The Highacres collegian. (Hazleton, PA) 1956-????, October 29, 1973, Image 6

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    PAGE 6 - HIGHACRES COLLEGIAN, OCTOBER 29, 1973
Belles-Lettres
elects officers
The Belles -Lettres Society
is once again active this year.
Officers for the Society are:
Dale Walck, President; Linda
Gallagher, Vice-President;
Deborah Berger, Secretary-
Treasurer; and John Busher,
Public Relations. The Officers
look-forward to a fruitful and
prosperous year.
The objectives of the
Society are as follows:
1. To promote fellowship
among students and
faculty.
2. To stimulate the love
of literature and the
allied arts.
3. To maintain an esuirit
dg corns among English
majors and all students
4. To encourage a wider
reading. of the world's
literature.
5. To encourage a deeper
study of the history
of cultural movements.
6. To improve scholarship
by mutual aid and en
couragement.
7. To sponsor projects
serving to enrich the
cultural life of our
campus, the university
and the community.
Professor Kafka, the Society
advisor, and the officers hope
to meet these objectives in the
school year to come.
Upcoming activities in
clude: the annual high school
reading festival, the annual
Highacres reading festival
(both of which are held in the
Spmlng Term) and several field
trips which will take place in
the coming months.
The President and his
officers have extended a cor
dial invitation for anyone
wishing to join the Society.
Those interested are asked to
see the President, any officer
of the organization, or Pro
fessor Kafka, regarding any
further questions which might
arise. The President also
expressed a wish to see many
of the students on campus join
and give their support to this
organization in one way or
left many of us unconvinced - -the
backlash. We are as disillusioned
and genuinely confused as children
who cannot tell steam from smoke.
We cannot effectively distinguish
dissent from disloyalty,
individual rights from civil
rights, freedom from discip
line, and responsibilities
from power, just to name a few,„
Today many Americans can
be intimidated by those who
ask Chico Marx's question:
"Who you gonna believe, me or
your own eyes?" The Watergate
quagmire, occasional relapses
in the Supreme Courtis decis
ions, and economic chaos are
testimony to American self -
deception. In these areas•of
social and civil responsibil-
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ADULTHOOD
continued from page three
ities, young adults Must bloom.
Young adults are not the
naive set of zeros that the
older constituents imagine.
The 26th amendment hopes to
institutionalize that.
At what velocity this imagin
ation can vanish from our his-
tory depends on every
one of us. Young people should
realize that educators assume
tremendous responsibilities in
these social revolutions.
They bloom anew every day.
True learning is the fundament
al requirement for young
adults. Genuine learning is
concerned with the unfamiliar,
the "irrelevant" made compre
hensible.
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