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Show Undoubtedly, the most important aspect of college life is the academic phase. In it are encompassed all of the problems and struggles of the University. Its component parts are the Adminisfration and the Student Body. The Administration is faced with the problem of how to present the best in modern education to the students, and the students are faced with the problem of how to make the most of the opportunities which are afforded them.The Administration's task is to prepare each collegiate, not only for his chosen profession, but also to face the problems life may thrust in his path. Responsible for the extra-curricular education of the students as well as that obtained in the classroom, the administration's decisions range from the hiring of instructors to the approving of the social activities of the student groups.At the head of Utah's administrational structure is president A. Ray Olpin, and helping to coordinate the campus life are his assistants: the academic and business vice presidents, assistant to the president, dean of Students, and the deans of Men and Women. This staff of experts handles the daily crises that arise, and act as a liason between the president's office and the students. The Board of Regents, which meets monthly, forms the policies which govern the campus community.The other component of the academic phase, that which causes most of the Administration's problems, and which is the reason for its existence, lies in the 11,000 perplexed young men and women known as students. This mass of humanity - ranging from the openly confused and bewildered Freshman, as he attempts to register for the first time, to the sophisticated Sophomore, who has the world by the tail, and one whole year of college behind him, to the slightly-less-sure-of-himself Junior, who begins to doubt whether he does know all that there is to know, and finally to the openly confused and bewildered Senior as he attempts to pass comps and prepare to go out into the world - this is the Administration's charge.From Freshman to Senior, from confusion to wisdom go the students. The faces change, but the classes stay the same and so, it seems, do the professors, and knowledge is still the thing students seek.ACADEMICS12 |
