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Show Life requires a commitment During his speech at the University's Sports and Special Events Center Thuesday, former vice president Hubert Humphrey touched on the subject of making commitments in life. This subject has particular importance for most students because the emphasis on academic freedom often tends to cause them to vacillate in the empty space between conflicting con-flicting ideas without ever making a decision. Many students misinterpret academic freedom to mean that they should give any idea as much credence as another. They haven't explored the concept fully enough. In failing to do so, they have not realized that academic freedom means giving all ideas the same opportunity for discussion. Free discussion and the necessity to make decisions, however, are not incompatible. We must only remember to keep an open ( mind when we commit ourselves. When we realize that we have made a mistake, we must have the courage to admit it and then to change the conditions which brought that mis- j take about. But if students refuse to make a commitment to one idea or another, they will have wasted their knowledge. Their I ideas will become useless to them unless they are tried out. Very few people have learned without getting roughed up a little in the process. As Mr. Humphrey said in applying the necessity to make commitments to the quest for peace in the world, peace is not merely the absence of war. Peace requires a lot of hard work. And that work requires a commitment from all of us. |
