Seattle University - Aegis Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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THE ENERGY THE FAITH, THE devotion which we bring TO THIS ENDEAVOR WILL. LIGHT OUR COUNTRY AND ALL WHO SEWE IT — AND THE GLOW FROft THAT FiRS CAM TRULY LIGHT THE WORLD. —John F. Kennedy

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A WORLD ever fraught with innovation—when no today mirrors its yesterday and no tomorrow will echo its today—the standards once held as inviolable are rapidly being discarded. Youth, with its penchant for icono-clasm, is striking down the golden calves left by past generations. This youth is embarking on the perennial pursuit for a better world. It has begun the frantic search to discover some value which it can embrace. This restless, questioning, idealistic group which seeks so desperately to have a commitment has been called many things—the most appropriate name is “The New Breed.” The driving need to become committed has displayed itself in the Civil Rights Movement, the protest marches, the Peace Corps, and on our own campus, Los Amigos, CAP. SAFE, International Lay Missions, and Operations Crossroads, to mention only a few. The creed first enunciated by Woodrow Wilson in the early years of this century seems peculiarly appropriate to today’s students: We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. Wc seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices wc shall freely make. Wc arc but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. The New Breed is determined not to be content with half-answered questions. For many of the questions perhaps no answer will emerge—and yet, in the honest striving for answers, an expansivencss of mind and spirit will result. This breed of youth is not that described by Keats which grows pale and spectre-thin; “where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leadedeyed despairs.” When faced with an imperfect world, the New Breed is not satisfied to bemoan its fate and sink into the lethargy of despair—it intends to make right that which is wrong and to guarantee that the world, while not perfcctablc. can at least be made less imperfect. . . [The New BreedJ are the product of a revolution of expanding expectations, and in the midst of such transitional situations. friction (and occasionally very serious friction) is inevitable. As much as we are annoyed by the inconsistencies and irrationality that the New Breed often seem to display, we must not overlook what they are trying to tell us; they are trying to say that you cannot have a half-souled aggionamento. that if you open the window you are not going to he able to close it again and that the wind that blows in is likely to bring all sorts of strange things with it. —Rf.v. Andrew Greeley, “The New Breed Fr. Frank B. Costello, S.J., executive vice president of Seattle University, addresses students at the Student Campaign for Responsible Citizenship held fall quarter at the Seattle Center. Backed by state and national leaders, the campaign counteracted the action of some students across the nation who protested the war in Viet Nam. 5