Loyola University - Wolf Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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A Time To Learn Each one of you — that is, each one of you that is worth his salt — is struggling with certain questions. You are asking yourselves and perhaps your friends: What is life? What is success? What is happiness? What is good ? And in the dark of the night you are asking yourself: What am I ? What do I want? Where am I going? Those questions you must ask, somehow, sometime; and the answers you find for them will determine largely what you will become and what you will find. Primarily, you have come to college to learn the answers to these questions, and your life depends on the answers. Each one of you will have to reach his own conclusions, since no one can reach them for you. Two thousand years ago, Pilate asked: What is truth? Millions have repeated the question, thousands have striven to answer it — and it remains the enigma of the world. You, too, must strive to answer it. You probably will never succeed, but in striving you will attain something like education; you will learn something like wisdom. Out of the confusion, the contraditions, the eternal mysteris, you will evolve a philosophy of life — and to evolve that philosophy is your primary purpose in coming to college. Percy Marks ' Advice to Freshmen

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CAUkPAIGM 78 FRESHMAN ELECTIONS NOV. I5H6 I0.T.4,. 6,.T.8i YOUR VOTE COUNTS ! WELCONE NE ' K STCDEH ' Good Times, Bad Times: The Freshman Experience Freshman year. Surviving those unavoidable first-year crises makes it quite a challenge, and the first few weeks are usually the roughest. However, the typical trials, traumas, and challenges fac- ing most freshmen are somewhat lessened at Loyola. According to the majority of those interviewed, the re- laxed atmosphere and friendly people made the transi- tion from high school to college much easier. Loyola, being a small college, has a lot of advantages. The pres- sures are a lot less because it ' s much easier to make personal contacts with teachers and students than it would be in a larger university, says Caria Gauthier, a Communications major. Freshman year is perhaps the most intense period of personal growth. You ' re in a totally new, unrestricted environment. Classes are different and much more chal- lenging than in high school. You are your own boss and it ' s totally up to you whether you cut a class, cram the night before a test, or not study at all. No one is checking up on your behavior. You have more freedom as well as more responsibility, which gives you a greater sense of maturity, says Karen Lang. Adds Mary Brennan, You have to take a lot more initiative because there ' s no one hanging over you, telling you what to do. Finally, freshmen share a common bond. Most are exper- iencing similar feelings of fear and uncertainty. Surpris- ingly enough, most college students will look back on their freshman year with pleasure and a certain sense of triumph. 20