University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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UT PRESS PUBLISHES A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST SELLER Normally a publisher of scholarly works, the University of Texas Press stepped outside its academic sphere to publish The Book of Merlyn, T. H. White ' s conclusion to The Once and Future King. White ' s manuscript was discovered in the Humanities Research Center in 1975 and published in 1977. It eventually appeared on the New York Times Top 10 Best Seller List.

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THE YEAR Whether for a Conference champion football team, a Nobel Prize winner, or the four-millionth volume acquired by the Library System, the Tower blazed orange so frequently that students almost took its bril- liant hue for granted and rightly so. It was a year of achievements for the First Class University. The Texas Longhorn football team was her- alded as the Number One team in the nation for awhile. The basket- ball team was the first Southwest Conference team to win the National Invitational Tournament. Humble halfback Earl Campbell brought home the University ' s first Heisman Trophy. Texas momentum was in high gear. Then Dr. Ilya Prigogine won the 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemis- try, making him the University ' s first Nobel laureate. The new Perry- Castaneda Library and 17,000-seat Special Events Center accommo- dated a University population which had doub led in 10 years. But the UT community sometimes questioned the validity of the term first class institution. In a Spring referendum, students voted to abolish the Stu- dents ' Association and a mild stir arose over the administrative fate of the Division of General and Comparative Studies. Whatever their consequences, these events converged to form a Uni- versity of the First Class.