University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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Year Characterized by Action, Inaotion The school year of 1967-68 at the University of Mis- souri will not be remembered in the future as one of great challenge to modern youth. Rather to the nearly 20,000 students at Columbia, it was a year much like many of the preceding years with the preservation of old traditions but also with significant new trends both good and bad. This was the Year of the Tigress Centennial cele- bration. This was the year that national politics invaded the campus in the form of the much maligned Republican Mock Political Convention. This was the year the Univers- ity students and Columbia residents experienced their first real protests beginning with the Chalk-In, Gentle Tuesday, Gentle Saturday, University Day case, Aggie-SDS clash in front of the Student Union, and the Vietnam protest. This was the year of the -first Independent Student operetta and the cancellation and possible permanent demise of Savitar Frolics. As usual, football coach Dan Devine guided the Tig- ers to another successful season with a 7-3 record. But much to the surprise of basketball fans, Norm Stewart fielded a rejuvenated team which won more games this season than in the past two years combined. Minor sports provided additional excitement as an outstanding wrestling team breezed to an almost undefeated season under the direction of Coach Hap Whitney. In MSA, only President john Leet and Secretary Sue Lowe remained in their positions as scholastic problems and disaffection thinned the ranks of the slate elected by the Entente party last year. Despite the death of Alliance, the campus' oldest political party, after five years, a new party was formed under the name of Vantage to challenge the two year control of Entente. Mired in petty politics, student government lived up to its traditional image by talking a great deal but accomplishing little. Noteworthy was the passage of a bill by the MSA Senate proposing that the University become a member of the NSA for at least a trial period. Through the initiative of MRHA, all sophomores in good standing were given the right to operate a car on campus. AWS reorganized its administrative structure and liberalized its senior key program by extending the privi- lege to junior students living in dormitories and sorority houses. The 1968 SAVITAR presents a record of the events of the past year.