Loyola University Maryland - Evergreen / Green and Gray Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Mr. Steve McNierney — teacher, writer, philosopher, hus- band and father, department head, and ... of course, friend, in our introduction to this big man, we are greeted by a dis- arming smile, elfish eyes hidden behind slightly dirty glasses, and an uncanny sense of humour. He quickly becomes our ideal teacher . . . intelligent, amusing, and friendly. His casual yet serious class is a dialogue of valuable exchange, in which aesthetic abstractions are alway tempered by rele- vance. He plays softball in a manner Charlie Brown couldn’t match. He heads a philosophy department to which the cam- pus points with pride. His prominent theme in life is involve- ment — whether it be his family, his studies, his students, or his world. He serves as a proper response to the cry of apathy and the proper example of the students he influences. We grew to love this contemporary man — so involved in our world, so immersed in our times, so responsive to its chal- lenges, so intense a participant that he seems the very symbol of the vitality and exuberance that is the essence of life it- self. His first area of involvement is always at home — a beautiful wife and four monsters (his words). In like manner he opens himself with concern and sincerity to students and their hangups — Plato, politics, and the problems of sex. He never speaks to us, but rather with us. He shows us what it means to be a man, and he shows us that a man can cry. Fi- nally, he involves himself in his study of philosophy. He dedi- cated two years in France to study with Gabriel Marcel and he now spends countless hours in his office in Xavier Hall after the students have gone home. He is a good philosopher. He is a great teacher. But most important, he is our friend. We, the class of 1968, thus proudly DEDICATE the EVER- GREEN to the man who inspired us, taught us, and who will forever be a friend to us . . . Mr. Stephen McNierney. . . . AND A FRIEND INVOLVED IN OUR TIMES

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CAMPUS IN TRANSITION . . . In the past year, the Loyola College campus has experi- enced much in the way of change — change in curriculum, changes in policy, changes in administration and faculty, changes in the variety of its students — but more than any- thing, a change in attitude. This change in attitude has given rise to greater student participation and involvement not only in school, but in the community and world. It springs from a firm belief that no problem of human destiny is beyond the reach of human beings. It is this same spirit of change that we herald and attempt to capture in the 1968 EVERGREEN. We mark here the beginning; the beginning of a transition which promises to radically alter the character of this campus. The challenge of education has been leveled, and the student, in coming to Loyola, has undertaken that challenge. As an educated man, he has the responsibility to be an individual, and the power to change the world. What’s the point if he leaves everything exactly the way he finds It — then he’s just adding to the noise, or taking up room on the subway. The quest for change is an unguided one; it leads into blind alleys and unanticipated hazards. But, if undertaken with sincerity and perseverance, it will eventually lead to the road of progress. If the student is complacent, apathetic, and uninvolved, he will permit himself to become the fellow with glasses in the back of the class, or the name on six. doubled-spaced, typewritten pages, and then, he is pitiable and his education has become a travesty.

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EDITORS: Marc Oken John Lombardo STAFF WRITER: Gerry Smith