Brigham Young University - Banyan Yearbook (Provo, UT)

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We at BYU are not intellectual idiots. Yes. we know as much about life :IS described in the textbooks us :my other mllcgc students. But. our knowledge doesnft stop there. Nor. does it end with the temporal experiences that are also considered cdumtiun. Instead. our knowl- Ctlgc finds it's fullness with the testimony of truth that we tics! in our souls after combining Classroom. cx- pcricnccs and God :1 together. So. you see wchrc doing it. President McKay. Wctrc in it. but wchrc not of it.

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But, where does the psychologist turn for information when a patient looks across the desk at him after months of therapy, considered to be llwellf and says, llYes, I feel better now, but I still have no direction in my life. I am happy that I was born, but I still cannot understand why I was born? What textbook answers that question? What noted professor has written a research paper on that subject that could be looked up in the library? What course do you sign up for that teaches a psychology major about those kinds of things. Where in her past college notebooks does the young mother turn to find out what she should reply when her 3-year-old comes running to her demanding to know where God lives? What homemaking class teaches that? Education of the whole man does not mean education of the intellectual and physical man. It means education of the intellectual, physical and spiritual man. God is the father of all truth. Is there, then, any subject which can be explored fully that ignores divinity in all things?

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ON-CAMPUS EMPLOYMENT Shoveling snow, waxing floors, working a cash register in the Bookstore, replacing books on shelves in the lib- rary. . . almost half of BYUis students work during the year to earn enough money to attend school. The hours they spend each week form a signiflcant part of their school lives. The kinds of jobs range from the common ones on- campus to jobs as secretaries or key-punch operators in town, from writing sports stories for the Provo Herald to tending tigers and finding fleas. Tending tigers and finding fleas? Last October students got jobs taking care of the tigers and other animals at Homecoming. The flea finders worked for a professor who was doing research on campus. More common were those jobs where students found themselves yawning over brooms but working hard on the 4-7 a.m. shift. Only the early-morning workers can appreciate the story of the fellow who picked up his alarm clock like a phone and said ttHelloiw when it rang at three one morning. Around 12,000 students were employed this year in these and other jobs. Over 8,000 of these found on-campus jobs. Most applied with hopes of working in the library or the bookstore, but many ended up working for the Physical Plant or Food Services. Only 20 per cent of those who applied didnit get some kind of a job, though. The wages may not have been the greatest but they usually sufficed to get deserving students through school. .. W; mm. s ntfllmfiff km . y