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Your neighbor nity leader, a business Freddie, for instance, who by Carli Dixon guest writer cant make a buck out of your brain power, it just 1 DOS SERRANOS BORDER GRILL j j Steam-powere- . 5-- 5-- 7-- j Westminster College JhE pORUM Production Manager Jenny Cobb BusinessAd Manager Emily Kellett Editor Heather King Copy Editor Carrie Price Sports Editor Christopher Wilcox i Jared Barnard i ! , ' , Arts & Entertainment Editor Mel Parkinson Photo Editor Faculty Advisor Brad Ericson Writing Staff Jared Barnard Cindy Bradley Kristin E. Briggs Nicole Carrera Jo Fairclough Paul Gadd , Emily Kellett . Lee Daisy Brody Macey Jennifer Mecham Holly Millerberg Melissa Parkinson Amber Sundin Christopher Wilcox Photo Staff Jared Barnard Cindy Bradley Jenny Cobb Howe Quan Amber Sundin l ! ? J ? September 18 1996 toils 60 hours a week in a dead-en- d job, spends his channel evenings surfing, and lives for the weekena. Think hes going to save the world? Think hes going to care whos president? Think hes going to spend one second dwelling on the state of our water supply? No. Ana thats why you have to do it. Like it or not, you, with your college degree will be making the decisions about what kind of world we will live in. And if you choose to learn only the details of that narrow little sphere known as your field so you can make big bucks winning law cases or starting your own company, you will at best live a narrow, boring, disconnected little life, without grace or enlightenment-- and at worst, you will do irrevocable harm. So Im sorry. I think you have to learn science. Even if youre an English major. Because ignorance, if it doesnt kill us, cant make things good, or beautiful, cant even make things better. Ignorance keeps us stuck like flies on a strip. Science can give us the knowledge and the technology to heal the planet, and help us create wider, deeper, richer, more satisfying lives of limitless potential. There is education, and there is ignorance. 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