Douglass College - Quair Yearbook (New Brunswick, NJ)

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A dedication is usually made to one person, but 1969 is the year for a dedication to all. In a dedication made to one, emphasis is placed upon that one person's ideals, character, and sewice to the school community, and this is good, however, underlying these traits are the ideas that he personified and taught. In reality, those ideas prove to be the substance remembered and the whole point of the dedication. 1969 brings us to the ever stronger realization that ideas are the kinetic energies that can move the mountains of institutionalized and bureaucratic educa- tion and govemment, and effect changes. Involvement is the idea with which youth most intensely identifies today, and it is in the spirit of this realization that we dedicate the quair 1969 to the Idea of Involvement. What does Involvement mean? To be involved is to be implicated, to be entangled, to be in and a part of something. It has infinitely many forms and shapes for a person to assume, it leads the individual into social, political, and economic areas as well as into realms of personal awareness and sensitivity. Involvement is not merely the study of life. It is knowing life. One is involved in thinking, in seeing, in acting, in teaching, in the Peace Corps or Vista, in joining a crusade for federal aid to rid ghettos of rats, in composing a score for a symphony, in revamping our curriculum, in writing the Great American Novel, in listening to another person's needs, in understanding. Always involvement im- plies a full relationship in and with all parts of life. The time for becoming a part of your environs, for entangling yourself in the actions of mice and men is now simply because there is so little time in which to do something meaningful. Our life span is but a second in eternity. This urgency for Involvement is loudest heard from students today because apathy has too long sanctioned the status quo. Students are constantly made aware of credibility gaps, of wrongs so long overlooked, of the need for changes both in their world for four years, the University, and in their world for a lifetime, Society. In a cyclical fashion, awareness increases involvement and involvement increases awareness. These ideas we have gleaned not from one but from many who have directly and indirectly affected our mental and physical development. It is thus that in dedicating this book to the Idea of Involvement we dedicate this book to all.

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