Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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•■ ' •■ !;?u,-;i,-;-rfc7 ' ,.-,.. leadership of the mediocre, the pusher and the pushed. Yearbooks traditionally are ra-ra and sugar sweet. But this too is a distortion, so the Jamb is composed of recurring motifs rather than one theme. Limited by our budget and the powers that be, confined by our photographic resources and our own imagination, we have rather attempted to suggest some contrasting facets of Tulane. Such a product to be meaningful must be enriched by the attendant memories of each reader.

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Jvrii.i; ' INTRODUCTION • t The American University today embodies no central core, no soaring spirit. Whatever dominant symbol the historian of the future may select must be artificially super-iniposed on the reality he cannot recapture. This does not imply a lack of the in- teresting or worthwhile, but simply the absence of any magnetic essence. Certainly our classes and assignments are not the focus. And not the athletics; here, now. No shared goals, ideals, or dorm life embrace the student body. This need not Ije condemnation. Viewed in terms of the diversity and diffusion of our era, a hodge-podge or grab-tlie-brass-ring sort of education may l)e fundamentally sound. With the worship of sta- tistical success, perliaps only the representative is to l)e desired. And this could justify the campus

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