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

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he famed ' Bronco ' seems to hold a healthy respect for arts as well as a taste for Budweiser. 10

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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.

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:f; : w I One place where students get serious is in Mayer Theatre. As a later article, Tartuffe: The Making of a Play demonstrates, even the staging of a comedy is bittersweet hard work. SCU ' s opening production, The Lion in Winter, was a forceful, professional production, and students flocked to the theatre. They did all year. And they flocked to de Saisset and they flocked to the dance concerts. They jammed Fine Arts classes and they ran their own gallery, the Freightdoor. The famed Bronco then, must hold a healthy respect for the arts as well as a taste for Budweiser. There are some other Bronco stereotypes that might de disintegrated as well. The SCU jock, for instance. Santa Clara students love sports, there is little doubt of that. What ' s interesting is that students here would rather play than cheer on. While the stands in Buck Shaw go half empty, the intramural football fields are overcrowded. Intramural basketball extends far into spring and at any given hour of the day the sidewalks around SCU reverberate with the slapping of Nike waffle trainers. The health kick that is sweeping America has found a friendly home here, and the style of exercise reflects the peaceful, personal mood that hangs over the campus this year. A late night jog, an early morning racquetball game, a midday tennis match — these activities students apparently prefer to screaming themselves hoarse at a football game. Even SCU ' s home game basketball crowds have been criticized for not being vocal enough.