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h) ]n n Y K ()l I IK ON a sunny day in September K int lulu jTospcxtivc Dmk Stover and Frank Mcrri- wells 1)1 ' the Class of IV6I wandered through Phelps Gateway onto a preen and peaceful Old Campus. It did not take lonp for some to dis- cover that the pur| oscs of the considerate and courte« us upperclassmen who sat behind their tables or roamed through the dormitories were not altogether altruistic. The ori ;inal naivrtc faded cfuickly in the whirl of mcxiinp the chal- k-npcs. academic and stxial. of that first week. Soon the upperclassmen were drifting back, care- frcx- and rested after a summer away from the pressures of academic life. We returned to hnd that Oak Strc-et had piven way to the Connector ( it tcx)k some time to find out just w hat it did connect) and a number of construction projects. In the colleges we found sh ny new beds, a foot longer and with real maftrc-sses. A further sur- prise awaited us at the dining halls, where we found that the milk supply was now unlimited, though the glasses had somehow shrunk in size and we were not allowed to take more than one of tiitin at a lime. Letters from the college mas- ters over the summer had Ic-ssened the slunk of the new rule demanding that coals and ties be wurn to all meals, but not all were reconcilc-il to It. Howt-ver. after a few weeks most agrtxd that they didn ' t really mmd this new step toward civilization. The beginning of classes sewn ob scured these matters, as we settlc-d down to tin rcs|X)nsibilities of the year ahead. There were several noticeable changes on ilu academic scene. Visiting Cambridge professiir Dc-nnis Brogan reinvigorated the Political Science Department, suffering from the loss of several ke)- members wlu) left Yale for other positions. Maynard Mack, returning to his ShakcN|xare Ic-c- ture ctjurse. attracted several hundred students, engineering as well as Fnglish majors. The early days of classc s bridged the gap between summer frc-edom and the pressure of the first hour tests and packers. Gradually we were drawn once more into academic concerns, but not so exclusively that we lost touch with the pace of events in the outside world. The Little Rfxk crisis drew

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YEAR IN REVIEW ]

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much comment, and Goxcrnor I- ' .iuhu,s turned up in the classroom as well as the Neivs editorial columns. Princeton ' s dismissal of Father Halton was anotiier event which attracted student atten- tion. On the last Saturday in September Yale beat UConn, 27-0, and many were convinced that this year ' s team had championship potential. October opened on a somber note. A new Connecticut liquor law, effective on the first day of the month, required that all persons over 21 had to obtain a personal identification card from the New Haven town clerk before they would be allowed to purchase licjuor. This legislative action foreshadowed later police crackdowns t)ver big football weekends which resulted in the arrest of a total of nine Yale students. Elsewhere on the New Haven scene, the Taft Hotel fought to keep out a new multi-million dollar hotel scheduled to be built in the immediate future. Local news was superseded by the revelation that on October 4, Soviet Russia had launched tl:e first man-made earth satellite. Science fiction sales rose and future space travel became the topic of most bull-sessions. ' While Yale shared the con- cern of the nation with the necessity of furthering science and the education of scientists in this country. President Griswold and Dean DeVane came out with strong statements warning against neglecting the liberal arts in the upsurge of scientific interest. This continued to be Yale ' s official position and that of the majority of under- The killlc jgiUiiil the Aiutii fhi. graduates as the discussion increased in intensity. The relationship of homo yalensis to woman- kind was the subject of much attention in Oc- tober. The Alumni Board, reviewing the film documenting Sterling Library, withheld it be- cause of too much boy and girl. The Council of College Masters showed a rather more liberal attitude toward se.x in extending the deadlme for women guests to midnight on Saturday eve- ning. On the same day that this decision was revealed officials of Smith College declared a quarantine because of Asian flu. Several sopho- Thc y.ilc A,-}m.il pr.nuhd u,„i.