George Fox University - L'Ami Yearbook (Newberg, OR)

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THE NEW AWARENESS The addition on campus of Hobson Hall and the SUB addition are in themselves sources of encourage- ment and motivation to the college. However, another type of change has been coming into focus on campus this year. It is aside from the physical elements and it cannot be statistically accounted for. It deals with the feelings and attitudes of a growing college. The feeling could be called a new awareness of what is happening to the college. We may not be ex- periencing the tremors that many colleges are today because ours, as a quiet revolution is progressively emerging into the awareness of an interested majority. For the most part, this revolution hasn ' t rejected Christianity, or made unfair demands of the adminis- tration, or even done anything very extraordinary. What has occurred is a cry for deeper and closer cam- pus communications, a sincere regard for real Chris- tian ethics, an attempt at furthuring intellectual stimulation, and a feeling of readiness for change. In most situations negativism isn ' t absent, but this year enough positive attitudes have been set to override any others and give the future tones of promise. 12