University of Wisconsin River Falls - Meletean Yearbook (River Falls, WI)

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Man criticizes his institutions. his society and himself Learning in what happens when bright and informed mind meet. Therefore we need the brightest faculty and students. We need to encourage their minds to meet with as few imped imentsus possible. In these last few years of expansion, the problem and the opportunity has been great, but I am afraid that extraneous prejudices have blinded us to the opportunities. We have not had the imagination to create what was possible but concentrated instead on the old rules and artificial forms of academic bookkeeping. Old rigidities arc creating new rigidities and education may remain frightfully often a deadening bore instead of an exciting discovery, another crime in the holy name of education. Dr. K. N. Peterson It almost seems like the students at River Falls exist in a gestapo-like atmosphere where student opinion instilled through fear of retaliation. The administrators are free to search through personal belongings of the student ill any lime of day or night; and students who refuse to give up the basic right of privacy are few and far between. Yet the student sits on his dead posterior and lets this happen. Amos Granville, Student Voice Jnut Salat lalil iluilenlt of hit bailie for the minimum wage for migrant workers. “It is easy to come here a stranger and show the whole works, write a book, fix it all up — it is easy to come and go away a muddle-headed pig, a bum and a bag of wind. ” ...Our University can wrap itself in mottoes and earnest statements about good communication and cooperation on campus but it often stop at that point and allows sincere words to substitute for the reality of action. Sometimes it seems as if we are “moral men in an immobile society' liking it here. As in other slate universities in the Midwest, we draw a circle around the “acceptable persons and activities in the campus community, and subtly exclude the assistant professor who “just doesn't lit in anyway,'' and the student who might openly object to war or the Top 40 as a daily diet. We gather around the man who can outdrink and outhandshake the other in his fraternity or dormitory, and walk away from the man who can outwrite, outsymboliie, out philosophize. and outreason us. We are told that our years in a university will shake our eomplacencies and shape our future. Hut many of us hold the diploma. a lifetime work permit. as our goal, and each letter-grade as a signpost. We are produets in a society tacking premiums on production, and we resist opening our lives or our University to different values that might radically alter our goals and our conception of valid signposts. When wc so quickly say, “We like it here , we are often too prone to shut off our dreams and dreams arc the stuff of our future, and our University's future. At such time, wc hope, wc may “like it here more, and with greater reason for doing so. 16 llarv Slower

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the words of men from spoken syllables to rushing rivers of books begetting books, to speech and image transmissions crowding the day and the night air for the looking and listening Family of Man—

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A university is a plnec where mun can defy popularly held concepts in his search for truth, because the institution does not exist to make a profit, propogatc a set of constant values or bend before public pressures ... It is a place of turmoil and intellectual ferment because man in the university is not content with what is but seeks what ought to be. —Dr. John A. Oostendorp hath ft James Gr f bi i poke • the inert m-crimination against S'egroet n II'ikohiim. It seems to be a very sad state when there are not more than 40 people out of 3,000 who lake the time to listen to a man discussing n problem which we have ignored for more than 200 years. Come on R. F. get off your backsides and accept the challenges that this University does offer you. Run fast before you become a produet of your own environment. —Student Voice editorial, after Father Groppi speech, April 3 The Studcn. Sonic urges you lo icll your friends nbou. River Falls. By reeruiling ne. students for neat year, you are serving the students and the school. Without additional students, more of you are required to live in dorms; and such programs as athletics, music, theatre, the Meletean and Voice and convocations suffer for lack of student funds. Let's keep our school a growing institution. Thank you - WSU-RF Student Senate “The people, yes, Out of what is their change from chaos to order and chaos again ? ” 17