Western Michigan University - Brown and Gold Yearbook (Kalamazoo, MI)

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Western Michigan University provides four communities in one for its student residents. Realizing that the academic sphere must be complemented by programs of vigorous phys- ical activity and with social and cultural opportunities, the University plans its overall programs with the grow th of the complete student in mind. In carrying out expansion of outward facili- ties, the University has also expanded op- portunities available to the individual student for advancement in the supplemental areas of development. Opportunities have been provided from sym- phony concerts to a lengthy series of speak- ers, from new forms of using the library ' s facilities to added resource areas, from ex- panded athletic areas to newly-developed in- tramural activity fields. In all forms of development the University is continuing to move toward the goal of an ever-larger and more diversified community.

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Western is meeting the challenge of the present and future. It is stepping ahead with the student ' s interest in mind. It isn ' t only a University that attempts to achieve a certain academic standing but tries to instill in each and every individual a cer- tain amount of pride, distinction, and aware- ness that life must be met with an open-mind and faith in those around him. There are many reasons why Western can be considered outstanding but the most impor- tant is the fact that it strives to better the individual, the seed that grows, develops, and determines the outcome. A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. Walt Whitman 11