University of San Francisco - USF Don Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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San Francisco has always opened itself to USF. In recent years, the role of the City has changed, however, from a passive lecture hall to an active laboratory. Through such organizations as the Student Western Addition Project (SWAP) and the Urban Life Institute (ULI), the University community has firmly committed itself as a participant, and not merely as a spectator, in the life of San Francisco. Headed by Dr. Ralph Lane, SWAP gives students a chance to share the benefits of their education with racial minorities and the mentally retarded. ULI, under the direction of Dr. Jack Curtis, moves a bit deeper into the life of San Francisco. Its workers deal with both racial and other types of minorities: the hippies of the Haight-Ashbury District, the social outcasts residing in the Tenderloin, and persons displaced by urban renewal. 8

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The campus is not only tied to the City through service projects. San Francisco has been a politically-oriented town ever since Boss Ruef and his corrupt gang took over City Hall. Many alumni are deeply involved in politics, both on the local and national level. In this election year, both Young Republicans and Young Democrats have made their presence felt on the Hilltop, and the visit of Senator Robert Kennedy to USF increased the political tempo. The issue of the war in Vietnam is always a topic of conversation, and the “New Left University Peace Forum has kept both the war and the question of the University’s commitment to the war through compulsory ROTC a lively issue. All students are not inclined to the activist life, however, and San Francisco offers them a wide variety of ways to spend their time. They can browse or buy in innumerable shops, visit art galleries and museums, or just relax in any number of drinking establishments. . 10