University of Denver - Kynewisbok Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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Metropolitan Denver—the atmosphere oi the University of Denver. Dedication The metropolitan college has a unique challenge facing it—that of maintaining a university-like atmosphere in the midst of outside influences. But this cosmopolitan atmosphere can also be an advantage and foreign influences, and distractions can prove stimulating as well as educational. Typifying this metropolitan college is the University of Denver, located in the midst of a city of 750,000 people. Its College of Business Administration is situated in the heart of metropolitan Denver's business district, just across the street from the May-D F, one of the world's most modern department stores; the Denver Hilton, Denver's largest and newest hotel; the Civic Center and Capitol buildings, and a block away from 4

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Contents . . . p. 66 Classes Jan Randle, Joyce Mickley, editors 180 Sports P- Don Smith, editor Traditions Elnora Warren, editor

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the Mile High Center Office Building and banking district. This atmosphere provides students with the opportunity to gain practical experience in their chosen professions while still in college. The College of Arts and Sciences, while located in a residential area some distance from the downtown business district, also benefits from DU's cosmopolitan atmosphere. Theatre majors on the University Park Campus produce plays supported by Denver patrons. Education majors have the opportunity to student teach in Denver's diversified school system. Social Science majors can attend lectures and political speeches, such as the one given by Senator Robert Kennedy during the last fall's autumn quarter. Students from the DU College of Engineering, also located on the University Park Campus in residential Denver, gain practical experience from working with some of Denver's largest and most modern building and construction projects. But one problem facing the metropolitan university is the tendency for a student to get lost in a community that does not center around him or his college. Therefore, special attention is given to the individual student— to his studies, his activities, his social life—his own particular life as a student. This 1960 Kynewisbok is dedicated to the student of the metropolitan college—the student at the University of Denver.