Principia College - Sheaf Yearbook (Elsah, IL)

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'efa-.QNXC mv' ,af if , A THE STUDENT PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT is concerned with student activity outside of the academic area. We are here to support students in any suitable manner as they face college life. We are also concerned with lovingly but firmly challenging student behavior when it is out of step with the community--counseling, disciplin- ing When necessary, and maintaining a continual interaction with quad leadership. It often appears that the student who is signifi- cantly out of step with the community takes up entirely too much of the time of the Student Per- sonnel Department while the 'average' student, who often has special needs that are very impor- tant to him, does not receive sufficient atten- tion. We are attempting to remedy this to some extent by earlier identification of those individu- als who are violating community expectations and by requiring prompter resolutions of their behavior. The majority of our effort should be directed in supporting the vast majority of the student body--those who are in concord with community expectations. Many people have commented that 1972-73 has seemed to be a more harmonious year at Prin than several previous years. Contributing to this, l think, is the recognition by many that confrontation may produce short-term gains but cooperation has better long-term effect, and the recognition that significant gains have been made in student oriented issues through cooper- ative, reasoned discussion - thus, reducing the lure of confrontation methods. Also contributo- ry, I think, is the realization by increasing numbers of students that wide-spread tolerance of actions in obvious violations of the expecta- tions of Principia undermines our collective effectiveness.

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One of the aims of Principia College is to provide our students with the opportunity for direct contact with cultures other than those which our student body normally represents. The purpose of the OFFICE OF INTERCULTURAL STUDIES is to set up programs so designed as to bring the student into first-hand contact with such a culture and to lead him, through personal experience, to a comparative study of the two cultures. GEOLOGY, as one of the Natural Sciences, has al- ways been one of the liberal arts Cliberating artsj. It was early called natural history which has since been subdivided into a number of disciplines. The naniral sciences are at the core of the traditional liberal arts. How much more relevant can you get? An ability to analyze the text of the play is basic to the interpretation of dramatic literature whether that interpretation be in production or in criticism. Con- sequently, the core of the major in DRAMA is the study of dramatic literature. 23