University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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Although only Visitors, we need not feel strangers to the University. It provides a warm, open atmosphere which encourages freedom of thought. The quiet beauty of the University embraces those who accept freedom with the responsibility that goes alon . It is good to those who are open to lige and love it.

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CDear CReader, Welcome to the world of the SAVITAR 1979. It is a world of life, the life of the University in one year. In words and pictures this life exists, a shared experience with you, the reader. It is a wonderful world - complex, interesting, entertaining. It is a never-ending experience. But it cannot be one-sided. The SAVITAR is a process, an interaction between you and the book. We hope that it will be a beneficial exchange, from which an awareness will form. An awareness of what the world is, and as a result, an understanding of what the self is. Perhaps it is also the dis- covery of a bond between world and self. What is a University? The Ameri- can Heritage Dictionary defines it in this way: iiUniversity: lyoo,na- vurisa-telnw pl. ties. Abbr., U., Univ., 1. An institution for higher learning with teaching and research facilities comprising a graduate school and professional schools that award mas- ter,s degrees and doctorates and an undergraduate division that awards bachelofs degrees. 2. The buildings and grounds of a university. 3. The Students and faculty of a university regarded as a body. tfrom Latin uni- versaus, wholef, Let us look at this definition beginning with the first part. In one way Or another, everyoneis life at the University, or in the area is affected by this institution for higher learn- lng, It is a place where manis abilities have the chance to flourish and mature Via the passing of knowl- edge. The teacher, researcher and learner all contribute to this wonder- ful environment which miraculously Combines new and old. This is what makes the University an institution. It IS an entity engaged in continuing the process of invisible creation through knowledge. Knowledge soaks in, spreads and eventually re- juvenates on that which it gives. The SAVITAR can show only shadows of this invisible process by the reac- tions of the people engaged in it. It is left for you to reach out and experi- ence this abstract, magic quality of the University. The second part of the definition - the University as buildings and grounds - can easily be overlooked as trite or obvious, but even the ob- vious can be rich with newness if looked at in the right way. The phys- ical presence of the University shapes the way its community lives. From the University in the city of Columbia in the State of Missouri in the United States of America comes a substantial, yet subtle influence. Each facet of the campus, every building, room, seat gently guide us. We hope you feel this as you turn the pages. Feel the brisk autumn walks through swirls of leaves. Feel the steady presence of stately buildings. Feel the cool shadows of the ageless columns bearing down with the late afternoon sun, and quietly re- member. Remember how each per- son who walks by these buildings and grounds is reminded ofhis trans- ience at the University and the world. A great part of life is influ- enced by the world which surrounds and nourishes it. The world of the University forms a culture from which our vision of the world may grow. Looking through the SAVITAR you will find the many faces of University places. Some will be familiar, some strange, but all are important. With the third part of our defini- tion we come to the thing that makes the SAVITAR 1979 different from any book ever -- its people. The people of the University of Missouri this year are beautifully different. Each individual personality com- bines with others to make a greater collective personality. The pages of this yearbook offer windows to see this part of the University as never seen before. The SAVITAR was here, witnessing a creation, the un- folding of a new entity. As a year- book, the SAVITAR is also a documentary, recording history that was and is the University. By documentation, the SAVITAR does not feign objectivity, for the year- book itself played a part in making the year. A more appropriate term would be perspective. Just as the 23,000 people that make up this in- stitution experience it in a slightly different way, so does the SAVITAR. The yearbook experiences and feels this time and space and shares it. It is as friend, the SAVITAR wishes to share precious moments from the past year. The time can never be re- gained, yet the year lives. It lives each time you look at the yearbook. In doing so you participate in it. By the magic mixture of memory and life, of words and pictures, on paper and in your mind, an experience not achievable in any other way exists. The SAVITARI ves not as a closed record which puts an arbitrary end- ing on the year, but as a book alive. It is alive because of you -- the reader. The yearbook shares an awareness with you of life at the University of Missouri 1979. It is a good life. En- JOY- The Editors, SAVITAR 1979

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