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Show Editorial Scholarship Fine, More Is Needed In light of today's highly specialized, highly sophisticated institutions of higher learning, the classical clas-sical definition of the university as a "community of scholars" seems wholly inadequate. The modern university is not just a community of scholars, but rather a community. In America a university becomes not only a complex of classrooms, but a separate entity: a city within a city, a town with its own radio, television, newspaper, dance and opera troupes, and even its own government. It is a miniature United States, a practice scrimmage before be-fore the game with Cold-Cruel World. In short the modern university no longer deals solely with theory; it also provides opportunity for application. Past experience indicates that this year will again see only a small per cent of the University's students taking advantage of the practical side of campus life. The vast majority will put in the required re-quired number of hours in class, drink a Coke in the Huddle and return home, convinced that the University Univer-sity is, indeed, a cold, impersonal school. For these people the University has become the for shadowing of the nine-to-five routine which will mark the next forty years of their lives. All that is lacking is the daily ritual ritu-al of the punching of a time card. ' Because the University is large, and more particu larly because it is basically a commuter school, the new student is likely to find that his circle of friends remains re-mains pretty much the same, unless he makes a concerted con-certed effort to make new acquaintentships. Some would have us believe that the only means to this end is through social clubs. This assertion is, of course, absurd. For the student stu-dent with talent in art, writing, and photography the University offers four publications as organs of expressions expres-sions "The Chronicle," "Utonian," the year-book; "Pen," the literary magazine, and a new, as yet unnamed un-named publication for long articles and essays. I For the musically talented there is a plethora of instrumental and choral groups. In addition, the student stu-dent union offers innummerable committees for those who just want to make new acquaintences and become involved in the social activities of the University. We hope this will be the year the students of this j university became a community, not only of scholars, but of citizens. |
