University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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Cv■ nient a pigeonhole. This new concern with Mike Davidson, former head of the College economics and lack of concern for politics Republicans. that has been called conservative just masks In a word, conservative. an underlying feeling that students cannot It is virtually unquestionable that the col- have any appreciable effect on the world lege student of the 1980s is far more mate- around them. So many of last year ' s pro- rialistic than his predecessors over the last tests didn ' t seem to have any lasting im- two decades. When Secretary of Education pact. William Bennett suggested a few years ago There is difference between being con- that college students are spending their stu- servative and being disillusioned. Conser- dent loan money on cars and vacations to vativism is a conscious political choice. Ft. Lauderdale, his office was deluged by True conservatives participate in the pond- post cards from students visiting Ft. Lau- cal arena, they are not apathetic. derdale stating wish you were here. Jennifer Adolph. another senior who So, it ' s not just the political attitudes that worked on Eldersveld ' s survey, noted, I are more conservative, but it ' s also the so- didn ' t see apathy as a motivating force be- cioeconomic values that have swung far to hind even a small percentage of those who I the materialistic side. Fashions popular in talked to. There ' s no excuse for ignorance, the ' 50s such as Art Deco architecture, DA though, and it was disappointing to see how hairstyles, and short hair for men are ree- many didn ' t really seem to be aware of the merging. Noted one writer in the Daily two world surrounding them. years ago, times were better before Ralph Debra Orr May. director of the Office of Nader ' s politics were out and his clothes in. Career Planning and Placement, feels that The 1986 Michigan Ensian often made students are taking courses that they feel the point that the 1980s are a time of dy- they need to and specializing in areas that namic growth and that the future is fast they feel they have to. It ' s very sad, but too rising up to meet us. The prologue quoted a few students realize that education is in- Newsweek headling as trumpeting, THE tended to teach you how to look at a world TIMES, THEY HAVE A-CHANGED. of diversity, said Orr May. The truth of the statement is evident, but In a word, conservative. when present attitudes are compared with Another voice: Our membership picks those of the 1950s and other conservative up every month because it is now the in eras, it is also clear that the times, they have thing to be a Republican, declared senior a-remained the same, too. Studying Is one of the biggest and yet least fawn:. pasttimes around campus

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