Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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COMMENTS BY WENDY TOMLIN PHOTOGRAPHS BY BOB JACKSON

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Reflection. This photo-essay asked a question: A university . Community? However flippant or disconnected the previous remarks may have appeared, there has been an attempt to integrate student university experiences around that question. It is. however very easy on this campus to forget the worlds outside the gates. But the awareness that students gain here may be decisive to their future living experience. Do students for example, learn to treat each other as individuals? To respect the other guy who has a different skin color, or different moral values? Or even longer hair and dif- ferent clothes? Individuals are. however, part of the whole eco system of our world. The girl on'the op- posite page looks a part of that field, doesn t she? But fhe Biblical dictum on which our civilization is based, is that man should go forth and multiply and subdue the earth.' ' Andjman has done just that. He is now dis-, covering that he can no l onger affor.dthatl creed. Fish-dead rivers. smo J.uk n dir. srnokey valleys, ter- extinction of some bio logical species are not jOst'chance happen! ings. They are man-made. phy is needed: one which will ■ 3$y hilosophy is ne f pwledge man as a is here at the uni F ne d can be met. biological species, vfersity that speh a - The university is a leader of society, and jffl it is essential that the students, as members of the larger community, should.jjnder -stand the results of roan's long abuse of air and land anc£water« ATtd also understand that thestilution of ecological problems is the most important priority of our time. Literal . tf it is not. sludenfl should also be aware'that the probable resul t of eco-careSfes.sness is eco-disaster. And evee jndivfduai will have been responsible. w . Oregon State University is in a unique positich on the West Coast to deal with the problem in an integrated fashion, because oftReTwpes of Schools composingthe UiSMj ity. It could and should, bring to evei jy Odent an awareness of his or her ecojrespronsibility. This type of community woultffee worthwhile.

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