University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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 GOTHIC ARC! Adm STRIKING, DlfTAILfech r» cti; ■CRWR'VEAT Certainly, the social movements of the late ’60s and ’70s made positive gains for society. But these days, sometimes “it’s harder to agree with Affirmative Action when it might be your job they’re after, ’ says Schwartz. The fact is, very few people-like to share what might be theirs. They’ll share it a lot easier if they knew they’ll get some, too.’’ With stiffer competition, students of the ’80s are thinking more practically and realistically, becoming highly goal-oriented to avoid getting lost in the shuffle. As opposed to the '70s strong youth orientation (’’don’t trust anyone over 30”), Fite observes, I think the young people of today would just as soon be 40 and have a lot of this out of the way.” So why our careful conservatism? Why aren’t we making angry waves as in the ’70s? The ideals yesterday’s students fought to uphold are today taken for granted. We aren't surprised by female engineering majors or minority medical students. When you don’t have what you want, you’re more driven (to fight) than those who do have what they want, says Schwartz. “So it's been much less activism in the last ten years. You can be more-idealistic when you don’t think it’s going to cost you.” Of course, the intention here isn’t to create concrete stereotypes of the average college students. Certainly 4 theme

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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...

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there were students in the early 70s working for their MBA's. And many of today’s students hold social concerns as evidenced by apartheid protests and campaigns against world hunger. Still, to be a corporate executive in the early 70s was not ‘‘hip”; as for social movements today, “it's not that people aren’t concerned, but it doesn't have the same urgency as it did,” says Simkins. A 15-year gap. More than a decade of change. While the return of the Tyee can’t possibly cover in detail all the reasons for the change, we hope you will get a taste for what it must have been like to be a Husky at some point since 1971. What you'll find will be very interesting and enlightening. And so, without further delay, let the construction of the bridge begin . . . by Beatrix Pascual theme 5