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Tradition is a word you hear a lot here. But tradition, the very word, should imply a questioning— if not then it ' s not tradition but habit. Real tradition has a way of reaffirming itself. When this can ' t be done, things should change. Washington and Lee is now in the process of changing a backlog of habits. Start with the faces of things— the real exterior. No Saturday classes— what does this imply? A fine example of student initia- tive, sure, but the stuff which courses through the lifeblood of a university is not made up of such things as how a schedule should be organized. Or is it? Perhaps too many people have thought so— perhaps that ' s why we didn ' t lose Saturday classes sooner. Or the fraternities— they ' re mixed up in this too. Are they a habit? If not, perhaps they ' ve got some reaffirming to do. On the surface things haven ' t changed much here. It ' s the same first semester rush. Maybe the difference is more gesture than habits. But gestures point to something, emphasize a basic line of thought. We must ask, Gesture to what, emphasize what? vssssffM L 0A
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If fraternities cannot answer tliese gestures, periiaps the frestiman class point out the direction things are headed. A lot was said about the class of 72. Do they tread on tra- dition, or merely yearn at habit? Does this year ' s freshmen forecast a characteristic mixture that will distinguish future classes as well? Can fraternities survive such a change in attitude— are they acceptable only to a single type? But freshmen should be more concerned with the uni- versity than with the fraternities. So far the surface has hardly been scratched. A far-sighted curriculum committee has gained impetus toward changes that go deeper perhaps than anything of current interest. You hear the word competitive a lot. Is W L competitive with other schools? Whether we like it or not, we can ' t sit bacl and let students find us. The gentlemen-scholar myth; perhaps repolishing is not enough. One of those terms, at least, may be obsolete. Obviously, our faculty has decided it should not be the latter.
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