University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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n 1971, when the Tyee last appeared, the average college student was idealistic, socially oriented, and liberal. The students of the ‘70s fought for the rights and equality of minorities, women, and homosexuals. They were against the Vietnam War and tradition. Change the world, they said; make it better. Now, as the Tyee returns in 1986, the average college student is personally oriented, pragmatic and conservative. The ideals yesterday’s student fought for are generally com- monplace thinking today. College men and women are equally very career-oriented and secretly desire to be yuppies (young urban professionals). Today, we want stability, tradition and a job. We want it all — but as far as we’re concerned, it’s every person for him or herself. So what happened? What changed the college student’s way of thinking? According to UW Associate Professor of Sociology Pepper Schwartz, economic climate is a factor. The baby boom entered a world where there were “The 1970 Tyee may be one of the last of the big time yearbooks. Students across the nation are protesting tradition and rejecting anything connected to the old way. The annual is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. This trend is expected to bury all yearbooks. — Tyee 1970, Volume 71, p. 480

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utsiil Mar vn Oi crgtc ihc I c UaOiccc hfcwina (insf Tunc 1971 p. 69 Ukecpouo A surprisingly large group — nearly 200 students — showed up yesterday in the Communications Building for a meeting of prospective 1986 Tyee yearbook staff members. Wow, said (Barbara) Krohn, publisher of UW Student Publications. We knew there was sentiment out there for the return of the yearbook and for working on it, but we underestimated how much sentiment. — Daily, October, 1985, p. 10 numerous positions opening up,” says Schwartz. Nowadays, the people following the baby boom are encountering fewer positions and the economic climate is much less hospitable. Students in the '70s weren't too concerned about what they were going to do after college, remarks UW Director of Academic Counseling Richard Simkins. “They were thinking about the social ills and how to correct them. Because of more opportunities in the early '70s peo- ple took a less serious approach to their lives. Everybody was risk-taking in a way,” says UW Placement Counselor Rick Fite. You could sail around the world, do something interesting. If you do that now, you'd just lose your place in line. And with the gains of the minority and women’s movements, the job scene has changed dramatically. There are so many women in the work force, it really has caused higher standards and more competition,” Fite observes. (tntintud...