Vanderbilt University - Commodore Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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Editors Notes For a Better Yearbook A yearbook can be a treasured record of your life here, but not if it is only the editor's book-it must be your book. A yearbook is for recording the basic happenings, but it is primarily for rememlirclnces. Pictures are a powerful tool toward this end but can never be a complete record, for not everything is recordable in visual terms. NVhen you, as an organizational head, are asked to write about your organization, please take some time and think. What made the organization yours as opposed to someone else's? VVho and what were the defining aspects of this year? VVhy was this year and not some other? You will group teetotaler went out to burn quickly forget the party where the became totally smashed, when you the SAE lions, or that costume party where the groupls stud came in drag. You will forget words, happenings, and activities that define a particular club, group, or team. It is to record these types of events that you have your space in the yearbook. It is these things and not the publicity or advertising aspects which make a yearbook pertinent and interesting to the student body. For excellent examples of good organizational writing please see the choir fp. l20j, the theater fp. 1082, or the Rugby team tp. 1705. the in any catch- The Commodore will be on a fall delivery for some time to come. This was done to allow a complete year to be covered. To insure complete, excellent, and hassle-free representation, PLEASE SEND US A LETTER TELLINC- US YOUR NAME, ORGANIZATION, BOX AND TELEPHONE NUMBER AT THE START OF THE YEAR. This will allow easier, quicker, and better coverage of your organization. Also, if you feel that your organization has been or will be slighted, please contact the editor early, so that he can make the appropriate space allocation. 2 About This Yearbook The theme of this year's book is irony in college life The style is thus direct, unadorned, and personable. The Comedos and Tragedos masks of the cover stand' as symbols of the broadest and, I feel, the most appropriate type. College is, paradoxically, the most lamentable comedy and the most farcical tragedy ever contained under one tent. On the broadest level the masks symbolize the liberal arts. VVhen one is versed in the liberal arts one theoretically has a feeling for human experience and endeavor, is cultured, has class. A liberal arts graduate can supposedly continue learning without being taught, and can handle himself, he has many different masks which he can use appropriately in a wide range of situations. Vanderbilt, as well as other liberal arts schools, is not 'in my opinion preparing students in this classical liberal arts tradition. Students are taught very little of self-direction. This is why so many people will clutch at graduate professional programs. They don't have to figure out what to do with their lives ffor a while, anywayj, but are instead processed into lawyers, doctors, etc. On another level the mask symbolizes irony, the irony of college in the mid-seventies. We go to college to find a future-more often we lose one. We were all to be high-placed professionals back in high school, weren't We? It's funny that in a place where we are supposed to learn ideals we often learn to unlearn them. Itis funny how we find our parents to be so like us, or ourselves to be so like them. It's funny that we who were to conquer the world settle down as insurance salesmen. It's funny to see that we will never be ahead of the game. It's funny to understand that you can never fully understand. It's funny to leave. Thank you all, and best wishes, 9821 LV .gfcpvwuljl

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Tlw 1976 Commodore Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tn. - V' x O.-9 THE 1976 COMMODORE Copyright 1976 by V.S.C, inc. All Rights Reserved

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