Rider University - Shadow Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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ticipate in the making of College policy. After all, we are paying for our education here, we should know where the money is going and what we're getting. Finnegan blames the administration for many of the campus problems. Administrations are the usual scape- goats, however, in student gripes. But Finnegan sees Dr. Elliott CFrank N., president of the collegej in particular as the cause for some of the problems. Some of the decisions last year during the strike could have caused some violence. The difference among the students exists only in the minds of some people, Finnegan said. lf they would look at students as a group, then maybe they would see the common ground. You must see the source and then deal with the problem and you can't see the source unless you look at the total community. What some of the adminis- trators are doing here is turning student against stu- dent. They say 'Look at the long-haired radicals, the leftists, the blacks on the Student Senate.' People then look and they begin to think that if these people notice this, then maybe there is trouble brewing, Dr. Elliott, I don't think, is too keen on student power or students getting too involved in academics, finances or policy-making at the college, he added. Atkinson, while sharing many of Finnegan's views is more of the push type who wants to see things moving. One of the prime goals of Atkinson's administration is to try to get rid of the student apathy that he sees on the campus. This year it's really bad. We have to get out and get them moving and open the channels of communication so that they don't feel they're being left out. This is the year that could make or break student government on the campus. lf we don't get better stu- dent activism, then we may find ourselves without a real i ll, I N l Vi.

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student government and we'Il end up as we were be- fore, with no part in the important phases of the Col- lege, he said. Also, I want to see the Student Senate, especially under the new system, get moving. The senators take the jobs and then they don't bother to work. According to Atkinson, too many of the senators have a gripe and want to set up a committee and then when the committee is set up, they don't want to work on it. We have to get them moving somehow. They want the job but then they don't want to work. If they take the job, they better start being prepared to either work or give up the job, he said. Both may be somewhat idealistic. People's minds can be changed but it takes a long time and in a college where you only have a particular group here for four years, that may not be enough time. But if you can get a program in where you start with the freshmen and mold them so that by the time they're juniors and seniors they have an idea as to what they're doing and where 'it's at,' then maybe things can start happening. You don't do everything all at once. But with careful planning, things can start moving and then watch out! si 93