University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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Or university planners will come up with a puzzling construction scheme, with bulldozers and work- ers bustling like ants around a mound of dirt on traffic circle until a huge M suddenly blooms. Meanwhile, parts of campus remain unlit. In these areas on a moonless night, an unescorted stu- dent can barely see ten feet in front of her. The geniuses who started this university built it right on a flood plain, a botany professor might chuckle. A student caught in the rain wearing open-toed shoes and socks grumbles at the same thought. But for all its inaccuracies of planning, construction is a sign of progress — and progress we must. The bulldozers and cranes and whistling construction workers remain an integral part of this cam- pus. 22

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The Student Union Our environment is not just con- fined to plants, animals, water, air, and such. According to Webster ' s, environment can be defined as all the conditions . . . and influences . . . affecting the development of an organism. We are that organ- ism; and our social atmosphere must also be considered as a major influence. In fact, it is our social environ- ment which, we would presume, most students would consider the vital port of the college. One place on campus is solely devoted to sat- isfying this social need. That place, of course, is the Student Union. 24