University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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3 .2. rmww w 5 :W x WP m Wm mmmw :wmmw wmm Thatts right. YOU. Do you want to know what people are saying behind your back? What they think about you, your school, your actions, your life? Well, herets your chance. Six Columbia townspeople, from different parts of town, of various occupations, chosen en- tirely at random, and who have never met one another to the best of our knowledge, consented to discuss the University and its people. In the interviews, they were guided only by very general questions. Subjects range from radical young professors to University financial policy. The next twelve pages are theirs. Produced and Photographed by Jim Magdanz

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Theyire plague until they re older Ilm not saying Columbia wouldnlt be here, but the business would not be here if it weren,t for the students. Of course, business comes in anticipation of what is going to be; there is no doubt that the students, or the university, or the colleges constitute a large part - either the instructors or the students themselves. I think the economics that Columbia gains is from positions the university offers the people in town, not necessarily the money the students spend here. The townspeople that the university hires; the maintainance people, the garage people - therels a pretty good sized payroll over there. I think the economic impact of the students is in certain areas of town. In certain businesses, the students are the backbone. From the ages of, Pd say, 18 to 24 or 25, people donlt really know, they donlt really have goals. In that particular time in their life, they are looking for what they want to do. As far as taking up a curriculum or heading up a career when they are 18 or 19, or even 20 years old, is, to me, a little ridi- culous. There is no way they can know, when they graduate from school and have done well in what they have studied to be, whether there are other things maybe they would like better or maybe they can do better. How do they know? You have to have some experiences. iDid you feel this way when you were 18 or 19?l The thing I am aware of now, I think, is that I was never aware of this until I got older and older. I really didnlt get any wiser. I Just got more aware. Say youlre sitting down to think about what youlld like to do. Maybe youlld think about it for two weeks, or two months, or two years, but if you pursue some direction, and itls wrong, youlre spending 40 years of your life in something you spent only two years deciding to do.