Youngstown University - Neon Yearbook (Youngstown, OH)

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THE GROWTH - As Y.U. expands to accommodate the increased enrollment, the subtle development of the individual is still the most important change that occurs.

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During the past semester Youngstown University has changed. 1965 was a Cinderella year during which the dream of expansion became a reality. The demolition of the residential area encompassing the campus and the massive construction program now in progress are the result of years of planning to meet the needs of an expanding student body. This period of construction with all its mud, smoke, noise and blocked-off streets has been somewhat frustrating to the student at Y.U., but this frenzied time throbs with the intoxicating excitement of a prelude-a foreword to the future. In 1950, Youngstown College for- mally changed its name to' Youngstown University, however, it was not until this year that the campus began to live up to its name. In one hectic semester, the campus has expanded to include Kilcawley dormitory and student office building, the new cafeteria, Elm Street School and the Dana Concert Hall. Moreover moonlike craters'forecast the birth of science and engineering buildings. The renovations on the campus are readily visible, but, more subtle, are the important changes in the character of the University as an educational institution. As the facilities have been expanded to meet the requirements of the growing student body, the quality- of the edu- cation has improved. The completion of the first university owned dor- mitory and the subsequent increase in the percentage of resident stu- dents have provided a central core of students to serve as leaders in the creation of a more significant campus life. Nevertheless, Youngstown University is not something one can understand by looking at its buildings, because the school acquires its personality from its students. Its location or dimensions are not signifi- cant. Y.U. is traditionally a locus to which the individual gravitates in search of the unknown. To each student, his four years at Y.U. are many things which together equal a chance-a chance to better him- self, an interlude in which to shape a life. We the staff of the 1966 Neon have been confronted with a double task--that of capturing, perhaps for the last time, what the University was and of welcoming what is to be. The 1966 Neon is a chronicle of growth through change because change is the design of a University.