University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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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.

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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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Sometimes they donlt. Therels where the problem starts. You never remember the good guy, the one who didnlt'cause you any trouble, the run-of-the-mill, the average. You remember the exceptionally good person or the exceptionally bad person . If you have interviews with ten people a day, and one gives you a whole lot of trouble and har- rassment, when you get through at night youlre shook up, and youlre mad, and you donlt remember the nine that were good and treated you fair, you remember that one who gave you all the trouble. The first year I was here, we rented to undergraduates, and were not renting to under- graduates anymore. It used to be that freshman and sophomores had to live on-campus, and then juniors and seniors could live off-campus. Theylre just at the age when they can start buying liquor. This is bad. Those are the two years I see most of the kids having trouble. They aren't used to freedom and donit know how to handle it. It takes two years for most of them to find out that if they use those two years right, then the next four are going to be good, and if they didnlt use those two right, why theylve wasted the two before. Itls self-discipline for each one. Some can stand it, and some people canlt. A businessman going into business for himself has to self discipline himself to get up in the morning and go out and work. You have to apply yourself or you arenit going to be a sucess. Those first two years off-campus, away from home, will be the years that will tell you if that man is going to work for somebody else or work for himself . Iwould give this advice to students. When they first get their freedom, go into it easy, donlt mis-use it or abuse it . Gene Schultz, Owner, Broadway Apts.