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Colleges Urged to Make
Room for the Human
Waverly, la.- (1.P.)-Change is
imperative in a liberal arts
college in order to make
"room for the human."
(That was the thesis of Dr.
Lloyd J. Averill, president of
the Kansas City Regional
Council for Higher Education,
who spoke at the inauguration
ceremony for Dr. William W.
Jellema, the 12th president of
Wartburg College.)
"Openess to change is
essential in order to guard
against those institutional
rigidities which force the
human into alien shapes and
thus diminish womanhood and
manhood," Dr. Averill said.
"Any education which will be
usefull to the future of our
students had better come to
terms with the fact that the
world is moving."
He said that without
flexibility teachers and ad
ministrators lose their own
attention and that when that
happens it's unlikely they will
succeed in holding their
students' attention.
Too often. Dr. Averill went
on, college people have been
short on vision, building
curricula on basis of compro
mise with institutional special
interests. "The truth is that
the statement of graduation
requirements works as a very
powerful symbol among us. It
is consulted far more often
that the statement of
institutional purpose."
The "Madison Avenue
Madness" award of the year
must go to those makers of all
sorts of things that make our
lives just a little more of what
they already are - The
Rockwell people.
"SPREAD JOY" was the
wonderfully simple, blocked
lettered headline on one of
He said that colleges must
find more authentically human
terms in which to state what is
expected of students and more
authentically human measures
by which to judge their
achievements. Colleges also
must find ways to break out of
the human limitations which
confine every academic com
munity, he said.
"A liberal arts college
ought to make students anc"
teachers uncomfortable with
their respective provincialisms
and ought to be thrusting
them into new worlds of
cultural learning. To be
liberally educated is to have
access to a wide range of
human values and achieve
ments and to appreciate the
similarities and differences
which both enrich and
complicate the human condi
tion."
In the past. Dr. Averill said,
colleges too often have
encouraged, "the separation
of learning from doing,"
being too:autious about adding
practical skills and exper
iences to the historical and
theoretical. Finally, he said
colleges must find ways to
respect what students have
achieved away from school
and the diversities which they
bring to campus.
"We have acted as if
students had no ideas or
excellence or questions of
their own. So our temptation is
Spreading Joy?
their grabber Christmas
advertisements. Reading on.
we find that thcßockwcll
Cordless Yard and Gardnet
Sprayer is just what we've all
been looking for to spread joy.
Besides spreading joy. we can
spread our very own insecti
cides, herbicides, fertilizers,
synthesizers, deodorizers, and
disinfectants around the home
The Guilfordian
to supply both the approved
questions and the carefully
keyed answers and to expect
that the good student will
conform himself to them. The
truth is that students who do
have questions of their own
and some have found at least
temporarily useful answers
which deserve to be tested
rather than ignored.
"The humanism which we
profess ought to make us
profoundly uneasy about
standardizations throughout
the college. In some places
liberal education is the
process whereby everybody is
dragged through the same
knot-hole, regardless of indi
vidual human shapes, appar
ently on the conviction that it's
going to be good for them,
even if it kills them.
"The problem is not so
much how we can induce
change and growth in our
students, since that seems to
be their natural bent; rather
the problem is how to keep
from inhibiting growth by
institutional arrangements
which restrict or penalize it."
Dr. Averill concludes: "We
must recover the human
dimension of teaching. Teach
ers must be present as
persons and not merely as
professionals. Students are
unlikely to achieve the growth
of a larger self out of peer
relationships alone."
"with fingertip control." Now
we can even "practice on
indoor plants until the weather
breaks."
Overlooked by Rockwell,
but possibly even better, is the
prospect of spreading cancer,
tumors, birth defects, still
births, and other questionable
"joys" among the family,
friends, and loved ones.
Two Scoops of
(CPS)-At one time ice cream
was the most nutritious treat
one could buy. Today,
however, the frigid treat is
artifically flavored, colored
and preserved with chemicals
of dubious origin.
If your favorit flavor is
vanilla chances are good old
vanilla extract has been
replaced by piperonal. A
benzine derivative piperonal is
a strong smelling substance
commonly used by extermina
tors in the control of lice.
Another substitute in the
dessert is benzyl acetate, used
rather than real strawberries.
This compound is a nitrate
solvent which was employed
in the motion picture industry
(back in the days of nitrate
film) as an ingredient for the
cement applied in film
splicing.
Instead of eggs, ice cream
factories emulsify the batter
with diethyl glucol. The same
material is found in anti-freeze
and various brands of paint
remover.
Artificial cherry coloring,
correctly termed aldehyde CI 7
is an inflammable liquid
incorporated in aniline dyes,
plastics and resins. Aldehyde
is an alcohol derivative of
Strip Mining from Page 6
One mountaineer, John
Prine, has expressed the
anguish 'suffered by the
mountain people. In his song
"Paradise" he relates the
destruction of a part of
western Kentucky by the
Peabody Coal Company.
"When 1 was a child, my
family would travel - Down to
western Kentucky where my
parents was born And there's
a backwards old town that's
often remembered - So many
times that my mem'ries are
worn - And Daddy, won't you
take me back to Muhlenburg
County - Down by the Green
River where Paradise lay -
Well, I'm sorry, my son. but
you're too late in asking -
Mister Peabody's coal train
done hauled it away.
Well sometimes we'd travel
right down the Green River -
Jlltl^ifr- \J:^&t&im
March 25. 1975
Benzyl Acetate
hydrogen.
Ethyl acetate, commonly
wrongly referred to as
"pineapple," is used to clean
leather and texties.
Though no direct connection
has been proven, workers in
these two industries do have a
higher than usual incidence of
heart lung and liver disorders.
Like all other processed
food manufacturers, the ice
cream man has had to find
ways to cut costs to cope with
rampant inflation.
Chemicals are simply
cheaper than natural ingre
dients. It is also economically
advantageous to embalm
products with preservatives to
increase their shelf life.
None of these synthetics
have been proven directly
harmful, yet few have been
proven totally harmless either.
Many of the substitutes,
preservatives and additives
found in processed foods have
not been scientifially tested by
government agencies.
So next time you order at
your favorite "ice cream"
parlor, use proper phraseol
ogy and say, "Two ethyl
acetates and a piperonal
please!"
To the abandoned old prison
down by Adrie Hill - Where
the air smelled like snakes -
and we'd shoot with our
pistols - But empty pop bottles
was all we would kill - Then
the coal company came with
the world's largest shovel -
And they tortured the timber
and stripped all the land -
Well, they dug for their coal
till the land was forsaken -
Then they wrote it all down as
the progress of man - And
Daddy, won't you take me
back to Muhlenburg County -
Down by the Green River
where Paradise lay - Well, I'm
sorry, my son, but you're too
late in asking - Mister
Peabody's coal train done
hauled it away."
John Prine. Copywright 1971
by Cotillion Music, Incorpo
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