University of Southern California - El Rodeo Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENT

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E: You are the only one I know that really understands me. I ' m not sure that you do actually, but I have this innate feeling that tells me, he can help you. So what I want to ask you is something that I wouldn ' t ask just anybody. As a matter of fact, I wouldn ' t even ask you if I didn ' t think you could help me. But I know you can so I am going to. Actually I ' ve hinted around to a lot of people I know like professors, students and maintenance men, but I just didn ' t have the nerve to come right out with it like I ' m doing with you. This is a very personal question and I don ' t want to put you on the spot. I want you to think about it a minute and then tell me what you really think. I mean how you really feel about it. I guess you could say I want your true feelings about it and not some cliche or anything like that. Because, really, if you are going to be evasive about it, you can just forget the whole thing. Either you want to tell me or you don ' t, it is as simple as that. But you must be completely honest, all fight? OK then. What I want to know is why am I here?

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The environment of our university may be considered in two different aspects: the physical and the intellectual. As far as the immediate physical surroundings are concerned, our campus does not differ greatly from other American schools exist ing over a period of time. There are high rise dormitories which contrast with build- ings from other periods of architecture, and there is a certain amount of grass and trees and a few quiet spots where a per- son can be alone with his thoughts. Parts of our campus are undergoing a physical transition which will provide better facili- ties for the interaction of students and teachers. Finally too, our campus is becom- ing more of a unit. Long ago. University Avenue was blocked off, then came the walls of Troy, and recently, Hoover Boulevard and Hoover Street lost the dis- rupting influence of public thoroughfare. However, in becoming a unit, we become doubly aware of the outside environment, the community. Here, our school joins the special class of urban universities, or streetcar schools. Adjacent to us are museums, businesses, boulevards and freeways, and people largely from a low economic group. This outside environment naturally influ- ences the more intrinsic one, the intellec- tual, cultural, and social life. Being near the heart of Los Angeles eliminates the horrendous distance factor of getting to plays, operas and concerts, however, our students sometimes travel many miles to attend parties in private homes.