Montana State University Billings - Rimrock Yearbook (Billings, MT)

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Faculty; Students Today's student is more demanding. . .Today's professor must be more providing. The days of house-painting summers for teachers are over. Educators who formerly enjoyed lengthy sunshine sojourns now find this time fiLied as students themselves. Others broaden their intellectual horizons with educational excursions or extensive reading programs. The acquisition of this knowledge soon benefits the students too, as their instructors and professors pass it right on down to the newest freshman. This new breed of professor spearheads a campus curriculum that is graduating some of the nation's top students. Eastern is slowly shedding the title of teachers college as more and more courses are added and more and more professional fields are opened. Already, future doctors, engineers, and other pre-professional people are receiving the basics of their respective professions. This additional zeal, coupled with a growing, realistic curriculum, is both meeting and beating our educational challenge.

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Response Rising to the challenge. Eastern Montana College is assuming its increased responsibility with the advent of a well-balanced curriculum, the completion of modern collegiate facilities, and an abundance of ambitious faculty and students. Although Eastern is known primarily as a teachers college, future engineers, doctors, and other preprofessional people are acquiring the rudiments of their chosen professions as well. Growing right along with the curriculum and the campus is the impressive group of faculty members. More and more top quality professors and instructors are being drawn to Eastern Montana College every year. The most noticeable facet of this new look on campus is the building boom. Montana's most modern Physical Education Building now sits majestically beneath the towering rims of the city. The latest look at EMC is a soaring student skyscraper, Rimrock Hall, which is rapidly becoming the hub of collegiate activity. These things tell only a part of the Eastern story. . . . .The real pulse of this progress is in the expanding student body itself. Enrollment has jumped more than 19% this year over last and the drop-out rate has declined. Teachers now find more students in more classes. . .all seemingly seeking sources of intellectual stimulation to meet this challenge of the future.

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3ive Responses 1 00 Today's Sammy Sophomore and Suzie Senior are both far cries from yesterday's student. Maybe it's the air of determination on the football field. . . or that intellectual atmosphere of the campus. Realizing the ever-increasing importance and necessity of a college education, Eastern students are working with zeal ... pushing on in their pursuit of education. The abundance of scholars working their way through without seeking financial assistance marks tomorrow's graduate with independence and intelligence. The nation's future teachers are preparing to shoulder the burden of instructing and guiding the mass of students crowding into our educational system. These are days of dedication on the campus, with Eastern's future educators and scholars sharpening their intellects and broadening their horizons for the challenges ahead. oars Up, Up! 7