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THE DIRECTION OF CHANGE AT WASHINGTON AND LEE The task of Washington and Lee University as it enters the 1970 ' s is two-told. We need to retain the traditional strengths and basic values that have made Washington and Lee over the years the institution of distinction that it is today, while at the same time we must give new directions which the changes of the times require. Washington and Lee in 1970 is very much caught up in the tidal wave of change which is currently sweeping across the American college scene. On this campus, there appears to be one basic direction of recent changes in both the academic and the social spheres, namely the assumption by the individual student of much greater responsibility for his own education. The revisions in the curriculum, effective with the 1970-71 session, are a manifestation of the belief that a student should have the maximum degree of freedom and responsibility in shaping his course of academic study, consistent with the breadth of a liberal arts education. The liberalized distribution requirements are an expression of the University ' s commitment to this philosophy. The new academic calendar of three terms is designed to encourage all students to pursue independent work and in-depth research to a much greater extent than has heretofore been possible. During his undergraduate years, a student should develop most of all the desire to continue learning, on his own, and the role of the new curriculum will be to encourage each student to learn for himself. In the social sphere, the past year has seen significant departures from the concept of in loco parentis that has prevailed for so long on this campus. The liberalized dormitory and fraternity regulations and the removal of the last restrictions on student ownership and control of automobiles indicate an increasing regard for student maturity, as well as greater reliance on individual student responsibility for his actions outside the classroom. By the construction of the new University Center, the liberalized car regulations, and the recently enacted program of delayed fraternity pledging, the University is attempting to provide more viable alternatives for student social life and living arrangements. Hopefully, the construction of additional upperclass dormitory facilities in the next few years will widen the area of choice still further. In addition to the construction of the new University Center, Washington and Lee is moving ahead to meet the most critical physical needs of the University. The addition to Doremus Gymnasium is now under construction, and new facilities for the Commerce School, the Law School, and the Library are in the planning stages. In other areas. University committees are already hard at work studying such basic questions as coeducation and optimum size of the University. Students are deeply involved in these deliberations, and careful consideration will be given to student opinion on all basic policy questions affecting the future course of this University. The challenges of the 1970 ' s are formidable indeed, but the changes of the recent past give cause for considerable optimism that Washington and Lee can continue to offer superior teaching for the individual student, while at the same time placing even greater responsibility on the shoulders of the individual student for his own education. The changes of the next decade should help to develop further the facility of critical thinking, just as the changes of recent years are challenging the student to think for himself, rather than to follow blindly rigid requirements and prescriptions laid down for him by others. This University is well aware that the valuable intellectual development is self development. Lewis G. John Dean of Students
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