University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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U is City Within a City Introducing: The University of Minnesota in profile. The Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul meet at the Uni- versity, a city in its own way. Grain elevators, corner gro- cery stores, airports, large department stores, movie theaters, apartment buildings — all these things are a part of the world around the University. Rivers, bridges, streets — they pass around and through the campus. Yet the University could be self-sufficient. It is a 30,00()-member metropolis of living and learning.

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' til - - Contents Student Life 24 Organizations . . . 120 Sports 280 Academic 360 Indices: Organizations . . . 448 Section 449 General 450

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« • • » - tt i , . --mim m It . :- ' r- m m ' r« ' 1W5T ' , -. r-.-Ai-- ' - ■ ' ' i-: . i. One does not usually take a sideways look at a school. Maybe one should not, but the University is interesting even from that point of view. The west side of the campus is across the Washington Ave. bridge. Someday it may be a city in its own way, but now it is a part of the east campus. Commuters come to the University from all sides. They walk, take buses, ride bicycles, drive cars. When they are all here, the busy, sometimes happy, sometimes humdrum day begins. A lot of famous people live and work at the University. A lot of not-so-famous people are here, too. But one does have to be important on campus. You can be anybody at all and still go to classes, buy books at the bookstores, eat in the cafeterias, talk to professors, walk along the river in spring. Any building is open for you to visit and the mall is a carpet laid out in greeting. The University belongs to all its people and they are what makes life and learning possible.