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AN AMERICAN PLACE by Andrew Franklin Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in college than in old-age homes. —Bob Dylan In searching for RIT's place in the landscape of American education it becomes apparent that it is situated, for the moment at least, squarely in the mainstream. The liberal arts institutions which have for so long been the great cutting edge of higher learn- ing are now finding themselves losing students, money, and credibility The shift has been increasingly towards vocational schools with a direct line to a career in the outside world, and RIT's academic premise is essentially just that As such, it is becoming a uniquely American place At first glance, nothing seems particularly wrong with this It may be said with some degree of accuracy that liberal arts universities have over the years lost much of their promise: they have failed to fulfill their self-imposed responsibility of providing people with the tools to live a fuller life Rather, it seems contemporary education is running a race it cannot win. With embarrassing attempts to second-guess the kids to maintain some semblance of rele- vance, it has forsaken its sense of purpose and become a rootless political entity without its tradi- tional foundation. It seems ironic that the major casualty of the upheaval that many schools experi- enced in the sixties was this foundation, sacrificed in the battle whose very mission was to restore it It is very plain that RIT lost that battle as well, but for a completely different reason; it was neverfought here RIT has much to gain in the current state of af- fairs: more students will be applying {including many that would never have thought of doing so a few short years agol. and significantly, more positive reinforce- ment will be generated that the course we are follow- ing is a viable one That is the unfortunate aspect of it, because it is very possible indeed that just the op- posite is the case Let us examine what we have here. This is no simple task: Once one gets beyond being over- whelmed by the bricks and other superficialities, it is nearly time to graduate and leave, To compound the problem, RIT is for all intents and purposes only a few years old: like a child, it is still in many way featureless. Nevertheless, as the years pass, a pattern inexorably emerges, The RIT student body is largely the end-product of the American dream of material wealth, security and conformity. It is, in its own way and in its own context, striving for that same dream itself With the exception of a meager handful of iconoclasts, (now there's a vanishing species for you!), the RIT student has proven himself quite willing to be processed on The assembly-line of vocational training, to become an eminently employable product to be consumed in the marketplace of an economic society. 3
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