Agnes Scott College - Silhouette Yearbook (Decatur, GA)

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■y t Convent? A hapless generalization at best, all colleges and universities offer a rather sheltered existence to their students. After all, an academic atmosphere is not the real world, except for a select few. Scott, however, has had charge of that weaker sex for a long time, and has deemed it her responsibility to guide her students as the times have dictated. Of- ten she has been a few steps behind society, but in recent years the school has moved by leaps and bounds into a new concept of womanhood. Increas- ingly, the college has pushed toward leadership by asserting women ' s growing interest in the job mar- ket and by adjusting her academic progra ms appro- priately. If Scott students remain somewhat seclud- ed from the world, it is not so much from limiting rules of social conduct as from an individual ' s free choice. The option is there for virtually any course a student chooses to follow. Those who are unin- volved, off campus or on, are so by choice. And, by and large, that choice seems to be one of uninvolve- ment with politics and public concerns, not to men- tion campus organizations. More and more, the stu- dents are moving toward a sort of voluntary isola- tionism, whether socially or politically. Those stu- dents who opt for a purely academic background cannot be condemned. However, Scott offers more possibilities for involvement, externally and inter- nally, than can be acknowledged by present behav- ior. The walls around Scott still stand, as do a few of the protective rules that are maintained out of common sense and need, but they appear more a mental wall than a physical one. - .