Carthage College - Driftwood / Crimson Rambler Yearbook (Kenosha, WI)

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RELEVANCE 0F CHALLENGE Carthage College is an educational institution where. in addition to study. students have centers and facilities for cultural and extracurricular activities. This statement sums up what this yearbook appears to encompass as the reader brewses through the pictures and words. In fact. Carthage does offer what the statement suggests: however. the activities and organizations represented only reflect the diversity available rather than the actual involvement. At Carthage College studentsare offered a wide range of activities. of which. unfortunately, too few stuv dents partake.

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CARTHAGE by the LAKE

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Many students who come to Carthage hear that by the time they graduate, many of their ideas will have changed. To many a stu- dent this possibility is shocking. because for the past seventeen or eighteen years he has been pushed and prodded to decide on a vocation. and now that he thinks he has something. he does not want to change. The vocation chosen most likely has a col- lege education as a pre-requlsite; and now that the student has chosen it. he wants to go to college in order to fulfill the job demands. Thus he does not see the need to get involved in activi- ties or with other people. To him the education he is receiving is just an extended training of high school. No wonder he can not see any difference between Carthage and high school because all he wants is what a diploma can offer. For many years when the job markets were in dire need qt college graduates. an education which turned out to be a college training could be tolerated. There were jobs for everyone, and the concern over getting the added benefits in college was sec- ondary to the diploma. However. now that jobs are scarce. and now especially that the conventional jobs are filled. the student has to ask himself. What should I expect from the institution. and what should I put into my education?