Northwest Missouri State University - Tower Yearbook (Maryville, MO)

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The NWMSU art department is usiiifj a quick and easy water base silk-screen stencil, but the I.A. department is still usins the time-consuming solvent based stencils. Discover the resources NWMSU has to offer. The library is small, but can any .student say that he has ex- hausted its resources? Phe Instruct iimal ' Pelevisicm Department is more than happy to help someone with a video project, using their time and knowledge to help bring about his ideas. Discover the resources of each department. Too much valuable equipment sits on shelves gathering dust. (let to know your instructors and see that they know you. Most teachers have plenty of untapped informaticm that doesn ' t get classroom exposure. Try President Foster ' s open-door policy. It really does exist. If you have a problem and d(m ' t know where to go for an.swers, go to him. If he can ' t help you, he ' ll know who can. Learn to learn. You need the attitude of wanting to learn. If you sit down and really look at your notes, you ' ll see that those complicated formulas aren ' t all that com- plicated. Learn to internalize the information, not merely memorize it. If you totally understand the hows and whys and wheres, there will be no need to memorize. It will just be there when you need it. This idea of imderslanding the concepts is quite impor- tant in advanced classes, where concepts are the main sub- ject. Concepts are hard to memorize! Whatever you are majoring in, dtm ' l waste the four years it takes to get a degree. Chances are that if you make it through four years you ' ll get the degree. But, a degree is nothing more than a piece of paper. It ' s up to you to determine the importance of that piece of paper, because its real value will depend on the educa- tion it stands for. D 1)1

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Kdiication is the act of adding to one ' s mental resources. It is staying open to new ideas. It is integrating concepts. It is Tneinorizing when necessary. It is learning to relate infor- mation and concepts. Kducation is involvement in all men- tal activities, ' i ' he degree to which one becomes educated is determined l)y his ability to control these mental processes. Kducation is not being sucked in by the school and spewn out with a diploma signifying that you ' ve been programmed to function as required by society. ' { ' he university is here to jjrovide an education, or program, both of which it can do, depending on whether or not the student takes advantage of his position. Education should be a continuous process. A student, anybody for that matter, should be constantly receptive to the learning ex- perience, which can be listening attentively to a classroom lecture, or watching a honey bee and trying to discover his flight i)attern. If one does not actively attempt to learn, why soend the money and time school requires? If you can ' t take education for the sake of education, there are other reasons for it. If you ' re a capitalist — annual incomes grow in propor- tion to the amount of education a person has. If you ' re a humanist— the more education a person has, especially in the area of humanities, the more tolerant he becomes to differing viewpoints. If you ' re a hedonist, which we all are to some ex- tent —the more you know, the more you ' ll enjoy. Whatever you ' re after, education will help you get it. A few suggestions to consider: Take courses in related fields. An art major should take graphic arts in the I. A. deinirtment, and I. A. majors should take a design course in the art department. Broadcasting majors should take a music api)reciation course. Each department covers a similar subject in a different j ersjiec- tive. You are likely to get new ideas because of the different emphasis or different methods and materials. Kor exam])le:

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