North Carolina State University - Agromeck Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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It is not intended that students will be ushered into a position of authority which exceeds their limited responsibility for policy making or their limited experience. It is intended that they will be brought more and more into position to express their ideas (which frequently have great merit), their idealism (which is untarnished by the conservatism of practica- bility and habit), their concerns (which often expose the deficiencies of institutional obsolescence and society ' s grossest deficiencies), and their doubts (which sometimes challenge dogmas of encrusted practices and hypocrisy). Student opinion, even when in error, will help to refine the assumptions and review the priorities on which better universities and a better society can be constructed. We intend to keep listening and working with them for their future condition of life. And we intend to merit their support for an orderly resolving of grievances. ChanceUor John T. Caldwell, 1968 13

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Suddenly it occured to me that just as State has a responsibility to me, I have an even greater one to the school— for only a team of the institution and its student body can begin to solve the problems of either. For all their rowdiness, activists around the coun- try have the right idea -educational institutions must incorporate student help to insure the type of direction the graduate of the 70 ' s will need. At State our approach has been dic- tated by the past-by the problem- solving orientation of the student body. Never afraid to work within the system, State students have become members of the pohcy- making team by exploiting their exceptionally fine liaison with the University administration. Students now sit on curriculum committees in almost every school; student input and faculty feedback provide answers to questions which have long plagued both parties. Thus I found some meaning in my university years by realizing that edu- cation isn ' t a one-way street and that it certainly doesn ' t come from entire- ly within the classroom structure. By helping the University find itself and establish its direction-that can be a valid meaning for attending N. C. State. The 1 969 Agromeck is thus dedicated to helping State solidify its identity and reinforce its purpose. The book is comprised of three divi- sions representing the past, present, and future of the school. We have attempted to show how 1968-69 has been a significant year in the develop- ment of the University team of fac- ulty and students and have suggested trends for future growth. The legacy of the past is the form of our lives; to this we bring the content. Inevitably one has problems combin- ing the two; certainly State has. The form-academics-and the con- tent-our present activities -are pre- sented in the first two volumes. The third book presents the actors-the seniors— who must combine the two and a suggestion of how they might succeed. 15