Shaw University - Bear Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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Computers, video games! Preppy and New Wave! Terms we have come to associate with the 1980s. We have advanced tremendously over the last 30 years, ad- vanced so much that it raises many questions. Our cities are rapidly becoming concrete mountains towering over us like stolid giants. To perceptive people this may create much anxiety and tension about what is to come. But what is to come? Some may say the end of the world — prematurely. Some say machines may take over. We have already entered the Orwellian world of 1984 and, per- haps, Big Brothers . Society is under the constant threat of totalitarianism, a computerized technocracy and may- be even a sexless and sterile metropolis as George Orwell predicted. All that we created, monuments of a great civilization, can be destroyed by the push of a button and the hands of political fanatics. Is this our future? It need not be if those of us who are planning our future become determined to play a role in its destiny. Or schools are producing brilliant young minds capable of altering des- tiny. In this sense we must grasp the moment of opportu- nity and hold on to the life-force of learning and produc- tivity, strive for excellence and change. At Shaw Univer- sity we must continue to take advantage of what it offers. We must extract and siphon its knowledge with a raven- ous appetite and curious thirst. Shaw University — pro- ducing pathways of excellence for the future! I L ' MI