Rider University - Shadow Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

Page 160 text:

i Outside The Fied Brick Gates The walls are now closing in and squeezing their inhabitants out. After four years of enveloped liv- ing with near automatic provisions for food, shel- ter, and clothing, from within the self-sustained walls of Rider College we must now depart into the great unexperlenced. Excepting an occasional march or Gino Giant there has been no necessity 0 for venturing from here to there. Old Mother Flider has courageously and untiringly fought off the good, the bad and the ugly, in order to provide an environment capable of aclimatizing her young. In moving from the unknown, human nature pro- vides us with a cold and hollow voice that shouts out, But you're not ready. But you don't know. lt's T, X f X ,, V . U i U 1 f O' - 'A f' tlxzhk :W H it ex fbfl SQA' ' ,L -fa' -- ,, -fl' W 7 , F 'f,, 1' 7, ' 1? 'A .- ' 1 ., - ' ' V' 4 p51,,,,.-- ' .QW ' V 5 P. K 1 fir ' 'L -'Q ' u ' ,f I. V f -l O . i t ' 'ff y 'W' , 1 .4 I YW Will? L .af i J' If 7 I at W W i f 'Vw Ci as 51x E-5 1: 1 'V I E' 'Z v 4 ' fr.. I V h , xxx ' - 4 ' 'Rig' . A wg, , 2 .J V A i my jg I - .M X X lg S V I ' V 1 5 A O my A 1- , fa , f . l I fkff K: I f - Qt ' ,. M gl i 'Q Q, . i x i 2 X L all a game. What's the difference, pollution or the bomb' will get us in the end. lt's awfully ugly out there. The politicians ruined it. Feel guilty, people are starving and you are not. But you are going to die anyway. Courage people, it's a big and beautiful world, and it's there to be seen and experienced. Fear not ugliness for the imperfections are what make our stay worthwhileg Utopia is a stifling bore which only signals that it is time to move on.

Page 159 text:

lege can, as it were, flee from the reality of the reli- gious wars which lie beneath the surface of modern life andfor disregard them as irrelevant to their own search for truth. But the faith which the student professes must be em- bodied in significant human service, because love of God entails love of neighbor and vice versa. This love takes on a transcendent quality when united with the complete act of love-the love of God for man. Hence, the importance of liturgy. In liturgy alone is this Iife-giv- ing love celebrated adequately and completely, and only here is this love proclaimed totally as an existential reality of the here and now. Religious counseling too is vital to the educational process. It aims to bring together emotion and intellect, to deepen and enlarge the perspective from which problems are viewed. Hundreds of human problems arise which deal either directly with faith or which have as their underlying concern a conflict on basic issues. First, there is the conflict aroused with old forms of reli- gious faith by newly acquired knowledge. Second, the situation caused by negative influences: death in the family, the breaking off of an engagement, etc. Third, the problems of vocation, both in the economic sense and in the moral sense. Fourth, there are the many moral problems which plainly relate to religion. And fi- nally, there are the basic questions of meaning and of meaninglessness. Both the religious community and the college commu- nity must, it would appear, seek a union between the sacred and the secular. The result of segregation for the religous community is irrelevanceg for the college community, value-neutrality or some form of idolatrous faith.

Page 161 text:

X A rather vigorous and fruitless attempt to be- come a part of what lies beyond is expressed by the famed Rider College tree. Its failure to effect the multi-dimensional aspects of existence is due to a deeply rooted security found within the known. The plight of the child who is aware of th e grandeur of existence is an inability to become a part of that existence. While restricted by a dependency which is nourished by ignorance th . . . e individual can only observe. Life can be lived only when character and knowledge allow one to become involved. XS