Southern University - Jaguar Yearbook (Baton Rouge, LA)

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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.

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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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As I look back on education inthe 60's and pro- ject into the 7O's, I am reminded of the slogans we used and the slogans the educational community used when I was a student. But now as then, the problem is that they were slogans, just slogans. This problem suggests both the crisis of education today and the tremendous opportunity for creative and innovative revists to education - revists, the results of which could make today's various and sundry indictments of irrelevancy unfounded. In predominantly Black institutions where the major problem now is survival as substantive and symbolic institutions, the opportunity seems brightest. The traditional problems of academic defensibility and symbolic legitimacy should no longer be the pre- occupation of Black institutions. Instead, the work of codification and formal presentation of models already devel- oped becomes a critical responsibility which Black institutions must indubitably meet. Therefore, we should move forward, unafraid to tread the unfamiliar waters of leadership in education in this country, finally realizing that our dues have been paid, and knowing that the returns on this investment are now long over-due. Joe L. Smith, Director of Consortium. Grant me greening to outpace my graying or I shall not have a tree-life. I shall be single-seasoned. Grant me flaming to undo my freezing or I shall not have a flower-life. I shall go bloom-barren. Grant me surging . to upset my still-standing g I or I shall not have a river-life. ' I I shall live pool-stagnant. Grant me loving to overflow my loathing or I shall not have a rain-life. I shall die dust-drenched. - Electa Wiley Published in Encore ,M I believe that a 'good' teacher is one who is knowing, and tells only for clarification, one who wants the student to compete with himself, to hang loose and get high from his own growing insight, to use every class as a happening to enlarge his perceptibility, and to expend thought and action toward proficiency in what, hopefully, will be a lucrative career. Dr. Wiley, Chairman of Humanities 38f374