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

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0 ' JK:, iT .-f%- T- Ultimately what difference can my violent denunciation of the war in Vietnam make? So what if I believe in some high-minded principle like the dignity of Man? Does it matter how I feel? What ' s going on? Am I supposed to find some answers? Are my questions relevant? And so goes the circular reasoning of despair. My mind wandered in class-when I attended. I was bad company; my roommate despised me. So I often sought solitude, partly to think, most- ly to get away from others.

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1- fe VCff 7726 college is so bound up with the best of life of the state that we must grow with its growth and strengthen with its strength. The new knowledge taught at [N. C. State] . . .the nature and extent of work it is now doing for the state. . .is so important and practical and contributes so directly to the relief of man ' s estate. that the people of North Carolina are bound to hold in appreciation and honor the agencies by which it has been brought home to them. Every student and alumnus of this institution can rest assured tliat a great future, commensurate with the greatness of the state, awaits their Alma Mater. She commands the elements that command success. Agromeck, Vol. 1.(1903)

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Ill the first place there is evidence from across the Nation that some types of campuses experience more overt student discontent than others. Greatest inci- dence accords with the campus having a highly selective student body who are studying predomin- antly in the humanities and social sciences and who are upper middle class in income and background. (That generalization obviously applies to the pre- dominantly white institutions.) The lowest incidence of discontent and protest occurs on the small, work-oriented, relatively open-admissions campuses. No two campuses have an identical profile. NCSU is predominantly career-oriented scientific and techno- logical. 1967-68 enrollment in liberal arts courses, it is true, accounted for 36. 7 per cent of total credit hours taught at the University. But despite this fact the flavor of the campus is heavily career-oriented, admissions selectivity is modestly high, student economic background ranges from low to upper middle class affluency, and indeed solid middle class would be a fair description. Tliese are probably the basic reasons NCSU has thus far escaped notable student militancy. ChanceUor John T. Caldwell, 1968