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

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UNC has various antidotes t0 loneli- ness, however. I searched for something to do in my spare time - and became a joiner. A campus political party was graced by my presence for half a semes- ter, while the Tempo Room proved to be a daily retreat from the outside world. A budding residence college program in- terested me for awhile but it did not rise above the level of the politicking found in a party convention. The only time I really felt part of the whole was when screaming, NGive tern Hell, Heelsrt Ev- eryone was bound to me by the electric cheerleader and for brief moments I was not alone. This group empathy came but once a week though, and the screaming was as much out of frustra- tion as of school spirit. '10 Yackcty Yuck

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In all its expanse of old and new, Ifelt the University of North Carolina was a good place to further my high school as- pirations to grandeur and social and in- tellectual attainment. The vitality of na- ture lived by the side of the man-made and created an environment stimulating t0 the growth and challenge of my four year stint. Anyway, thafs idealistically the way I felt in 1964. An overview of life in Chapel Hill during my years here will constitute the subject matter of the Yackts introduction. Almost immediately I was awed by the sprawling newness of so many of the buildings. They were architecturally functional, and some even won prizes for design, but they left me cold. And I found it hard to make friends in these sterile surroundings. It seemed as if ev- eryone was but an anxiously waiting face in front of the mailbox, or a room number in Craige dormitory. Even my sui'te-mates were virtual strangers. Yackety Yack 9

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