University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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Your spirit is so big it allows every student a chance to pursue and develop his own individuality 20 Top Left: Star Gary Cooper comes to Tucson for film. Top Right: 1938 Traditions Committee initiates new members. Above: Women ' s drill team in practice. Right: Two of the most important men in UA history, J.F. Pop McKaleand A.L Slonaker. talk over the UA polo team ' s chances of going to the tournaments. You have a beautiful campus. Your well-manicured lawns are always a contrast to your shaggy omnipresent palms, and your flower gardens make this seem more like a tropical park than a state institution. While the rest of the coun- try has snow falling on its trees you have oranges ripening on yours. Sometimes I am filled with such a tenderness for you I want to run down the sidewalk yelling, Hi, tree, Hi Pigeons! Everything is so alive and eager to grow, too. But your campus isn ' t what I love the most. It ' s your spirit, and your peo- ple. So often I hear professors and students complaining that a university of your size has no unifying spirit. But they are shortsighted.

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Left DA coed mourns at the headstone of the hatchet, marking the end of the fresh men -sophomore feud. Below Left Students and faculty take a lunch break from the construc- tion of the A Below Right This UA student sent this picture home to his father tell ing him how good it felt to be wearing working man ' s clothes. People will remember the Moratorium and the marches to the draft board offices and the capture of Old Main follow- ing the Kent State incident. They will remember all of these things they will shake their heads and say, What is this generation coming to? We cannot let them forget the great growth the University has seen. We must not let them think that we, as students, do not appreciate all that has been made possible for us. The following is an open love letter to the University which appeared in the Decem- ber 7, 1964 edition of the Ariz- ona Daily Wildcat. It was writ- ten by Carolyn Niethammer, and expresses the way we feel about the University of Ariz- ona, too This is an open love letter to the University. It isn ' t a red and blue banner waving tribute to your hallowed ivy-covered halls. Your new buildings are magnificent structures, it ' s true and Old Main has a certain charm. Your dormitories look gracious and comfortable and your Maine Library seems to ooze culture; it even has the traditional ivy. But your phy- sical plant isn ' t the real Univer- sity to me.

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1930 WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES How much of the $28 you pay each semester goes toward football? Basketball? Baseball? Track? Tennis? Polo? These are questions that many students would like answered. In the first place $8.75 of the $28 tuition fee is allotted for student activities, which include athletics. Thus if you are here both semesters you pay $17.50 into the student activity fund. First $2.50 is taken off for the Desert , leaving $15 for the student fund. Of this fif- teen 58%, or $8.70, goes for athletics (the four major sports and tennis). Polo comes out of a separate four per cent slice. In short, here ' s the approximate amount you pay fof each sport per year: 21 Football Basketball Baseball Track Tennis . Polo Athletic General Fund.. $3.00 $1.25 $1.00 .$1.00 $ .35 $ .60 $1.10 They are looking for a stereo- type spirit where Betty Coed and Joe College live and die for the Alma Mater. No, you don ' t have the to- getherness and unity of pur- pose found in small colleges. This is what makes you a great university. Your spirit is so big it allows every student a chance to pursue and develop his own individuality. Many of your students are freshmen. They all come want- ing and expecting a complete change from high school. They all find it. So many of them come frustrated, not even knowing themselves as sep- arate individuals. For the last four years they ' ve been mold- ed and shaped in the typical high school or prep school tradition. Top Left: Twenty years ago jobs in Tucson were plentiful. Above: ROTC horses prove to be too much of an expense, and are auctioned off. The absence of horses put an end to the UA polo team in 1945.