University of Detroit - Tower Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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Concern shown for oneself Robert Kennedy describes the present college generation as one of unusually genuine and intense concern with social justice. It is easy to see ramifications of this concern for others at U-D: practically every organization on campus lists at least one service project. But this concern for others doesn't just mean giving assistance to those experiencing hard times. It also means developing oneself to one's fullest potential. If the geometrical postulate-sa the whole is equal to the sum of its parts--r applies here, it means that society can mature only at the rate that its individual members do. In coming to this Jesuit university, students place themselves in an environment conducive to maximum maturity. All undergraduate degree programs have requirements in theology and philosophy. More liberally oriented, the Arts College requires courses in history, a social science, speech, English, a foreign lan- guage, Fine Arts, and math or science. The chance to development oneself extends beyond the classroom and enables one to attain his true self. Reg1'straI1'011 is Ihe-formal prmwx Ofgvlllillg inm clr1s,s'es. After skillful nzaneuvering. John Walxon has an easy Iwo agauixr Purdue'

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W Www: X ,B The U D Dania! Salma!c'm1IrihuIt',S'a major .vervice 10 Detroit by educating a majarilgx' Qflhc Clif-1 .Y a'erzI1'.x'r.x'. Ll' D ,vlzlclerilx learn by Il'Ut'f1I'lIIQ in Detroit .s't'l11ml.s1 vena: A wono THAT EXPRESSES ACTlON Sll'lPLE PREDICATEI WHAT is me suaiecr ore interest in people, than ideas Writing of a New Breed of college student which he feels was all but invisible five years ago, the Rev. Andrew M. Greeley, SJ., notes that they 'are more interested in people than in ideas. He finds them almost without a coherent political philosophy. Nationally, Fr. Greeley recognizes the New Breed in the volunteers for the Peace Corps, the Extension home missions, and especially the various inner city student programs. Like Fr. Greeley, T. E. Blackburn, editor of the Marqaetle UHl'V6f.91'I'l' Magazine, finds a large part of the cause and symbol of these students in the person of John F. Kennedy. Of the late President, Blackburn writes: He came into office with a youthful administration pledged 'to get the country moving againf The men around him were not long removed from campuses themselves. He points out that one of the first things Kennedy did was to launch the peace corps and for the first time in memory someone 'up there' told the college student how he could help. Some U-D students worked in poor areas in Mexico and Alaska. Others worked in Detroit's blighted zones. Others spoke to high school students on human relations. ,.