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Yula Ponticas Wendy Louella Powell Psychology Social Work ... If you come to college with your defenses up to anything new and controversial, so that you can duck when the punches of stress and questioning come your way, then you are the loser. We must act decisively to reach out and grasp freedom. Not a freedom to do our "own thing" recklessly, but rather, a freedom to be seekers of a better world. If we are honest, the truth may reveal some shocking things, as it has for me. It may reveal that our culture, our wealth, and our minds have imprisoned us in ways in which we are not aware. The keys to all those locks are here - if we want them. We need to take a large number of courses outside our major, willingly. We need to order and reorder our priporities and goals. Speak out when we feel something is wrong. No professor, no staffer, and no student is above constructive criticism. We are here to learn how to build bridges. The most important bridge to build is within ourselves; there must be integrity between what we do and say and who we are. Building bridges must become our priority. With bridges there is not one person or thing that we cannot reach. - Cheryl Jane Walter Richard Kirby Powell Economics 270