University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Dean Williamson, Elizabeth Bird, and President Coffey during one of the many talks that helped students and faculty to a better understanding o-F each other's problems.

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The University

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D PIIQCITIC TI - The inspiration in the search for truth comes to the students from two sources: the administrators who work with them in their curricular and extra- curricular activities and the administrators and stu- dents who have gone much farther than we to hunt and fight for a peaceful way of life. Not until later do many students realize that they have, in fact, been helped by the men who comprise the faculty and administration of the school. Too often these men seem to hinder us in our college careers, but we cannot realize too soon that for your own goodu is a phrase that they tire of as much as we. For our own good these men have studied and worked to learn how to handle the dynamic per- sonalities that college students so often acquire. This year the campus itself was dynamic, and many changes came to the administrative and aca- demic group. A total of 570 employees left for war dutiesg and of that number, 459 joined the armed forces. Of the remainder, many were doctors and nurses who went on active duty overseas. From the student point of view, the strike in January was for our own good, but members of the administration spent many a sleepless night before the strike was settled and classes resumed. For our own good, too, the Office of the Dean of Students was completely rearranged this year. The department was set up in a series of units, and each unit was brought closer to the students. People who attended the University had the opportunity of knowing the men in charge better than any previous class. Despite the fact that the main oflice was nick- named Stupid Affairs, every student who had con- tact with the organization knew that this was far from the truth. To everyone at the University this year, the campus was very different from an ordinary year at college. There was much yearning after the good old days,', much talk of those who had gone, and many satirical tales of the Battle of Minnesota. But all of the students and all of the faculty looked to those who had gone for their greatest inspirationg and they prepared themselves and the campus for the time when the absent would return and the headlines would read Peace 992545