Valparaiso University - Beacon / Record Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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The Great American Dream or so they tell us. The be ALL end All of the Modern Mass Culture. A one-way street to the Button- down world of the middle class. A college educationeor more exactlyea college Diploma. The tangible passport to Success . or so they tell us. iTTheyiT tell us a lot of things: ignore the double standard, go to Church on Sunday, and love your Mother, God, and Country. And if you get a chance, grow up Republican, Mis- souri Synod, play bridge, and Never learn what a Bagel is; Its easy. Adopt the prescribed values, accepted dress, and you get the Brass Ring, the $200, and never go to jail. But you canTt get anywhere without an education and everybody has to go somewhere-Logic, right? Therefore, polish that National Honor Society pin, apply for College: youire home Free. And with mother looking on Tearfully, your Fly zipped, and the Samsonite in hand, you hop on the Yel- low Brick road for the hmost wonderful four years of your life, . . . or so they tell us. It7s a trip tto use the current vernaculari to a culture seemingly quite alien to the one were being trained to enter. Self-analysis, criticism, questioning come easy where time is plentiful and adult responsibility is lightebut consideration of the Individual above the mass, 3 simple Groping for the composite Me, Faith versus Unfaith seem to us a justifiable substitute for the 9am to 5pm Values of the outside world. The Outside world. We are ideally expected to explore this itoutside worldiTenot necessarily in Yevtushenkots Mystical manner but nonetheless take a Look, Poke, and a Feel at whatis There: at the big Trick or Treat Mask, full of inconsistencies and rights and wrongs, a credibility gap a Mile Wide: Tillichis Age of Broken Symbols. . Dizmks EMATO JQIEE..M ltK......... 9PM? w 7W! .. . .. er Macatars. .. . i 01196?th

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I live quietly and crack nuts I gently steam with engines, But not without refiection on these times, These times, my loving meditation. Don,t worry. Yours is no unique condition, Your type of search and conflict and construction. Donot worry if you have no answer ready To the lasting question. Hold out, meditate, listen. Explore Explore . . . Beacon 68: A Yearbook Yevgeny Yevtushenko Valparaiso U ni versi ty . . o . . Valparazso, Indiana oZlma J unctlono,

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