expected to continue. Beginning Fall Quarter, the University also offered special housing arrangements for minority student groupsg the concept of making specified houses available for large concentrations of Black, Chicano, and Indian students had been developed the previous spring during discussions held by BSU and MECHA. According to Associate Dean of Students Bill Leland, the new housing situation was created to provide an easier opportunity for Blacks and Chicanos to live in proximity to other Blacks and Chicanos in order to establish their own identity. A majority of the black freshmen and about 20 percent of the Chicano freshmen requested the new arrangements. The remaining Chicanos and Stanfords 22 indians chose not to live in one house,' instead, they lived in supportive groups of four or five' throughout the housing system.

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crates and the poles that will eventually be the fuel for the Big Game bonfire. Now kids are using it as a fort. There are burrs all over the bottom of Lake Lag. They catch on your socks when you go walking down there. Leafletters are still prowling White Plaza, telling you to work for Riles, or Tunney, or to vote for their Student Senate candidate. But there are no noon rallies any more. There are problem sets to do. Books to read. Thoughts to think. So it goes. Freshmen are well into their new gran'falIoons. Freshman dorms, Western Civ lthat isn't really Western Civl, Freshman seminars, all the faces that will keep reappearing for the next three years. And there are more gran'falloons to come-overseas groups, labs-more faces, more acquaintances. Older students are passing those faces on Quad, smiling with vague recognition, and trying to remember which gran'fallon that face belonged to. Last year there was the lVloratorium. This year there are the elections. Last year hundreds turned out to choose between the black and the white, and say no, we do not agree. This year there is the greyness of reality, of men who are sort of good and sort of bad, the greyness of having no absolutes. Well, even if there are no absolutes, there still are problem sets to do, there still are books to read, there still are assignments to finish. So it goes. l wandered into the dining room the other day, insipid, uninspired, to see a familiar bearded figure bent over his books. I asked what he'd like to be doing, what would turn him on at that point in time. He looked up, thought a few seconds, and said, Getting on my bicycle, riding it up to the foothills, turning around and looking back at campus. Then riding down to the beach. Running naked along the beach for ten miles or so. Diving into the surf, and then having scuba gear on, and going looking for things. I was caught up'in his flight of fancy, and followed him over the foothills. I murmured some response. Yeah, he said. Back to differential equations. The campus is back to differential equations. There's football on the lawns behind Wilbur, basketball behind Roble, pot parties in Stern, booking everywhere. Stillness, too. Everywhere. So it goes. 95 'n N v .' .1 . xs- Q-'- I . 'i:,, 1 L I. wt

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During the past 25 years of Stanford's expansion, courses were being taught badly or out of habit and tradition. There is a push to. decide what services contribute educationally and which others are nice to have, but can be done without. -Dean of Undergraduate Studies James Gibbs Last year the Budget Adjustment Program was formed to cut the operating budget of the university by 32.5 million in four years. This year, due to the increased cost of security, the creation of new administrative positions, non-faculty salary raises, and expenditure levels which were forecast too low for division operations, the goal was reset at 33.5 million in cuts and the program was lengthened one year. The situation was not critical, but it was serious. Stanford's income was growing at the rate of 6-7 percent a year, expenditures, unfortunately, were increasing at twice that rate. Projected deficets were to be met by the use of unrestricted general funds, but even these funds were limited. In balancing the budget, priority was to be placed on retaining minority employment, student aid, and the mix of tenure and non-tenure faculty. Cuts were first to be made on the administrative side, then the academic side. Ray Bachetti of the Provost's office rejected 'across the board percentage slashes' as 'irresponsible and mindless.' The cuts, though, did hurt. Faculty stagnation was becoming a serious problem as faculty expansion ceased. Dean Al Hastorf attempted to counter this danger by replacing openings left by retiring senior professors with junior professors with new ideas. Humanities were especially hurt. The Stanford Repertory Theatre had already lowered its final curtain. The Speech section of the Speech and Drama Department was in its final year. The Debate Team was desperately searching for outside funds. But most important to the student, despite Kent Peterson's, manager of analytical studies, remark that tuition is not the way to solve the financial woes lof the universityj tuition was going up again.