University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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I think students, If they react like I did, they make decisions too soon. Maybe . . . Idontt know. There is probably no more friction between Columbia towns- people and the college students than there is between any towns- people against people of college age. Theytre plague until they,re a little older, that,s really true. It is. Theytre old enough to know right from wrong, and maybe more about situations than older people do, but they are still young enough to have a little vigor and get into a problem or two. I think Columbia is probably a typical town. It just has more people of that age to contend with. I guess Pve rambled on and on. Art Thurman DX Station Owner

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Theyire plague until they re older Ilm not saying Columbia wouldnlt be here, but the business would not be here if it weren,t for the students. Of course, business comes in anticipation of what is going to be; there is no doubt that the students, or the university, or the colleges constitute a large part - either the instructors or the students themselves. I think the economics that Columbia gains is from positions the university offers the people in town, not necessarily the money the students spend here. The townspeople that the university hires; the maintainance people, the garage people - therels a pretty good sized payroll over there. I think the economic impact of the students is in certain areas of town. In certain businesses, the students are the backbone. From the ages of, Pd say, 18 to 24 or 25, people donlt really know, they donlt really have goals. In that particular time in their life, they are looking for what they want to do. As far as taking up a curriculum or heading up a career when they are 18 or 19, or even 20 years old, is, to me, a little ridi- culous. There is no way they can know, when they graduate from school and have done well in what they have studied to be, whether there are other things maybe they would like better or maybe they can do better. How do they know? You have to have some experiences. iDid you feel this way when you were 18 or 19?l The thing I am aware of now, I think, is that I was never aware of this until I got older and older. I really didnlt get any wiser. I Just got more aware. Say youlre sitting down to think about what youlld like to do. Maybe youlld think about it for two weeks, or two months, or two years, but if you pursue some direction, and itls wrong, youlre spending 40 years of your life in something you spent only two years deciding to do.

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There always has been, it seems, a lot of students who think business people are against them. This is a bad feeling for them to have. I donlt think they really are. Just a few students who try to pass bad checks, get out of line, party too much in apartments create a problem. The business men then try and throw them all together and say if onels bad, they are all bad, and it isnlt that way. But they have to protect themselves. The students are just beginning to be adults. This is a danger- ous age because they get a lot of freedom and not much knowledge as to how to live away from home. Theylre sowing wild oats and feeling their strength. They like to be treated as adults, yet when you treat them like adults if theylre not, theylll sign leases when theylre not 21 and hid behind the fact they are not 21, so you canlt do anything. I didn,t get my parents to sign that. It is a two-way street. If they want to be treated like adults, then they have to act like adults all the way, too. This is, I think, the biggest problem between the students and the landlords. I do try to treat them all as adults, and expect them to act accordingly.