Education Meaning
Dear Editor,
This is a letter of commendation and condemnation.
Heartiest commendations to both the Student Activities Committee and the Student Senate! Their cooperative efforts have provided the TC campus with several extra-curricular opportunities this year. The speakers — James Lumpp and Jack Anderson — plus “The Merchant of Venice,” the dinner and musical theaters, the Flea Market and the dances have provided both learning and social dimensions to an otherwise totally classroom-oriented year.
For your efforts, and they are significant, my sincere appreciation.
Condemnations, and these I heap on myself, belong to the students and faculty and administration. How weary I grow of hearing from all these quarters, “Nothing ever happens here,” for when something does happen, participation from all these groups is limited to a few.
It seems to me that, as a campus, we tend to lose sight of what being “educated” actually means. Certainly, an education means far more than the attainment of a piece of paper. The sensitivity to “all” the world — sensitivity developed as the diploma is attained and which continues long after the classroom exposure has come to an end — is the essential ingredient to an “education.”
Admittedly, we all have obligations — work, home and family — but there is no doubt that our time could be better spent listening to Jack Anderson, an internationally known journalist than in the snack bar or the pool room; and our money could be invested more wisely ($1 for Anderson’s appearance, for example) than saying, “I can’t afford it,” while we light another cigarette as we walk away from the soft drink machine.
Think about it. After all, it’s only your future and your ability to function in the world that is at stake.
Jane Bouterse
Vacation Changes
Dear Editor,
Do you have anything planned for the spring vacation scheduled for March 3-7? After two consecutive years of change in spring vacation dates, it is strongly rumored that once again spring holidays are the subject of the game of musical chairs. Why?
As yet no official announcement has been made; however, if the rumor is true, this change once again interferes with previously arranged tennis matches as well as other planned activities.
How does it come about that the dates must be changed each year, and who takes the initiative to request a change in these dates?
Robert Mills