University of Massachusetts Amherst - Index Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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The University is a complex experience comprised of many. Many form the substructure produc- ing the basis of such a complex. Many are a part of a school year marked with fluctuations; the high points and the low. Many feel sor- row, defeat, exhiliration — emotions common to all. Within the complex of many how- ever, exists the single entity. He is a part of the underlying substructure, a unique part — known more to himself than others. He is the crea- tor of the fluctuating highs and lows and he too feels the sorrow, the ex- hiliration. But as much as the indi- vidual is a part of the complex ex- perience, it is his uniqueness, his individuality which rises above the complex and becomes each indi- vidual ' s character. For though he as a person may par- take in the ups and downs ; it is his ups and downs that become im- portant. Though he may feel sorrow and defeat with the many, it is a feeling unique to him alone. It is this individual, the one within the many, that makes up the Uni- versity ' s complex. O H 2 X UJ D Z a UJ D X U O H UJ 2 D UJ D g Cn p UJ Z D w X H UJ (-0 D X u CD if) 10 Uh o UJ