University of Santa Clara - Redwood Yearbook (Santa Clara, CA)

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One way to tell what kind of mood people are in is to listen to the music they like, and the tastes at SCU reflect the trend towards plain good fun and away from world-saving concerns. Ten years ago, Crosby, Stills and Nash urged us to Please come to Chicago and protest the war, while Bob Dylan assured us the The answer, my friend, is blowin ' in the wind. According to a poll taken this year, the most popular performer on campus is a gutsy rock and roll singer who dresses like a New Jersey punk. Bruce Springsteen weaves miniature epics about what goes on in Jersey ' s streets of fire. His songs are about aimless lower class kids who have no intention of ever setting foot on a college campus, much less attending a small, private, Jesuit university. But his songs are about hot cars and sex and guns and cops and the animal instincts that arise in the jungleland called inner-city New Jersey. He has romanticized a world which the students at SCU, from such ghettos as Saratoga and Los Altos Hills and Portola Valley, will never know. For the average student, Springsteen ' s streets of fire are about as familiar as King Arthur ' s land of dragons and chivalry.

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So there ' s a mood of make-believe, of escapism, at SCU, which, as I said before, is one very good way to have fun. At the May Faire, students entered into what has become a Santa Clara tradition with more enthusiasm than ever. While guys all over campus promenaded in their girlfriends ' leotards, girls managed somehow to come up with colorfully elaborate Medieval gowns. Combatants bludgeoned each other for sport while magicians and Ye Olde May Faire Players entertained crowds, and everyone scarfed delicious exotic foods until Benson was not even a consideration. It was spring, it was warm, and SCU was in a particularily good mood that day. But Santa Clara in 1979 is not a place where people merely play all day. If the school ' s mood is less troubled by social problems than in years past, its mood is not a whole lot less serious. People simply get serious about different things. They get most serious about their personal endeavors. Some get serious about their GPAs — I wanna get into graduate school — some get serious about their athletics, and some get serious about their art.