Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

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Self-reliance. Think of it and what comes to mind? Paint-thirsty barns that still stand despite broken boards, or weather-mangled cottonwoods. All seemingly indestructible structures the unshakably sturdy. Humanize it and what appears? Old people with their lives etched in creased faces and callused hands. Or the scarred. Outliving it all, overcoming life. Self-reliance, or literally relying on the self. Can a student know self-reliance while exist- ing under the protection of a glass university? introduction 7

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Self-reliance and the student. Relying on the self, not looking to others for direction or example. Nonconforming. Students are familiar with nonconforming. They ' ve grown up with the subject having be your own true person pounded into their minds by the media. In university surroundings, a student is ide- ally offered all alternatives. Involvement or apathy. Socialization or isolation. Piety or atheism. Sophistication orcrassness. But, in seeking what is right for one ' s self, can a student march into the conformity of not conforming? Did the same media screaming be one ' s own true self also illustrate the college stu- dent ? Have all available categories been pre- selected? Collegiate stereotypes do exist. 8 introduction