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Show The New Concepts Of Education and the demonstration last spring which curt I as a result of his not including a replace of the Annex in his state education plans, some-tiling some-tiling far more reaching than quality of ri or floors or ceilings or stairs was lost Perhaps we are all victims of the space-;; education era. Perhaps we have come, in a It-short It-short years, to identify a missile standing tall in'. Cape Kennedy blue, with a new medical built and all its glass and metal and push-button air towering over the campus and announcing to l iO. state and the world, "I am the symbol of tie i H concept of education." k5( PERHAPS UNDER this new concept of sf ft I ing billions for "education" we will find a. ( QJV extra dollars somehow locating themselves mP j i fessors' billfolds. I Perhaps when the United States finally t $ a man on the .Moon or on Mars we wi I g : some of our values and ask ourselves, wnoj g all is responsible for this gigantic feat? The r ' of tax dollars or the handful of profasw g taught these brilliant scientists in shabby class . g and worn chairs and cobwebb corners? By SANDY GILMOUR George Santayanna taught many of his Harvard classes outside, in the cool of a Cambridge spring " breeze, or the sun of a New England Indian Summer. Sum-mer. His blackboard, I have heard, was nature; his classroom, the world. When the biting snows and winds of the northeast tore through the college col-lege community, he only found it necessary to move into a room above a downtown shop. The chairs were falling apart, cracks adorned the plaster walls, and the corners were musty and cobwebby. However shabby these halls of education, students always left with a renewed sense of being, new insight and stimulation, new knowledge. knowl-edge. I do not know how valid the story is, nor does its particular validity concern me. I got the information informa-tion from a Harvard scholar, whose classrooms were no nicer than the Math Building or. the Biology. Building or the Annex, when he went there. V Reflection on the above story always makes me wonder about students who complain more about the quality of the physical plant than the quality of the teachers who use those facilities. Those students do not like the chipped stone stairs which lead to the Annex from the gravel-instead-of-grass ground which surrounds it rhey do not like the coffee served in the Huddle room or the torn felt in the pool room in the Student Stu-dent Union. They complain about the hot library and j the cramped conditions in the stacks. They do not enjoy biology classes because the chairs are too hard and packed too closely. They complain about crowded classrooms and refuse to take a 7-45 class or one in the afternoon. Our student government want to add $50,000 to the current $50,000 of student, funds to the kth-Lldhnf'w kth-Lldhnf'w 3t the University. :We want a new Fieldhouse. We want new roads. -We want new bSSSL W. We7ant t0 fi UP the udent uS bui ding. We need new ping pong tables We need a bigger Union Little Theatre. are w E ?ERf iS 'USt a beging. Billions are now being spent on an astronomical buildine program currently under way and we can see Sf results springing up at regular intervals thA l ?nnf hGlp but feel in midst of all the antagonism built up toward Gov Clyde |