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... Certainly, most of the responsibility rests on our shoulders. But the environment in which we make these crucial decisions is extremely important. We must be stimulated to think critically about ourselves and our environment to make decisions that will relate the two in a healthy way. WMC has been fertile ground for me in this respect. In the class room I have been encouraged to adopt and support opposing viewpoints to those supplied in texts and lectures. In the area of extra-curricular activities I have been encouraged not only to participate, but to formulate, manage and evaluate. I would not have had all these opportunities elsewhere. Western Maryland College, by adopting an active, dialogical style of education will always provide the potential for critical self-evaluation. The charge to students, professors and administrators is to insist that this potential is realized. If we accept anything less than total involvement in all areas of campus life by each of these groups we will rob ourselves of the capacity for personal and community growth. Let us accept the inevitability of change and use the environment we have created to explore its potential. - Rick Powell Susan Willis Biddlecomb French/Economics Wayne R. Birely Physical Education Patricia Ann Blades History 225