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

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Behind the windows of Benson Center 1 exists the core of all SCU activities; here, Kerry Form, Gil Gallardo, Mike Stephens, lack Lazar, and Mike Maciag — the executive board — work together in this home away from home. Yes, the pictures reveal that the rumors are true! The cubicle bike race actually happened, and although Gil Gallardo lost to Jack Lazar, the vice president of finance, he accepted his defeat with dignity. f? l Paul Lindblad VOTE! ASSCU asks all students to exercise their right and vote during the first week of May for all executive officers, senators, and class officers. Kevin Barry, Election chairman, chose a strategic voting booth location to remind and recruit potential voters. Explaining the most recent plans for the University expansion. President William Rewak, S), was the guest speaker at a spring quarter Senate meeting. A new communication building, the relocation of Buck Shaw Stadium, and an Italian residence community are among the highlights of the expansion. Ctieryl Hensley ASSCU: Associating Fun with Work 1 y

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ASSCU: Associating Fun with Work I ' m late again! This is the only thought that enters my mind as I race through Benson ' s doors. Making the four minute mile look like a tortoise race, I sprint past the crowd of dedicated General Hospital fans whose eyes are glued to the big screen. The unassuming beige door looms ahead. 1 throw open that door and enter the world of the Associated Students of the Santa Clara University. When Gil Gallardo offered me a job as a receptionist at the office of ASSCU, I was unsure what it would be like. No one could have prepared me for what I have encountered in the past six months. I have stopped calling it ASSCU. For me, CIRCUS much better suits the place. More chaotic than a Benson steak night with a decibel level higher than a Santa Clara St. Mary ' s basketball game, ASSCU is not just an office but an adventure. The social center in Benson 1 , an office that ASSCU shares with Student Activities, is the receptionist ' s area. Although decorated with only one couch and four chairs. by Vicky Vertson this social scene ' s popularity is second only to Orradre. Our fearless leaders, the executive board, are as familiar sights here as Santa Clara students are at Jack-in-the-Box at 1 a.m. Anyone, friend or foe, who treads into this area is an open target for good-natured abuse. Enter at your own risk and with an open mind. Among the many crazies, the only sane one in this circus is Lois Bonner, the accountant for Student Activities. ASSCU is a hub of activity. Class officers scurry in and out as they prepare social agendas for their Santa Clara constituents. Club officers are also hard at work preparing various events. The color coded diagram on the wall assists anyone who needs help locating a cubicle. I must mention the infamous Santa Clara Cubicle Bike Race. Yes this really is a bike race. Participants ride their cycles along the circular path that separates the sets of cubicles in the office. To complete the 200 yard race, cyclists must dodge people poles, chairs and walls. Jack Lazar retains the title of reigning champ with a remarkable time of 13 seconds for two laps. Social Presentations has its own spacious environment known as the back room. I am not quite sure what goes on back there, but whatever they do, they do it at all hours. Don ' t get me wrong, working in ASSCU is not all game playing. I can joke about the crazy things that go on, but everyone in the office has responsibilites that they take seriously. Many hours, day and night, every day of the week, are spent trying to keep ASSCU running smoothly. The Executive Board, the Senate, Social Presentations, Student Activities, and club and class officers organize numerous projects for the students. Movies in Daly Science or Mayer Theater; videos, concerts, and dances in Spotlights; committees like the Presidential Advisory Committee and the Varsity Sports Committee; guest speakers and comedy nights, and so much more have been planned and carried out by the people working in Benson 1. n ' i .V Paul Lindblad Sometimes working for ASSCU entails doing odd jobs around the office like wheeling around your invalid advisor; this year Mark DeLucchi got the job when Sean Corey broke his leg playing volleyball. 1 8 student Life

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Talkin ' About Our Generation Once there was a liberal arts school called the University of Santa Clara. At the University, students spent much of their time discussing important social and philosophical issues, instead of worrying about their Business Policies in Administration with Regards to Finance for Non-Majors classes. For fun, they would take impromptu naps in front of marching ROTC classes, or they would contemplate the rights of the cows who were made into Steak Night. To them, conservative meant half an acid tab. They lived the sexual revolution, and they called the police the fuzz. There have been many changes in student life since the sixties. The school is now called Santa Clara University, which reduces the number of use ' s in California to one. And we, today ' s students, have also changed. Long gone are the days of the evil sixties, when our law-breaking parents ran through our now calm and quiet halls. Boy, aren ' t we lucky? The eighties are the greatest! The sexual revolution is definitely over, replaced by legions of clear-thinking, chastity- minded young adults. The focus of college education has moved towards by Larry Rosen career preparation, marketability, financial goals — nasty concepts, all of them. Students have stopped turning on to LSD, and have started turning on to IBM. Fm all but lost trying to figure out how we became so wonderful. Students today have a tremendous perspective on priorities. It seems hard to believe, but it was during our lifetimes that people could go to college, ev n a University, and come out with no marketable skills! A major in philosophy! Horror stories! It just makes me warm all over to know that we ' re so fortunate to be in college now. No, we ' re not fortunate. It ' s no accident. We ' ve worked to make our campuses drug-free, and sex-free, and to get rid of the shiftless wastrals who cluttered up our halls with their paperback books, and wasted our class time with their comments. More importantly, our minds are clear and committed toward the one truly concrete thing in life: careers. Careers with a house in the suburbs, and a Chevy Suburban, and a dog named King. America is heading back where it should be, and we ' re the ones who are doing it. God bless us. The class of 1987 ' s Tina Lynch brought back memories of earlier eighties as the audience watched her receive her diploma from University President, William Rewak, S]. Punk philosophy and style were not as popular in 1987, but their influences were still felt in the music and liberal thinking of some students. 20 student Life