Youngstown University - Neon Yearbook (Youngstown, OH)

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Youngstown University is neither Harvard nor Podimk. It is, how- ever, a city college that seeks to make higher education available to all qualified high school graduates, and especially those in communities near the University. Its admission standards are liberal, the cost of its educational program is relatively low. YU therefore attracts many who couldn ' t afford to go elsewhere or couldn ' t gain admission elsewhere. Youngstown University is a chance. For some, it is an only chance. For others, it is a last chance. The average student at YU earns at least a major part of his educational expenses. He isn ' t the stereo- typed Joe College, gliding through four years at a school that is equal parts country club, football field, fraternity house, and drive-in theater. He isn ' t a crusader, petition signer, or wave-maker. The YU student is too involved in making a living, in earning a degree, to pose as a campus playboy. The individual in search of an education and not just a degree exists at Youngstown University, as does his opposite, the young man who sees his sheepskin as a certificate of performance, not a symbol of knowledge gained. Sometimes the seeker for truth gets lost in the crowds seeking success, at YU as elsewhere. Coeds who don ' t major or minor in Education and are not style conscious are individualists at YU. College men who carry green book bags and aren ' t interested in girls are rare here. Students who or- ganize to correct academic flaws, demonstrate to protest injustices, and congregate in spontaneous gath- erings to demonstrate their enthusiasm over a football game are even more difficult to find. This does not make YU an apathetic, spiritless school. It merely points out how well the University is fulfilling the role demanded of it by the community it serves: to educate as many students as possible, as efficiently as possible, as inexpensively as possible, and as well as possible. The frills, the traditions, the rolling campus greens will come later; in the meantime, YU must do its job with the materials at hand. Those who seek ivy-covered walls, extensive facilities, hallowed tradition, and wide reputation will probably be disappointed by Youngstown University. Those things are luxuries, and as yet we can ' t afford them. Those who seek an adequate or an outstanding education at a limited cost will find it here. YU educates each student as thoroughly as he wishes to be educated. A university can have no greater justification.