Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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The Olla Podrida tries to recall some of the things about that year --- a year, like others, through which we may glimpse an era of undergraduate life at Wesleyan.

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22wwx MW 5 3; Undergraduates return from summers far away as Middletown turns to autumn hues; the fortunes of the football team hold campus attention in be- tween the anxiety of Cuban crises, which fade into the shadow of the Middle- town-Olla Pod controversy, and the little crises of student life make their way from the first hour exams to the first papers. Completion of the Glass Cover- ed Conjunction consummately conjoins North with South College while Tuske- gee Exchange enjoys success and national elections return Democrats to the House. The class of 66, alone on Foss Hill, uneasily receives the first gestures of rushing by the fraternity men from High Street while both groups celebrate Fall House and then go home for Thanksgiving. Bleachers in the Cage an- nounce the beginning of basketball and winter sports, the Trustees plan future changes, and the Wesman leaves for Christmas. January: winter at Wesleyan, trips to Smith and papers due, tray-sliding on ice-covered Foss Hill, basketball games and midyear exams. Delayed rushing is tried for the first time, midst an epidemic of intestinal flu, and pledge pro- grams begin as the winter sports season grows old, climaxed by the millenial basketball victory over Williams. Junior Prom in the new dining hall with vodka punch under Unit 8 comes and goes as the College Body election centers around reform arguments and the old Senate finally bows out in favor of the new five-man committee. The first warm sunshine brings melting snow and sends some to Florida for Spring vacation, while the baseball and lacrosse teams also travel south. Spring. Seniors worry about graduation, or distinction theses, sophomores worry about their majors, and the freshman riot re-enacts Bay of Pigs. Wesmen lie in the sunshine of Foss Hill or Denison Terrace as the baseball team below triumphs over Amherst. Race riots in Birmingham precede James Baldwin's talk in the chapel, and exam week finally and fatefully arrives. Students depart for summers far away and the class of 1963 graduates. The calendar has gone full cycle . . . A YEAR HAS PASSED AT WESLEYAN

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The Olla Pod reaches for moods and emotions.