University of Nebraska Kearney - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Kearney, NE)

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Kearney has .suffered growing pains the last lew years. She has adjusted admir- ably, however. Amidst the turmoil that results in a doubling ul enrollment over a period of 4 years we suddenly found ourselves lacking in facilities. Our Student Union is obviously inadequate to the needs of the campus. As one student put it 'M picked my own pocket twice before I knew it, Because ol inadequate housing conditions many students were subjected to the wrath of the “feather merchants, who have more respect for the dollar than for humanity. Suddenly, thanks to the untiring eriorLs of our great President, we have three new buildings in the making. Approximately $1,000,000 dollars is being expended on this project. We could use another million to correct some of the other inadequacies, however, wc must be patient because wc know that time is a healer of all things.

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Nebraska State's Faculty: Helping To Create That Commodity Called An Intelligent Individual. To name and honor the professors at Kearney who are at the top of their fields, a volume would .serve better than these two pages.. There arc I acuity members at Kearney who are not good instructors, but there are many more who are. And it must be remembered that a definition ol the genius of a good in- structor includes more than his teaching tech- niques. And though all are teachers, not all are scholars. Perhaps most, irritating to the Kearney Student, is the lack ol intellectual freedom he observes in the positions of his instructors. The instructor often precedes any discussion on a sensitive subject with the words such as, Now, don’t misunderstand me. Pm not advocating what I say. And so on. The. student is young enough to have ideals. He has not yet learned the near-sordid compromises that must be made in actual life, He may have observed, lor instance, that there is cut-throat competition and repression ol initiative in many careers, but he has not yet learned chat that condition prevails in the near revered profession of a college protest sor. But he is also buoyed by the knowledge that there are many professors who refuse to make these compromises. Page 10 Pmfcssor Colvin T. Ryan o nut afraid 1.0 make ho 'Ludent work. A.s Chairman ! the LneliT IV p.irtiiH'iit, Mr. Ry.m is , mii-KT -it Imklinp .» audience. He evolves each piece ni literature mi« ;i portrait a sensitive a his own. The English maior and t»r:telu:tto values him as a warm friend and a eninpiUnt judge, Mr. Ry.m ha been a 'fi'mig public relation:- attribute for NSTC! in his educa- imn.il and religious t;iIkmi KXIFW ratlin. To Iist all of hi attributes here would be imjinsdble. Through the years we will remember ('. T. as a valued I riel id Iveause we value wb.it lu g.ive.