Birmingham Southern College - Southern Accent Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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In preceding years the Southern student has always been depicted as a whole person from an academ- ic point of view. He has been freed from the strict limitations of technical knowledge and partially allowed to develop an individuality in his learn- ing-which is, ideally, the true aim of a liberal arts education. Dietrich Bonhoffer, evolution, Bach, and the theory of equations can be discussed with some familiarity by a great majority of the stu- dents. This aspect of the totally educated student remains in the years 1966-67. However, we have been segregated from the past by circumstance and attitude. The typical Southerner of past years could be described as apathetic at best. He was academi- cally astute, but greatly lacking in the depth and sensitivity which is so necessary for development of maturity. The typical student of today is some- thing else. His character is indicative of the transition in which he is involved.

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Perhaps our best indication of this departure from the old can be seen in the changes which ore ap- pearing in our non-academic existence. Previously extracurricular opportunities, manifest in virtually every phase of out of classroom life, retained all of the characteristics of the ' Southern old maid — they simply never were token advantage of. A lack of communication between administration and stu- dent body, combined with the student ' s negative attitude toward any attempt to change his generally skeptical position, gave student life on this campus the vibrancy of a rain-drenched funeral. The aver- age student, unwilling to voluntarily involve himself in any way, resented any forcing of the issue as a prostitution of his morose indolency. The student of ' 66-67 cannot be portrayed as the direct opposite. His reactions to original ideas and efforts either for or against him are immediate. But they are as temporary as they are refreshing, and are seemingly consistent with the mood of the seasons — a pattern somewhat akin to that followed by our predecessors. In the Fall, the student body exhibits a mixed tenden- If 1 Hm ' 10