Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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J fOlllld myself unqualifiedly, proudly praising XVesleyan again the other dayethis time to a class at VVethersfield High School. Frequently critical of our direction, I am puzzled by this. A senior expressed the same discomfort. When I complained that so many students seemed ter- ribly dissatisfied with, even bitter at, Wesleyan, he observed that they are insufferable brag- gards about this place when off campus, among parents and friends. My friends discomfort and mine mirror truth. At Wesleyan our scholarship falls far short of our potential. We are forever Imaking Wesleyan the real world, while enjoying the comfort of great wealth, embarrassingly easy lives, and unreal rulelessness. Our politics are mostly posturing, mixed generously with intol- erance in the cause of freedom and psy- chological assaults labeled love. But our impluse to praise is not whimsical. It wells up from occasional scholarly brilliance in many in Wesleyan, and from the enduring in- tellectual lustre of a few. From the exceptional talents one is always discovering among his ac- quaintances here. F mm the incredible maturity in one-to-one relations between many faculty and students. Wesleyan,s impulse for freedom looses these contradictions, for the relaxin of formal re- straints that is a precondition ogfreedom is also an invitation to self-indulgence. This has been the tension in Wesleyan during the five years I have been here-and I suppose long before. How does a University feed the aspiration for freedom, having abandoned formal restrictions, and stave ofI the retrograde tendencies that so quickly and easily set in? Wesleyan has not yet answered that ques- tion, nor has it set upon a clear course toward its resolution. Many of us who care deeply about IVesleyan, and who yearn to see freedom in the academy succeed, now leave that issue, still very much in doubt, in the hands of oth- ers-some our friends, some just successors-to whom we lovingly bid good fortune in the search. David Adamany :nmvamva 13