Gonzaga University - Spires Yearbook (Spokane, WA)

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Being Active Then there's the time to do something unselfish, practice a little generosity - by visiting with the local indigents for example. Groups of students can get together and visit Spokane's Strip - Main and Trent - and maybe learn some very worthwhile lessons. A person can always visit a bedbound incurable or perhaps bring a little joy into the life of a depressed inmate down at the County Lock-Up. There's just no shortage of things that can be done, where there's a Way to express it. Gonzaga Action Program and The Campus Ministry usually have quite a few things in the fire and can always use a helping hand. Who Comes Hither? What about general life at G.U., the day to day stuff that gives flesh and bones to Gonzaga living. All those hours spent in the lower Cog, at bicycling or basketball. The '71-'72 Freshman Class Profile shows that roughly half came from public schools, 85? were in the top half of there class, their mean G.P.A. was 3.02. of the 538, 310 were boys, 228 girls. Perhaps we could say We're a smarter than average bunch of people, yet I suspect that it's the high G.P. students, especially from private schools, who are most oriented towards G.U. as an academic institution. As time goes by, more and more people refer to the 'people' rather than some course or major, it's all part of learning how to live and what's important. Why Stay? When students arrive here, if the general life wasn't congenial, reinforcing and complete with friendships and shared concern, there'd be little enthusiasm and little interest in sticking around. One of the major educational experiences a zag goes through, at least as a first yearer, is the lived experience of people, people who care. People who are aided and abetted to care by such strange places as the Office for Student Life in its many forms and A.S.G.U. Why do students come here: We'd better leave that 564,000 one to the recruiters and the Admissions Office, but on the other bigeefwhy do students stay here? -must be because they like itl Well, a lot of people put a lot of the 'milk of human kindness' into this place in the hope that it'll be a cool place for those who want to try it for size. Picture the trouble gone to in order to have good R.A. staff on each floor and wing as one indication.