Kent State University - Chestnut Burr Yearbook (Kent, OH)

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The student mail boxes provide on excellent means for exchanging notes, ideas, and dates. An Eyeful Through the Written Word Expression is achieved through the written word, one of the best known and most acclaimed medias of modern communication. Perhaps the most widely known media of written communication is the newspaper. Through the daily press comes all sorts of written matter designed to inform, interpret and entertain. So it is on campus. The daily newspaper and the very yearbook you hold — these are media of written communication. So are student mailboxes — jammed, often to overflowing with notices of meetings, personal cor- respondence and University information bulletins. Another method of intra-campus communication are the numerous bulletin boards, scattered throughout the halls and manned by virtually every department imagineable. Walk through Kent hall and there can be found news of educational oppor- tunities in sociology, psychology and education itself. All this is possible through the use of the written word. Each University department also offers its share of communicative literature in the form of pam- phlets, leaflets and mimeographed letters. Incoming freshmen are greeted each fall with the written word in a variety of guises — in the K- book, in the catalogue, and in the often-confusing schedule of classes. This is communication through writing. The written message is also carried to the student by posters and notices placed on the bulletin boards. 12

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An art design class releases communication made possible through its outlet of creative drawing. March Through the Magic of Art Self-expression, too, is a means of commun- ication. The artist puts his deepest feelings into a painting which is then re ' ayed through the eyes of the onlooker. So it is with photography — an image trans- formed through the miracle of chemistry into lasting and material object captured in the rapture of a single moment. Again, it is the artist, the photographer, communicating with his audience. The same holds true for sculpture, this re- cording for posterity of a pose. And music, too, is a definite form of communication. Only with music, the communication is achieved through another sense — that of hearing. Mu- sic is an idea of a composer transmitted to the listener. Communication thus is carried on even through the arts. Ideas take shape in many ways and forms. Music — an uncharted vista of worldwide communication.

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Science faces the challenge of communications with its methods of test tubes, microscopes and bunsen burners. Communication Through Experimentation The word communication is basic . . . people use it for everything from the telephone and the radio to the boss ' s last memo. Communication, is of course, as old as man ' s first Ugh! All day, every day, communication is carried on — by word, by glance, and by gesture. There are a good dozen sciences examining communication from every angle under their respecti ve microscopes . . . group dy- namics, study of the human mind and mechanical-elec- trical communication systems. 13