Rider University - Shadow Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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Cambodia-or-Bust peace fanatics who packed the gym that day to demand an end to hostilities? Immediately after the strike gained the support of the faculty and student body organizations, and when it was clear that final examinations would be largely abandoned, the campus lapsed back into the usual lackadaisical attit tude. The result was the affirmation of a tremendous dearth of sincerity on the part of the peace marchers of Rider College, even in the area wherein they claimed the greatest fortitudeg the cycle had been completed. Fietrospectively, there was really nothing unusual about this. A human being's basic nature dictates that he should hold his own interests in the highest of prior- ities. Despite the claims of our most liberal friends that the interests of the mass of people should be first on our minds, the occurrences of the last four years on this campus-with the famous moratorium as the most obvious example ibut let's not forget all the farcical class electionsi-indicate that no amount of ideology can change most people's reluctance to sacrifice time X N pl! X K - t 7 Q , i n IQ? I !Ll :li I ZEN I ' 5 t N xxx Nr, ': : :may W i i li l fp 9 A - ix I-::. if ik! I ' ll N iq .X N fl M :ag A Q I A N T V 'fl w ill W!-JK ff X Mit f Ni f ' V! 'f fa M X l 5' ft - K ff r X Xl 4437 XR ox .- ,vpn , . ,l f I WUWWW , f,4llllrQrv'l'lll,rielf1. M X 1 'Witl2fU-f55W1't fl l, f 2i5jd7w?gf7w'55 ffa-Wfff i ,. ff' X M l 111, ff Z 107

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age. and effort, even for a cause to which they theoretically subscribe. ldeallstic denials can be praiseworthy in an individual context, but those who expound them habit- ually refuse to acknowledge publicly the existence of their own interests. Even though the activities of so many students around the country today tend toward issues exclusive of their own campuses, the majority of these young adults, of whom Rider students are representative, have exhibited a singular lack of political tolerance-one of the most serious offenses of which they accuse their el- ders. College is an experience which should allow the individual to mature at his own rate. When many of us came to college, we grew up a little for the first time and realized with surprise that our country's leaders aren't always right. By the time we graduate, we should have grown up a little more and recognized that they aren't always wrong, either. lt seems that a substantial number of students here suffer from delusions of omniscience-the hey-look-at- me-l'm-in-COLLEGE syndrome. Education consists of substantially more than passing courses required for a person's chosen field of endeavor, and any student who allows his college experience to stop when that juncture is reached is cheating himself out of the most important part of any higher education-the opportunity to learn that his are not the only opinions that matter, that his judgment is not infallible. These contemporaries of ours may earn masters and doctorates, but the mark of a truly educated man resides in the recognition of the lim- itlessness of his own ignorance. af?