Michigan State University - Red Cedar Log Yearbook (East Lansing, MI)

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The opportunity to meet with administrators and discuss University policies and problems is provided student leaders through monthly Spartan Roundtable dinners. I4 The Student' A .fzlgnzfzdznt Emil

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itat retries' tli.,li0gISTi'UTlOil tltzlts tits? BC Complete Filled out More We Pass Y5 ' X- wr ' gg ' t 'git' ft + Incoming freshmen were introduced to the techniealities of registration during summer counseling clinics. Duung registration a barrage of IBM cards confront the student. 4 wi at 'X , The students bring to the University an element of freshness. Their relative ignorance and im- maturity test the resilience of the University com-- munity, reminding it that every excellent attain- ment must be fought for. With its incessantly increasing enrollment, Michigan State must en- counter a major problem: the student is losing his individuality and becoming merely a number in the larger structure. At every point in his college career on this campus, the student must express his identity in terms of a given numberg personal- ities are disregarded in an infinite sequence of digits. Within the University, a student's life is recorded on impersonal IBM cardsg hopes. dreams, and ambitions are reduced to a series of mechanically-produced punch-cards. The tremen- dous increase in the complexity and rate of ex- pansion has decreed the necessity of this method, 13

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Michigan State is striving to combine the ad- vantages of a compreliensiveness which can be attained only with a large enrollment with the conveniences and identification of smaller groups within the structure of the University. Members of the faculty and administrative bodies Work closely with individual students in the academic and co-curricular areas to achieve and maintain a personal relationship between the student and the goals of the University. An individual interest which interrupts the uniformity of a numbered mass is introduced at all levels of student affairs. , fy, , ,0,', r , A personal greeting from the Hannahs is afforded seniors during Senior Receptions. EAM if tm. Evaluation forms are frequently used to gain student ideas. Wat. 'rm vmawwwm : All-A dinners recognize academic excellence. Administrators speak at the various residence halls encouraging student questions.