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

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The Professionalization T Each year, the debates continue. Each year, graduating seniors scurry around campus, to the Career Choice informa- tion center in Jester, to professors and advisors, to departmental placement offices, in search of their first job. For students in demand in their respective fields, such as engineering, the prospects were good. For those in say, humanities, they were less promising. Students have been turning towards earlier professionalization for the past five or six years, mounting an early quest for mega-bucks. For many, the answer continued to be a graduate degree, though that number, according to the School of Business placement office, was much smaller than the number of stu- dents who went immediately to work. To help cement the contacts made while an undergraduate at UT, many pro- fessional organizations existed. The larger colleges often had five organiza- tions within the college, each with slightly different goals and membership. These groups provided valuable career inform- ation through speakers. Most students in these professional degree programs appeared to have few worries about their job prospects in the early 80s. Similarly unworried about their first jobs were the cadets in the Reserve Offi- cer Training Corps Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines. Approximatley one percent of all UT students were enrolled in the ROTC programs this year. The training focused on development of leadership, management and disciplinary skills. Academically, technical subjects were the norm, though a liberal arts pro- gram could be followed and with a guarantee of having a job upon gradua- tion. Early professionalization, academically or militarily, brought with it its own prob- lems. The School of Business was forced to institute stricter requirements for admission into its upper-division sequence. The military services, with increased budgets, continued to look for a few more good people. 18

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rVes hale! Good lords and ladies fair, e bid thee welcome, we bid thee share four feasting and our revelry, Our music and our company. SJnstick thy mind from the present day, Let it come with us, let it fly away ijpn wings of laughter, wings of song, igs that carry each along ' o a special time and special place tfhat magically, mystically cares erase. |fhe time is fourteen seventy-five .he place is England, so be alive HAnd choose a role for thee that ' s right, Duke, Duchess, Lord or Knight. This room is now a castle hall And we are players one and all. Lords and ladies, one and all, Join us in the Banquet Hall. The path ahead, it may be winding, But at the end thou wilt be finding Pleasures aplenty for eye and ear; So let ' s be gone then, with good cheer. Good friends, as we now bid adieu, We pray our love has helped renew The joy of the holiday season for you. But if our songs are now to live Within they heart, then thou must give Thy love, as we did give this eve. So as our farewell now we sigh, Remember us as we will thee. Music when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory. From the script of the First Annual Madrigal Din- ner, written by Vita Thompson. Held 4, 5, 6 Decem- ber, 1980 in the Texas Union Ballroom, presenting authentic fare of Tudor England: regal madrigals, music of the period, and a multitude of merrymak- Servants give the Banquet Hall the finishing touches before the feast begins. Inset: William Norico, the Court Jester. Led by Dr. Alaire Lowry, members of Coro D ' Amici fill the Banquet Hall with joyous songs. 17

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F I he Tn-Service Military Color Guard passes in review before the President of the University and other administration officials in the annual Military Review 19