University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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Below: Vice-president Swede Johnson tells a student to move enduring the 1964 panty raid that did so much damage to campus buildings and police cars. Right: UA Medical College Hospital. 24 Right President Harvill, left, and Alumni Association President Tom Diehl, right, attend ROTC Army commissioning. accept the young prince from Nigeria with tribal scarrings on his face. And the swarthy young man wearing a turban, and the girl from Galesburg who wears a madras wrap- around skirt. You welcome the conformists and give them a group. And you welcome the non-con- formists and give their be- loved solitude. You accept not only the peo- ple, but you accept their ideas. You provide forums and talks and discussions on such widely diverse topics as death, athe- ism, politics, fashion and prop- erty insurance. You give all of us an area in which to let our spirits express themselves in our work and you give us all a way to play, too. There are poetry readings and symphony concerts; and there are football games and boondockers. Yes, dear University, we will watch o ' er and keep you. All hail, all hail.

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Above Left Students register for the draft on September 15. 1940 in the University Auditorium. Above Right Custodian removes a Japanese Merchant flag placed December 9, 1941 by what college officials termed either pro-Japanese elements outside the university or students with perverted senses of humors Left Campus policeman issues first traffic violation at the UA. fhe wondrous part is that they choose ;o many different ways to express themselves

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Left Skateboard craze hits DA in ' 60 ' s. Below: S.U. crowd watches news of President Kennedy ' s death. Lower Left Student Union dajice with only band in town. 25 Above Upper right NBC ' s Today Show comes to cam- pus with Hugh Downs talk- ing to Bill Varney and stu- dent folk singer Fred Knipe.