Southern Illinois University - Obelisk Yearbook (Carbondale, IL)

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Southern Grows and Learns ln '53 - a new magnificent library begun, a life-science building and a girls' dormitory completed, an agriculture lauilding in tlze offirzg. Ou tlze academic and cultural levels, new tlzings developed: in searclz for answers to age-old prolalems, a series of five pulalic lecture discus- sions, Mans Control of Mau, was presezztedg a student creative-writing cluli pulvlislzed a new caufzpzis ufzagazine, i'Tl1e l1zf1pulse g azzotlzergroup pul9lislzecl a lzuuzor magazine, King Tutng aud tlze freslmzeu were treated to a once weekly lec- ture via required attendance. And always, not really affected lay tlzese clzarzges, campus routine continued. Researclz, reaclzing into every plzase of liuman activity, continued witlz daily discov- ery of practical application of study.

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0ur Umverslty Too self conscious to be smug - too progressive to be modest . . Southern has suffered growing pains the last few years. She has adjusted admirably, however. Oh- jects of the offering of dollars to the academic gods often seemed misdirected, lout slowly evolving was the finished product - a modern complete univer- sity. There are, also, aspects of the university that cannot he improved with finances: its intellectual- ism, its awareness, its sensitivity. The problem, at times, seems not to he one of progress, lout of adjustment.

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Southern's Faculty: Helping to Create That Commodity Called an To 11111110 mm' lzmzor 1110 professors mi SOIITIICVII who are at the top of their fields, ll 1111111110 would serve Iwttvr 1114111 tlzcsa two pages. There are ft7Cl1IfIY mem- Iwrs ut SOIITIICVII 117110 are not good illSfVllCfOl'S, but tlzvrc arc umrzy more who ure. A1161 it must be re- llICllII7CVUli that LY defilzitimz of the genius of 41 good instrzrcmr iuclzrflcs more than his tcncllizlg tech- niqzws. A1161 tfzozfgfz all are 1'Cl7ClICl'S, not all are sclmlfzrs. Perlznlw most irrimtilzg to the Sozftlzern Stzfdent, is the lack of izztellecnml freedom 110 ob- serves in the positions of his irzstrzxctors. The in- structor often prccecles any cfisczzssimz O11 n 5e1 1Siti17e subject with words 511011 ns, Now, d011't mi51m01e1'- stand me, 1,177 not aclvocatimg either socialism or C0l'lI1'l'l'll17iSI'1'1.H A1'1d so on. The student is young eucmglz to have ideals. He has not yet learned the lzem'-sordid Compronzises that must be wmcle in nctufzl life. He nmy have observed, for instmfzce, that there 15 cut-tlzroat competition and repression of izfzitiative in umuy careers, but he has not yet learned that that condition prevails in the near revereol profes- 51011 01 U college professor. But he is also lauoyecl by T110 kzzowledge that there are marzy professors who 1'CfllSC 10 mnke these c011f1pr011 1ises. Georgia VVirzrz 15 not afraid to make her stzmle1 zt5 work. An Associate-professor 01 English, Dr. VVi1z1z is L1 master at holding n class mmlierzce. Size evolves each piece 01 litemlture into 01 por- trait 115 sensitive as her own. The English umjor and graduate values her as a warm friend and n competent judge. Since her arrival here in 1947, 5110 has easily been the most lzardworking and CO71SCi91'ZfiO1lS teacher in the English department. During the years 1943-46 she served as a com- HliSSi01fZ6wd officer in The WL1178S mfwl went to Ufaslziugton in '46 to assist: in the preparations for the Bikini a,tomic experiment. Besides work- ing hard on her classes, she has been preparing two 501105 01 English texts: Beacon Lights, literature rmtlzologies 101 grades 7-12, published by Iroquois, and Using Our Language, funda- mentals 01 grammar and composition for grades 7 and 8, pulolislzed by Wel7ste1', All the volumes are now out excepting the Beacon Light edi- tion to be publislzefl next spring for the twelfth grade. -