Illinois Institute of Technology - Integral / Lewis Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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The administrators belong to the outside, majority-rule world, this makes communication between them and the stu- dents a little difficult. VVe don't understand them and we say they don't understand us, but perhaps they do-a little too well. In any case we wondered why the Student Union is being built by an architect other than Mies, we wondered why the cafeteria prices are so high, and why we can't have political organizations and why we can't have beer on cani- pus. Sometimes we got answers and were satisfied, more often we got answers and were not satisfied, sometimes we did not receive answers. The important people like the Board of Trustees and the President, are those we never see. Those we do see most often are the secretaries at their coffee breaks in the SU.

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ADMINISTRATIQN 25

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PRESIDEN T 'S MESSAGE 3 Four years-a comparatively brief period in the lifetime of the average man or woman, That is all the time a person normally spends in attaining his college degree. And yet col- lege is generally acknowledged to have more influence on an individual's life than any other factor with the exception of his home environ- ment. During this short four-year period, a stu- dent must adequately prepare himself in the fundamentals for a career in his chosen pro- fession. He also must learn that he will be ex- pected to be a useful member of society and to give of himself in some phase of the admin- istration of our complex governmental system, for today no man can truly remain apart from his obligations to his country and his fellow man. In this period. too. he deepens his apprecia- tion of the so-called finer things of life. Most importantly. he strengthens greatly his powers of independent judganent-the ability to de- termine for himself the issues of any questions and to make proper decisions. Because so much is expected from a college graduate. we at Illinois Tech have set rela- tively high standards. These criteria are the best assurance that an IIT altunnus will attain gt measure of success in his profession and in society in general. Illinois Tech is proud of its graduates-old and news. It has every right to believe that its .zltunni appreciate the educa- tion ther obtained at IIT. lt is my hone tha: this issue of Z':ttgn1l will be .t means ot' heeding N011 closer to the Insti- tute in filvfl? Nesis and .iiord you many l10111S Oil DI s X0 iaith: f: will hiring bfidl tnentoties of :le gotxi time-s and perhaps th? hard tizites zoo. lor stile-3 is 110: olay. espfi- teiszzs ewes- se tiii: sis if-ss? like edizozs .anti s .aff 'rifgizf should be fXC0g1ifJ:Xf :br :heir di is .unoulll Of tlisswvork wvozzld sin 3 :i 1- if exzweience thCS' gpaizttxi izt zxvixzrfits .211 zizilishiizg 1 u13j01' Txlilfltllilb sit ss 'six he Tiixtizte a 20011 Niilifxvs is :ass .ani 121355 TSSD0U5l' SNS lot- 51: s viii' iixg :C E Coliglt- Lzitxi. lit f Nil? q:t:ti::.:1qx I exzezti :zur sinterd' visit :or 1 Levin .tri :xiii life- I have we will ,zlxtgxs xlfffln jfs 1, we .another . 'YY-NNN xfw 5 N Q--ss sslxs- -xx s ,Xl .TMI N 8 N . -5 s The Fat bets thoset nentnentln to sene tht Ol prime has been th cemed nilh lllinois Ted fonnhree it nhtt should The eonnt lecled Proless llfnnlng DW X-.,.