Rider University - Shadow Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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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?

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