University of Victoria - Tower Yearbook (Victoria, British Columbia Canada)

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Campus life was using Playboy nudes to dress up dance notices. . among the Apathists and lratists began to carry black umbrellas to shield them on the long, long walk from parking facilities to buildings and to mark them as college menf' Yetchers, on the other hand, refused to carry umbrellas for that very reason. Rather than be identihed with Apathists and lratists, they preferred to be soaked. This, too, was the era of grahtti or wall writing. Perhaps the best appeared on a SUB bulletin board during the dismissal hassle: GOD IS NOT DEAD - the Dean just didnt renew his contract? XVhic.h brings to mind the nuns. There were a lot of them. Or there seemed to be, anyway. Perhaps it was the black habit that made them stand out in any crowd. At any rate, even the rugby team could see them coming and adjust its language accordingly. The nuns were a good influence. Of course, some people didn't like to ask them what denomination they were, but once you got over the hurdle of asking them, things were all right. lf the nuns stood out the most, those who stood out the least were the Science People. They were there all right. The Registrar had their numbers to prove it. But nobody was ever really sure when he'd seen one. They came out in force, however, at Open House, and thats when all doubts about the existence of Science is-.. ..i Jin il1.ii?'e t 112252 People were disspelled. Perhaps to prove their reality, they set up multitudes of exhibits - including a gyrating nude to shock Little Old Ladies. Open House was an interesting experience for students as well as Little Old Ladies. The townspeople came to see what their taxes were being spent on, and many were appalled when they saw students putting their feet on taxpayer-paid-for tables. So what else was Campus Life?,' you ask out there in Posterity-Land. WVell, it was drinking beer and looking at comely young women for comely young men, if you happened to be a comely young woman yourself J. The favourite hangout of affluent students was The Snug in Oak Bay where the cheapest beer wm 50 cents a bottle, but for that 50 cents you got oodles of atmosphere Qphoney, of course, but atmosphere nonethelessj. For the less fortunate, Ingie-burgers were a frequent lunch or dinner substitute. And occasionally the SUB got a liquor licence, and you could combine drinking and opposite-sex-watching. lf you were a girl, living in residence might be part of Campus Life, and if it was, you started to identify with Audrey Hepburn in The Nunfs Story Qwhich was an old movie even in 1967 You also might have come to regard the inevitable, proliferating commissionaires as protectors of your virtue. Everybody else regarded them as a political force, slightly to the right of Adolf Hitler.

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drink coffee and rip up plastic coffee cups. Some people even ate the food. But the big attraction of the food services was the conversation. This was where the beer-hall putsches and Das Kapilals of later years were first talked about: HReally I've never been out with a boy so fast. You know how most of them work just one hand at a time? NVell, heis two hands and Everywhere! Yes, she does have lovely blonde hair, doesn't she? She's getting it all the same color now too. How many students at the University of Victoria? You just count the number of rumours about faculty dismissals and divide by three. You can't tell the player without a pogromf' Status and snobbery were also to be seen at food- service gatherings. S For example, some smoked pipes, others cigars and still others rolled their own cigarettes. Others perversely stressed their virtue by not smoking at all. These differences tended to cut across Iratist-Apathist-Yetcher lines. Indeed, some emaneipated young women took to smoking pipes and cigars. In a few cases, this resulted in the swift and total emancipation of their digestive tracts. Umbrellas were another example of snobbery and - more important - inverse snobbery. The snobbish

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3 Campus Life was talking about sex Qthe New Moralityj , plays QWaiting for Godotj and movies QA Man For All Seasons or Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?j . It was discussing comic strips QPeanuts, The Wizard of Ia' and Li!! Abnefs treatment of Joan Baezj. It was girls with long hair and high boots. It was , juuuu .' Q 1 his - if OPLE N 4 'Y' Av-N . 5-ES2'A3'R U . . . grafitti, opposite-sex watching, social justice and student politicians boys with long hair and high boots. It was meditating on the ramifications for lack of ramificationsj of Twiggy, the bosomless, bottomless model who was sweeping America. Campus Life was the Tijuana Brass which poured out endlessly from UVic Radio fit was the only record they hadj . Campus Life was calling somebody Ubabyw or being called ubabyw yourself, in imitation of the radical movement in the U.S. QAS Adam Clayton Powell put it, '4Keep the faith, babyu In the same vein, Campus Life was talking about Hbeautifuli' men - meaning, of course, their souls. Campus Life was wondering whether the sign on the bulletin board: HTake a trip to Green Mountainw was advertising a ski outing or an LSD-pot party. Campus Life was looking at Playboy and using Playboy nudes to dress up dance notices on bulletin boards. 'LSounds like the decline of the Roman Empire? you say out there in Posterity-Land. Well, maybe. But don't judge too harshly, Posterity. Remember, the people you're judging are your mummsies and your daddsies. ,i ' rfsncotuwari .tgggam ,-, -N snzmg ' ifiwCiUN1CTI0N .. Q 'sl H 1 i ' ' ' ' iv , ..:, ,.., 1 TH L K Cixiizr' UI ll 0: P 'Y' '