University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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STUDENT LIFE: After Hours At The UA The merry-go-round lights up Spring Fling Ijincb at the Park Student Center gives students an academic breather. ■ 12 S-T-U-D-E-N-T-L-l-F-E “Life is a banquet with most Of the world left starving. One needs to live, live, live.” —Auntie Mame Reverse any social more or conventional status quo, and one would have the standard for the college student. While one studied as intensely as required for a college student, one also struggled with an insatiable need for behavior befitting a Japanese warlord. The exhaustion from a long week on campus could only be relieved by an equally tiring weekend of mindless pursuit for pleasure. Students lived their college years to the maximum, members only to the grueling, yet fulfilling, preview of life after college. For. when graduation was finally over, the real world would begin In the real world, one heeds no one but oneself. T his realm excluded parents and guardians. Now was the time to do everything one would have done “if I did not have to ask permission.” Ovcrindulgcncc became a prominent feature on the horizon of college life. And how did these excesses take form? The constant method was expanding the mind. A student could absorb all there was to know from the archcaology of pre-Han China to performance art, the nonstatic expression of creativity. And then there were, in terms of overkilling pleasure, the vices: Spending money and socializing. Credit cards allowed a student a weekend trip anywhere there was an airport, or the ability to buy all of one’s closest friends drinks from happy hour to closing. Until, of course, the end of the month when either the local bank or the parent’s homefront bank revoked the privileges those magical pieces of plastic endowed. Socializing was another demonic means of overdoing it. Any given night of the semester, the socially-minded student could always find someone to go out with. And when the party ended or the bar closed, there were other places to go, like after-hours clubs or the top of Mount Lemmon to prolong the festivities. However, if a student perpetuated the festivities too often, he tended not to return for the next semester. Yet, college was not an exercise in futility despite all the hangovers, all the hours lost due to studying, and the question in general of “where did all my time go?” As long as the possibility of graduation was kept in mind, one survived college relatively well. For if one could become a member of college life, one could become a member of the real world. JEFF WALLACE

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 STUDENT LIFE CONTENTS Centennial Homecoming 14 UA Spirit 18 Films and TV 20 Books and Fashions 24 Speakers 28 Wildcat Nightlife 32 Cellar and Mall Activities 34 Fitness and Food 38 Friends 42 Scamming 44 Off-Campus Housing 46 Greek Week and Dorm Daze 48 Spring Fling 52 Student ID Uses 54 News Mini-Magazine 56 Editors • Teresa Tokar • Douglas Kinne

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