University of Maine - Prism Yearbook (Orono, ME)

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to pile up, pressure inevit- ably builds. Students who haven't been anywhere near the building suddenly appear in the library's Ookes Room every night, or they become regulars in the dorm study lounge. -' l' l' .. uy up I, t .w .r

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An overwhelming prepon- derance of four years at Maine is devoted to learn- ingesterile or otherwise. Perhaps 50 per cent of the process is spent in the classroom. The art project ends up on display in the Library foyer. Four term papers crowd into the last four weeks of the semes- ter. Only one out of twenty books is discovered in the stocks. What comes after college? Shall I join the Peace Corps or work through the Nathaniel Branden Institute? Three years here and suddenly inspiration: this major is all wrong, Engineering is not for me; I'll do inde- pendent study in psychol- ogy. Four prelimstomorrow, but bridge lasted until 2 0.m. in the morning. Although evolving under a less com- petitive atmosphere than prevails at many colleges, when assignments begin

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But there is another as- pect to leorning-seIf-ex- pression and the search for identification. Student- sponsored lectures and debates drow interested crowds. Students who don't have time to join 0 full-time acting corps- the Maine Mosque e participate in laboratory plays. Others act in orig- inal dramas or reading groups at the Coffee House, or else they attend the presentations, or per- haps they are students who choose the Coffee House as a quiet thinking spot. Musical groups rate high on the list of student activ- ities.