University of North Carolina Chapel Hill - Yackety Yack Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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exquisite agony of these questions lies the gift that Carolina has to offer each of us. If we have passed through this time — when we have been most intensely and expertly involved with the things of the mind without once questioning the nature, purpose and destiny of our lives, either we have failed the University, or Carolina has failed us. If all Carolina has come to t t t t t t Page 10

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tirely futile. Occasionally, beer breeds a valid fresh thought. Or an insight may arrive to the visceral beat of one of the infinite number of com- bos that circle in and about Chapel Hill, vying for the fraternity ' s favour. A pair of eyes, equally as intoxicated as our ovk ' n, sometimes ■ — for an in- stant • — become more knowing than Plato. Or walking down South Build- ing steps, facing the library ' s chal- lenging bulk, the thought may come that college is not forever, that all lives lead somewhere, and our own lives must go on from this small vil- lage. But where. ' ' And why. In the

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mean to us is Saturday ' s camaraderie in Kenan Stadium; collective disdain for Duke and Wake Forest and State; momentary friendships en- gendered by alcohol, the Hot Nuts, and madras-butted, heavy-haired co- eds; memories of Lenoir Hall food, final exams and other unpleasant relics that survive not for their sweet memorability, but for their sheer repetitiousness — if these things are all that remain, then our time and effort have been a colossal waste. It is difficult and painful to think of such a large undertaking as having been useless, but if we have gained nothing more than a class ring and a sheepskin and a subscription to Alumni Neu ' s, then we are the same as we were when we first came to Page 11