Wilkes University - Amnicola Yearbook (Wilkes Barre, PA)

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Wilkes College is a place to be lonely in a crowd or enshrined at a dorm party. It is a place to be in love with a student, laugh- ing with others and to be lost: physically, mentally, spiritually. In short, Wilkes Col- lege is a place for living. But Wilkes is also a school which looks back on almost a half a century of history and tradition, a school which prides itself upon ingenuity, l'hell raising, academic excellence and even daring. Its very name conjures up visions of blue and gold, wrestling, bio-pre-med and calcula- tors. In fact, Wilkes College is tat least to its studentsi somewhat of a legend. So how does one accurately portray Wilkes College student life in the year 1978-1979? If one talks only of the leg- end. he may speak merely in cliches, arriving at a picture of an institution that no student would consider quite sincere. But if one emphasizes only the individual, he not only attempts a task far too com- plex, but he loses some of the unique- ness of Wilkes College as a whole. One must show both sides, for each student represents one of those differentials of individuality that makes Wilkes what it is just as Wilkes represents one of those dif- ferentials of experience that make a stu- dent's life what it will be. Wilkes College is life and legend - the pointlessness or the price of a time - honored tradition; the sorrow or the magic of an ordinary day.

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Study: The Long Lonely Struggle One can surround himself with a crowd at a football game, wrestling match, a party, or even in the library for one of those last minute cram sessions, but when he comes right down to ttthe moment of truth tan examt, he finds him- self utterly alone. He may claim that ttknowiedge is the only important thing - and a few rare, fortunate people can truly feel this way - but if he is like most, he knows that basically he wants to be on the sweet part of that grade curve tpass- ingl In the dog-eat-dog world of Wilkes College, a student's struggle for aca- demic survival depends greatly on the isolated individual. Thus one can recognize two reasons for the vast amount of study that charac- terizes the Wilkes Campus; first, the stu- dent wishes to learn; secondly, the stu- dent wishes to succeed. The two can occur simultaneously, but need not. Indeed, one often has difficulty determin- ing whether ego or dedication drives a man. In either case or in both, the lonely hours with books and thoughts are mostly dreaded, but it is in these hours that the great constellations were charted, the great novels were written and the great schools were given the formulations of their worth.