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Susan Speed Tuley Tracy Kay Tuttle Physical Education Physical Education A WMC professor once told me that a liberal arts education meant developing a good crap-detector. It is an important achieve- ment to understand the origins of different schools of thought and the motivations that lead people (especially professors) to say what they say. Learn to look behind the prepared statement and to read between the lines of a publication and ask this question: is it humanistically oriented? If it does not help people in society to become more fully human then it does not agree with the goals espoused at WMC nor with the proper aim of all education. That brings up another question. Why do you do the things you do? Do you have an ultimate purpose in your life, something greater than yourself, something that will stay with you in spirit when everything around you is in a state of flux? Is the job you are doing or are the courses you are studying not a part of "the solution" and therefore part of "the problem"? ... Amy Karn Turner Social Work 283