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Show The PARSON- - Page 2 THE PARSON Association Published by the Student Government From The Council Salt Editor-in-Chi- Lake City, ef - Managing Editor Managerial Staff No. 19 Utah, April 26, 1962 Associate Editor Feature Editor News Editor Sports Editors Business Manager Photographer Contributors - - - Gerald Bowden Penny Hartwell Sue Loomer Keith McCarty Judy Durfee Penny Goldsworthy Adrian Chan, Dick Homrighouse Larry Reynolds Stan Clark .. Jim Morris, Tom Metcalf, Curt Smith, Jim Hansen, Bill Powers, Ron Shelley FREEDOM THROUGH RESPONSIBILITY Growing Up Is A Part Of Growing The problem of increasing enrollment both quantitatively and qualitatively affects every one of us. Factors contributing to our enrollment problem seem to include every major issue which has been raised by the student body and administration this year. Any solution to the problem must, of necessity, be complex, and it would therefore be presumptuous of me to offer any solution as valid or absolute. There are however certain questions which must be answered if the problem is to be recognized before they may be understood: Why do students drop, and is the problem of retention closely linked to the problem of increased enrollment? Keep, in mind the fact that students sell Westminster three to one over any other means. What sort of students drop? We can reasonably assume that poor students are not the only ones to drop. Then this leads us to the crux of the enrollment and retention problems: Why are some of our better students leaving? Certainly part of the answer is financial, and another may be linked to higher institutional prestige elsewhere. It is becoming more evident that in fact this is due to a stagnant social and academic atmosphere. There seems to be an inbred fear of practicing what we preach, Jest we produce a deliterious public image. A prevailing fear of misguided student freedom, a deep seated fear that we must walk the rope of brinkmanship, one false move hurling the entire institution into both academic and economic chaos. A fear of controversy. d Neither high-flow- n rhetoric nor phrases will change the fact that students on this campus are not expected to be, thus not treated as adults. To many students this is not objectionable. To these it is easier to be told than to decide. To the sort of student which other colleges seem to be encouraging, however, are an odious affront to coddling and spoon-feedin- g both ones intelligence and individuality. -- Recognizing these as attitudes of many students would be one step toward their resolution. Other possibilities are: (1) Offer more impetus toward personal freedom; (2) Increase the scope of academic challenge (3) reduce the maternalistic role of the college (4) Correlate the factors with similar conditions' on other well-turne- campuses. Gerald Bowden LETTERS TO THE EDITORS The PARSON welcomes letters from students, fao ulty members and college staff. Any letter to the editor not obscene or libelous, shall be printed. The letter should contain not more than 200 words; nothing will be changed except for the slightest grammat leal errors. Letters express the opinion of the writer only. All letters must be signed but name will be withheld at writer's request. NEXT DEADLINE MAY 16, 1962 12 NOON PARSON OFFICE 2ND FLOOR FERRY True!. if! forth Mo doubt het emerge with some invention boding ill floras! With every student body election there seems to arise a crop of issues, sometimes manufactured just for the occasion. Every candidate is forced into the position of finding some vital or at least current point of interest that he or she can use to focus a little attention on themselves. Some of the issues seem to find their way to the nearest and are soon forcubby-hol- e is only natural, This gotten. because in a situation like ours, a candidate frequently finds it difficult to use something that is of importance to a good majority of students. But then again we have to realize the nature of the typical Westminster student. Most of us are here just for the education. What other incentives or less important purposes we find seem just to offer themselves to us and we either accept or reject them, depending upon how much time we have. One thing I think most of the more spirited students discover is the fact that you can't make most of the other students change their attitude. You can get their attention for a while, but in most cases its hard to hold it. Im not saying its wrong for a student to be concerned only in his education and GPA, (or himself). He should be allowed to. steer clear of other activities and interests if he wants. The point I want to make is that we should all realize that these candidates want and deserve our attention. This is their week and the results Friday will be important to them and to the school as a whole. If the candidates are providing us with some thought-provokinissues we should be satisfied and express our opinion to them. If some of the candidates are not offering us interesting topics to think on, we should try to move them to express themselves on something in which we are interested. I hope we are all able to participate in the election, even if its just for a few minutes while we have some g free .time. J. MORRIS Good luck Tuck and PS. Senior Class on your project. Important! S. G. A. C. Meeting Tuesday May 1, 1962 9:50 a.m. Room 26, 19C2 Letters To The Editor Pres. of Westminster College Vol. 8 April C-- 2 All Club Representatives and Class Presidents must be in attendance. Others WELCOME A Mr. Editor, All men would like to be God, if it were at all possible. Some find it difficult to admit the impossiiblity. Hitler experienced this difficulty and, in realization that his goal could not be reached, committed suicide. Nietzsche, Hitlers father image, pursued the same goal, but his pursuit of it was fantasy, tnd his inevitable achievement was psychosis. Plato, of whom Hitler and Nietzsche were disciples, iwas more successful, and, today, the reactionary tendencies of his philosophy are so disguised in subtle prose that he is adored by philosophic sophisticates the world over. The motive be- wish is, hind this ironically, the motive Nietzsche honestly admitted . . . the will to power. . It is a wonderful motive, for, held stable in its proper position, it impels the human organism to constructive activity, .but that it should rise to the fore and precede all other motives is precisely the turning point at which it becomes a destructive force and places in jeopardy not only the welfare of humanity at large, but the very life of him in whom it has become an insatiable, but deceptive, need. man-to-Go- d church-relate- d college cg. tablished on the honor Svs. tern, preaching .truth and hon or at every turn and worship ing in a chapel, but what is a chapel when it is not used for chapel services? A gym what else?! You walk into the gym Tuesday night and cheer your team onto a victory, but on Wednesday morning, you walk in for the purpose of worshiping God. How in the name of all that is dear and holy to one, can one worship in a gym?! One' really might be able to worship anyplace in .the streets of a busy town or in a football stadium just after a touchdown had been scored, any place at all. Even in a gym, one could worship, if, again I say if, an attitude of reverence or even respect prevailed, but this is not the case; the only attitudes are those of derision and bore dom. People sleep or do their homework or make love or crack jokes. Would any one of us do any of these things if we were in a real chapel, in a real church? No! Ones place of worship must first and foremost be a quiet, reverent place; our chapel isnt. A trite saying has been circulating this campus, stating: Westminster College is a small Christian college for Small Christians. And at each chapel period, one realizes the profound truth of this statement. When one first enrolls at Westminster, he enters wdth a belief in some sort of religion, and if not a at least a respect for belief, religion In our own country, where profess a the prime value of money is and those who one-halof f faith. But, within universally acknowledged, exa the semester, if not within cept in discussions about first few weeks, one loses this ideals when it is thus considin ered proper to be somewhat respect of religion or faith candid, power as a prime mo- "it, all because of our chapel. tive is yet all too prevalent. I realize that wTe cannot aIn all universities and colfford a new chapel as yet, and leges, excluding Westminster, that the students on this cambeginning freshmen are lecare of many and varied tured (generally by jesting pus faiths, but there must be some enterpreneurs) as to the inway that an atmosphere of significant number of years it reverence and quiet could be will take them to financially induced into our chapel pesurpass their trade bearing riod. For example, the signs We know on contemporaries. north wall blaring that these men are jesting, since" onethe should sign up few TENwhat they say is not at all NIS by Friday the 13th or true, but we are at least sparsign up for SOFTBALL by ed from becoming involved loth might be Monday with knowledge as a goal in removed the to avoid the attenitself; w'e are rendered free tion being diverted from the from the academic residue induce which clouds the pursuit of speaker. inThese signs of God mind ones our lambskins; we are free images dribbling a basketball down to be manipulated by industry the gym floor! Also, if the and enterprise and free to be students were given the oplaced, subsequently, in stero-typeto participate in the homes pportunity service, it woulu powith double car ports. Above chapel arouse more interest in all, we are thus free to invest ssibly more our energies into the neur-otic-e chapel and, hopefully, A for it. greater vrush toward the power respect be incould of speakers and money, a fantastic dream, ariety vited to speak to the students and to smugly recall and reon subjects that would be of gard the fine arts and the interest to us as stucontemplative things as the greater dents and would concern our whimsical fancies of our colrelationship with the world lege days. around us. I am referring BILL POWERS, specifically .to the chapel of April 11th. This topic Student . of whether or not to keep our neighbors out of our bomb d, sub-division- al ad-de- would shelters at more undoubtedly have been had interesting to us if we been a group of people wh were concerned about building and maintaining bomb shelters. But we aie are so many other sugun-poi- nt not-Ther- e .that would be of muen stu"greater interest to us us letter dents! I submit this with the sincere hope that the quality of.our chapel services might be improved. Miss Laura Norris bjects |