Southern University - Jaguar Yearbook (Baton Rouge, LA)

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FACULTY A proficiency in reading is fundamental to the education of every individual. For the college student it is the focal point which determines his scholastic success. It can help to intensify his academic achieve- ment, strengthen his social adjustment, inspire his spiritual contemplation, and improve his mental health. Reading is a complex psychological process that fuses symbols with their spoken meaning to compre- hend the writer's thoughts. lt touches all other sub- jects. It is concerned with virtually all learning. lt is the most common and efficient way of accumulating knowledge, of garnering the raw materials of educa- tion. It is, moreover, highly individual, when reaction is as important as assimilation. ln other words, read- ing in its most subtle form is thinking and feeling, and to these two there is no limit, no common denomina- tor, no closed doors. gf Selcy S. Collins, Acting Chairman of Developmental Services. ln the conceptualization of a course, I make an attempt to achieve a rigorous approach appropriate to the in- creased sophistication of today's students. This includes a critical, and it is hoped, a challenging concern with re- search questions via discussions. Structurally, it entails a framework based on the integra- tion of relevant biological, psychological, and sociological data. Such a framework is essential for organizingthe large and unwieldy mass of knowledge which has accumulated so rapidly in the behavioral sciences. Students are then able to see how the contributions of several scientific fields fit together to make a more complete picture, to see the full complexity and richness of human behavior, and to see, as Goethe states it, that 'science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality! Gloria Adams, Acting Chairman of Social Sciences. 36f372

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Sherolyn Beard, Josephine Devers, Dean's Office Humanities ff' R S I T C A A F L F Karolyn Mayo, Val M. Devers, Fanny Dunn, Dean's Office Reszistrar's Office Social Science a! S' iiifl .L 4 f v Mk ' - if Wir ,g E -M ff W. . Barbara Brown, Norma T. Shelton, Vice Presidents Office Registrars Office Dyanne V. Walker, 35f371 Consortium ,AJ 'Nr K lnell Prelow, Natural Sciences

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Dr. Carl Kirksey, Chairman of Natural Sciences Dr. Dewey McNeice, Acting Chairman of Commerce 371373 ln multiples of a hundred they come each year, bringing with them an unfixed array of backgrounds checked and unchecked, balanced and unbalanced. Yet they do not come with the emptiness of the un- filled beaker or the fullness of the overflowing flask. They bring their eagerness, their earnestness, their hunger to learn in days the secrets which mystified the ancients for years. They also bring a subtle defi- ance befitting all who belong to this age. Through them we can see how little we all once knew and how much we have yet to learn. Chance favors the prepared mind.