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Show A 1944 Editorial We come to college for so many reasons it's hard to say very definitely just why we do. At base, the true reason must be that we wish to study, to learn and to become be-come finer, more intelligent people. At the same time, another aspect of college life holds great importance for us . . . the activities, the celebrations, the people. All these, as WE ARE LUCKY TO BE much as our classes, shape WHERE AND WHAT our characters and give us WE ARE a basis for a rich life, and they cannot be pushed into the background or ridiculed. At present no student wishes to miss out on the Homecoming activities, even though he may not take a particularly active part . . . singing in the quartets or acting in the skits or even sitting up all night doing house decorations. Homecoming means fun for everyone, every-one, and no one should be left out. However, while we are busy with these activities, while we're enjoying ourselves, it might be well if we took tim out to realize just how fortunate we are: fortunate to be where we are; fortunate to be what we are and above all, fortunate that we can laugh and play, that we can go to football games and dances, that the war has not really touched us yet. And it hasn't. Most of us have no inkling whatever of what war is ... it is so remote that we scarcely think about it. We allow ourselves to settle down in a narrow little world never looking beyond, never getting out of our rut. The average coed knows there is a war only because dates may be fewer and further between. We must stop and think that this is serious business and we must always remember that many of the boys we grew up with, are now go-WE go-WE SHOULD SEE ing to a school which teach- BEYOND OUR OWN es them that when they SMALL WORLD meet a German or a Jap they must kill or be killed. Those boys we knew are changing and growing while many of us are remaining just as we were, becoming daily more citizens of Salt Lake, narrow in our viewpoints, than citizens citi-zens of the world. And how can we make ourselves realize just how serious seri-ous the world situation is? How can we really realize that there is a war when the weather is beautiful and everything every-thing is essentially the same as it always has been? Each of us must find the answer to that problem for himself through his own thinking and action. College is fun and life is fun, just as it should be, but, if we can also see the more serious aspects, if we can look beyond our campus and ourselves, utilmately we will be happier, finer, better adjusted human beings. We will be very real people. |