University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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One outstanding cxent wholly new to the campus was the Festival of the Arts. a week-end bonanza which found bizarre. stuv dents puahing the BeaumArts Ball, the largest dance at the season. the most ttrah-rah of students were worried that they had pushed too far. After watching a week which saw at least a half-dozen wilder-than-normal parties every night, some began to wonder whether the cam- pus had skipped that Ivy League spirit they desired, plunged rather into the raucous oomph Of the Big Ten. Their fears were not founded, hewever. As soon as the students, new and old, were once again caught- up in the maze of studies, classes, books, extra-eur- 12 ricular activities resumed their normal picture. But the normal picture in 1955 was different. If the stu- dents lacked the time to remake the campus, they at least gave support to those who were pushing it their way. The Student Government elections in October showed tperhaps onee-andwfor-aln that S.E.P. had failed to grasp the essential feelings of students on the campus. One observer has remarked that u'1 here is a permanent majority for 1.8L. on this campus,,,

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CU Spritzer, 1053. Irate students, angered this time by the change in the College Curriculum, staged a protest rally, sit-down strike, stormed the Chan- celloras House. In many respects this was the Uni- versity of Chicago's version of the panty-raid, a Springtime spree 10 let-otf-steam before comps. 5i Autumn, 1953. A group of studeHISewilh the more than tacit approval of the Chancellor.- Dean of Students, Alumni, Athletic Olh'eeSeattempted to restore football to the campus athletic picture. Their failure was not due to lack of interest twhich was considerablei but to the fact that they tried twithout adequate, expedenced leadershipi to go too far too fast. 6i Autumn, .1953. In an efTort to support the Sometimes, however, eating habits must :10 unchanged: thereis only one method of controlling a run-uway hol-dug as Hon llvedson dem- onstrates tn 3 group of Green girls. basketball teamithe only spectator sport at Chicago istudents organized the pep club, Concert Band to arouse student spectator support, Spur the team 10 Victory. That is the changing extra-curricular picture up to this year. What has come these past nine monlhs has been the emergence of a more dynamic extra-cur- ricttium in which the other elements of campus life have found their place. but to which some re-orienta- tionwas in the case of Student Unionewas required. Orientation W'eek saw the First signs. The entering student hy-and-iarge looked like that RAlieArnerieem type which Chancellor Kimpton wanted at his Uni- versity. They stepped-up to participate in campus activity. Stepped-up with such enthusiasm that even Chicago? athletit- prmvess continued to gruw1 L00. Stellar team Has that Of track, stellar per- former was Frank Loomns shown here taking an early lead in the hurdles races. '1', . f I m Ah-

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Alf! pminous sign was football practice in Stagg Fieldhhut in this instance. it was only practwe kickmg iOr the touc-h-inu'a-mural contests. but an examination of the Autumn elections--a1most the only instance where the student body en bloc expressed its desireshshows the elements of the changing campus. Never had the left-wing political party been dealt such defeat. S.E.P. took only three seats ftwo hy defaultt. Once again they had raised the 01d issues-primarily LT.S.-Soviet student exchangehbut this time failed to catch fire. The campus wastft interested in remaking the world, they were interested in what Student Government could do for them here and now. 5.3.13. was about seven years too latehthe student body voted its approval of I.S.Lf5 tHatine-age hook exchange. More significant was the fact that S.E.P. candidates did not reHect the new campus. The same sordid left-wing Bohemian types were trotted-out, went down this time to defeat while a clean-cut slate of 1.5.1... candidates eased to victory. Fer the first Th0 apparrt was changing 100; Bermuda short; began to appear on malt as. well ag female,