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Show UTONIAN Year ends with existence in doubt Utonian staff members faced a succeed or die alternative in 1969-70. The need to produce a book the quality of the Utonian remained of paramount importance, but the growing need to prove the Utonian's worth to the student body became a frustrating last-ditch attempt to save the book. The preservation of the publication has plagued staffs and editors for the last five years, incorporating into the already overwhelming task of assembling an historical document of approximately four hundred pages an overpowering sense of insecurity about the necessity of a yearbook on the multiversity campus. Surveys were taken in the Spring of 1969 and students sampled seemed to favor the continuation of the Utonian, but sales in 1970 proved the surveys inaccurate. The Utonian went to press in the Spring of '70 with its existence definitely threatened. Into this last effort went innovative layout with radical format changes and the honest attempt to create from pictures and copy a history of the year 1969-70 for university students and the community as a whole. It contained the usual individual pictures, though fewer this year than any other, and for the second year in a row featured separate colleges in essay form highlighting their outstanding offering. Greeks were a major part of the Utonian '70, as they are a major part of university activity, but the unaffiliated student, the minority stunt and the commuter student all found their spot in essays highlighting factions of the University community. A record of activities and events peculiar to 1969-70 attempted to isolate this one year in university history and to present it in its totality. 171 |
