Wisconsin State Teachers College - Meletean Yearbook (River Falls, WI)

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an criticizes his institutions, his society and himself Learning is what happens when bright and informed minds meet. Therefore we need the brightest faculty and students. We need to encourage their minds to meet with as few imped- iments as possible. In these last few years of expansion, the problem - and the opportunity f has been great, but I am afraid that extra- neous prejudices have blinded us to the opportunities. We have not had the imagination to create what was possible but concentrated instead on the old rules and artificial forms of. academic bookkeeping. Old rigidities are creating new rigidi- ties and education may remain frightfully often a deadening bore instead of an exciting discovery, another crime in the It almost seems like the students at River Falls exist in a gestapo-like atmosphere where student opinion is stifled through fear of retaliation. The administrators are free to search through personal belongings of the student at any time of day or night, and students who refuse to give up the basic right of privacy are few and far between. Yet the stu- dent sits on his dead posterior and lets this happen. Amos Granville, Student Voice holy name of education. 4 Dr. E. N. Peterson It is easy to come here a stranger and show the whole works, write a boofgjix it all up - it is easy to come andgo away a muddle- headedpig, cz bum anda bag ofwind. U . . .Our University can wrap itself in mottoes and earnest statements about good communication and cooperation on campus, but it often stops at that point and allows sincere words to substitute for the reality of action. Sometimes it seems as if we are Wmoral men in an immobile society - lik- ing it here. As in other state universities in the Midwest, we draw a circle around the Hacceptablem persons and activities in the campus community, and subtly exclude the assistant profes- sor who ujust doesn't fit in anyway, and the student who might openly object to war or the Top 40 as a daily diet. We gather around the man who can outdrink and outhandshake the others in his fraternity or dormitory, and walk away from the man who can outwrite, outsymbolize, outphilosophize, 16 fe.s'z1.x' Salax mid students' ofhzi' bazlle pr the mznmzum wagefxr migrant workers. and outreason us. We are told that our years in a university will shake our complacencies and shape our future. But many of us hold the diploma, Ha lifetime work permit, as our goal, and each let- ter-grade as a signpost. We are products in a society tacking premiums on production, and we resist opening our lives or our University to different values that might radically alter our goals and our conception of valid signposts. When we so quickly say, uWe like it herew, we are often too prone to shut off our dreams f and dreams are the stuff of our future, and our University's future. At such time, we hope, we may Hlike it here more, and with greater reason for doing so. Harv Stower