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Shared experiences promise freedom And with the talking, listening? by Dean Ira Zepp. dean of the chapel If people can talk to each other,. there is still a another, because for too long we nad talked to or chance. Young couples, who otherwise deem to passed one another. be quite compatible, often find their marriage on We began by giving brief autobiographical very rocky ground. What they sometimes accounts of our lives, small glimpses into our discover is that they just cannot talk with each histories, what made us tick as human beings other. (~here we wer~ coming from, as theysay). We A human relationship fundamentally rests on simply cal) never relate the same to a person and is sustained by the capacity of people to talk. who has been willing to share sincerely some of Talking, like sex, is an expression of a his depths with us. We are not as apt to knock relationship, a powerful symbol of how we are .him, put him down, nor feel alienated from him. getting on with each other, a significant clue to We celebrated our efforts at honest dialogue by a the meaning of what transpires between two day together at River City. Major DouglasB.Shoemaker's artistic talents are on people. Our hope was that our talking with one another- display in the first floor of the library. MajorShoe- Being able to talk with a person-and I mean all might be a microcosm of what could take place kinds of talk, big talk, little talk, top-of-the-head on a larger scale on the Hill and in our world, It maker is part ef the ROTC department at WMC. talk, bottom-of-the-heart talk, whatever is on our might be worthwhile to try the experiment mind at the moment-reveals the freedom shared again. by two people. There is still a chance if radicals can talk with The freer we feel with people, the more we can each other, if conservatives and liberals remain talk with them, thus sharing who we are. And the on. speaking terms, if parents can maintain Local education more we share, the more we know about each other. The more we know about each other, the ..~:~~~l c~~m~~n:i~~ios~ud~~ts,~ri~~~~l~~~~~ ~~ more we can understand and love in the other. willing to dialogue with Peking, if husbands and The more we love one another, the freer we are wives keep talking, if roommates share their to be who we are. It is a gloriously liberating lives, if prison officials continue to. talk with needs sighted cycle. inmates and police with hippies. Last Spring, a small group of students As long as words are being spoken between us, representing different viewpoints and several the possibility of a relationship exists, if not its aspects of campus life, met on a regular basis. actual creation and expression. We decided to meet precisely to talk to one And with the talking, listening ... Six members of the Carroll county business- industry community have agreed to serve on an advisory Program Planning Committee at Western Maryland College, as part of the college's new focus on regional educational needs Community advisory group members invited by President Lowell S. Ensor are: Joseph H. Beaver, Jr., executive vice president, Union National Bank; Lawrence E. Emge, manager of employment and training, Black and Decker; Russell H. Morgan. vice president and general manager. WTTR; Louis B. Scharcn, owner of Scharcn's Black Eagle and chairman of the board of education; Dr. George E. Thomas, superintendent of schools; and E. B. Wright, general manager of the industrial equipment division, Westinghouse. F. Kale Mathias, a Westminster businessman and a member of the college's board of trustees, is chairman of the group. Establishment of this advisory group is one result of the college's current study of its total development involving detailed long range plans for the future. One important aspect of this study is the role of the college in meeting regional educational needs. A faculty subcommittee if the Long Range Planning Committee included among its recommendations that there be a permanent faculty committee to study this and that a community advisory committee be invited to work with it. A number of community representatives met with the original subcommittee at a meeting during the past school year. At that time the idea Ensor states college philosophies to open more of the college course offerings, on both a credit and non-credit basis, to members of the community was presented. Advisory group ghettos, etc. It is in these areas, he pointed out, members were among those who showed par- President Lowell "S. Ensor called for a generation gap where the generation gap must take place. ticular interest. Others will be invited to join in his opening convocation remarks, Wednesday,Sep . The president began his talk to the incoming them later. tember 15, at the college. and returning students and faculty members by It has been pointed out that this proposed reading the new philosophy and objectives of program does not mean new course offerings. Dr. Ensor said that a generation gap is a good "western Maryland College which were Interested persons will be offered courses thing because if "one generation is not at odds developed as part of a current long range plan already in the regular college schedule and will with those who have gone before it, the world bein~,. prepared by trustees, faculty, ad- register only after the college has ac- moves backwards." The president of the liberal ministration, and students. He referred to commodated its regular student enrollment. arts college opening its l05th year said that various statements from these two papers while Persons accepted for admission in this program students should build upon what former discussing three problems facing the students: 1. will have to be qualified students. Registration is generations have done. And, if necessary, he identity crisis; 2. generation crisis; and 3. being handled through the college's regular advocated being at odds with previous governance crisis. adm issions office. generations. President Ensor also has appointed the per- He said this, he added, because without one Dr. Ensor said that most students entering manent faculty committee which the advisory generation striving to improve on what previous college today are asking, "Who am I?," much in 'committee will assist. They are: Dr. L. Stanley generations have done "the armies will continue the way the college was asking what it wants to Bowlsbey, Jr., chairman of the education . to clash in the night." Dr. Ensor had previously be when it started the long range plan study. But, department; Dr. Lowell R. Duren, assistant quoted from Mathew Arnold's "Dover Beach" he told the students, identity is not just finding professor of mathematics; Dr. L. Earl Griswold, when referring to the generation crisis and oneself. He quoted Kierkegaard. "Choose chairman of the sociology department; Dr. John pessimism. yourself rather than know yourself," to indicate D. Makosky, dean of the faculty; Dr. Ralph B. There is a monster> the president said, created that the identity crisis involves choice on the part Price, chairman of the economics department. by those who have gone before this student of students. Only the students can choose Dr. Isabel Royer, professor of biology, is generation. He said he would not elaborate since whether his college education will or will not chairman of the committee. Registrar Cora V all know about the problems of ecology, poverty, (continued on page six) Perry is a consultant.