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ir BECAUSE THEY WANT TO 'There is no reality except in action. If this statement by John-Paul Sartre is correct, one would be hard-pressed at times to prove that the Furman community exists at all. A community in action means individuals in action — but where does one find them to put together a cohesive picture of the whole? One could look in the usual places — the auditorium, theater, student center, student government offices, dorms. But he'd have to look hard to find much happening. As one bewildered transfer student put it, “Where does everybody go after classes? Within the Furman community, it appears that each individual goes where he wishes and nowhere else. The frenzied activity of former years, participation for the sake of participation, has no meaning for the present-day student. A prime example is student government. The highly-charged atmosphere of former campaigns and the prestige of vic-toiy have vanished; this year only one candidate even bothered to run for each of two student body offices. The drastic overhaul of the entire constitutional structure could do nothing to counteract a pervasive lack of interest in office-holding. But what has evolved is an emphasis on student services; those candidates who do run for office do so because they have concrete plans in mind. The trend today is on activity for the sake of personal response and meaning, and nowhere is this trend more evident than at the most active place on campus, the student center. Planned activities often suffer for lack of support, but students are constantly exchanging ideas in groups of two or three. The Information Desk, home base for CESC, can claim most of the observable action. But even though the Service Corps has expanded to corporation magnitude through a crusade-like recruitment program, its works of healing in the Greenville community still take place on a person-to-person level. One finds sporadic bursts of other activity wherever students become interested Plays and concerts elicit respectable support, and an occasional speaker provokes excited response. tivities
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Minority groups establish their own activity patterns, touching the pattern of the whole through individuals. Eager foreign-study groups set out culture-bound, only to return culture-shocked and uncertain about just where to look for the previous identity they had established at Furman. Activity at Furman is hardly noticeable on the surface. In a day when traditions of all types have been rejected and a gradual change in the academic environment parallels the emergence of a more serious student, individuals simply won't take the time for activities for their own sake. The result is a community — if one may call it that — where action is on a person-to-person level. And in this sense the Furman community is very real. —Carol Andrews Activities 19
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