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Yvette Denise Odell Susan Robin Oro ian Music English/Elementary Education People see us as symbols of a new humanity - if we are truly free. This what I have learned from WMC in a nutshell. We come to college with hope of being different by the time we leave, but the process of change is frightening. Sometimes we are more afraid of what our new person might mean, in relationship to others, than of what bondage to our old selves means. It is so easy to slip into neat niches - like ECON MAJOR or SORORITY SISTER - and grow only so far as these roles can expand. We may think we are being different from the rest of the middle-class society by doing "new things" but is the process really different, are we meeting the liberal arts ideal of the universal person? I think we can. But we must be wary of easy self-assurance that we are "together"; we must be wary of professors professing to have THE truth; we must be wary of administrators administering blindly. Then we have a ray of hope to work with. Far from bing pessimistic, I believe the potential for greatness is within every student, professor, and administrator's reach at WMC. We must push each other into being respectors of truth, honesty, and human decency ... D. Toni Orosz Social Work 266