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...discussion groups would offer us this opportunity. Many of us have grown up in a certain political and social atmosphere and our minds have been limited by false prejudices, Direct contact, however, with new points of view through the medium of informal meetings would broaden our outlook and give our true natures the chance to reveal themselves...
This reveals a condition of things which we had hoped would never arise in an American university, namely, the carrying over of military distinction into academic life. The great rallying cry of the Allies has been, "Make the world safe for Democracy." Surely no more direct refutation of this basic principle of equality could be possible than in singling out certain war heroes to receive honor from their Alma Mater, and leaving others unhonored and unsung. It is not difficult to appreciate the feelings of the enlisted man who, after sacrificing his studies to serve his country, returns to find...
...Discussion Groups are designed to stimulate and direct the habit of accurate thinking in the student in regard to the pros and cons of current problems. Members of the groups are guided in the discussions by volunteers from the Faculty, who are well qualified to present the problems in their true forms, stripped of interested prejudice and popular fallacies. The large variety of national and international questions available for consideration assures an abundance of excellent subject matter. Not only will members of the groups increase their understanding of affairs of current discussion in the press, but they will derive benefit...
...cast his ballot. The non-voter in the outside world is being recognized more each day as an undesirable citizen and a liability to the community in which he lives. The status of the non-voter in the college is essentially the same. His lack of loyalty is a direct injury to the welfare of his class and also to himself. In the former case, a selfish apathy inhibits the mental effort necessary to the casting of an intelligent vote for the nominees of his class; in the latter he is forming a habit which will eventually depreciate...
...duties of the Regent are those of a University Officer exercising a general supervision over the conduct and welfare of the students, his particular duty being to direct the proctors who reside in University buildings or in buildings to which the superintendence of the University extends. The chief purposes of this office are to relieve the work of the Dean's Office and to endeavor to develop the office of proctor into one of closer relationship with those undergraduates with whom the proctor should come in contact...