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CAP AND GOWN 1965 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
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It must be with small hope of success that any- one connected with the University of Chicago attempts to describe that institution to the satis- faction of his associates. Although this fact may be dismissed as demonstrating the innate per- versity of our race. in the case of UC, it has a greater significance. For example, different points of view tend to beget very diverse conceptions of the size of the University. Its reputation within the academic community is an impressive one. There is in this laet some notion of bigness, or perhaps even great- ness. Yet to the public at large, University of Chi- cagoi, seems not to be a household name; even Chi- cago residents have been known to think of iiUC only as iiUniversity of California. Because of its im'olt-einent in its neighborhood, the view 01' the nearby resident suggests an institution of consider- able size and power. It seems sometimes benevo- lently largeiHThe South Side's Largest Employer -sonietimes fearlully agressiveean organization plotting to swallow up tnuch-needed housing. The view of the student. too, must be somewhat di- chotomous. Facilities are not lacking; it is a live, active. inquiring institutionTa center for research, a Community of Scholars. Yet, thOugh the list of well-knox-vn peeple regularly encountered is long, the student body is small, and the campus, dCSpitC its menacing growth, occupies little Chi- cago real estate. The topic of progress at the University is also one which may be subject to different views. Ex- pansion is evidenced by current and planned con- struction. Nevertheless, the prerequisite for repair of existing buildings seems to be their being condemned. Even this process is likely never to touch Lexington Hall, i'temporary though it may have been all these many years. During Orienta- tion Week, it is easy to believe that this kind of conservatism is typical. Students see a vast bu- reaucracy administering placement tests for a completely inflexible general education require- ment with unsympathetic detachment. In reality, however, the iibureaueracy may function with alarming dispatch Courses are constantly being revised, and, alter a time, the faculty begins to appear considerably more concerned. Ill Change seems too slow for anyone, he can look forward to the inevitable upheaval which periodically takes place when the administration decides upon a drastically new plan. Then, like the legendary Phoenix, the i'orttier order dissolves into chaos to be superceded by another system which is likely to seem as Hexible 0r inHexible as the 01d. Although the University of Chicago is often cited as a science-oriented institution, CVCIJ this sort of generalization is not a completely fair ap- praisal. It does not, as do some iiscienee-oriented institutions, merely pay lip service to the human- ities. Although considerable scientific research is carried on, so is much humanistic; scholarship. Strangely enough, new students tend to have the impression that their area is the only one Of signifi- cance 0r competence at the University. Science majors, aware ol' Chicagois scientific reputation, are taken aback when confronted by the anomaly of a humanities major. Hum majors, 0n the other hand, sometimes fail to understand why they con- tinually discover science students on campus. These strange ideas are strengthened in science students who take Hum I and hum students who take Phy Sci. It is in the UC student, though, both a product and resource of the University, where the greatest diversity is to be found. There is neither uniform- ity of dress, thought, nor action within the student body. An examination of the wide range of stu- dent activities will verify this. Hence, the students must be viewed as individuals. Generalization must either assert trivia or the impossibility of generalization. It is at this point we must face the problem of producing a yearbook for the University of Chi- cago. A yearbook must not be a collection of un- related pictures, not even 21 display Oil artistic pho- tographs. It should reproduce faithfully, and, so lar as possible, completely represent UC. Is it pos- sible to superimpose a theme on the photographs in order to yield a successful yearbook? Alas, it is not. Because of the diversity inherent in the Uni- versity, unless a particular theme is unmistakably available, it is likely to be only the artifice of its inventor and an alien brainchild to everyone else. This is not to say that organization is unallowable. Coherence is a necessary htctor. But it is both title necessary and foolhurdy to attempt to interpret for it Chicago student what UC studenthood means to him. Perhaps the ideal. then. is to present a c0111- prehensive and organized photographic survey of t'mnpus life, minimizing superfluous copy, and re- lying upon UC individualism. perversity, preju- dice. oi' genius to interpret and give it personal meaning. This, so far as we will try to define it, is the purpose of Cap and Gown 1.965.
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