Student activities usually refer to glee clubs, athletics, homecoming dances, student government, and campus elections. Today, increasingly, it means agitating for the end of hostilities in Vietnam, greater emphasis on education, research programmes, housing and bursary problems, and a host of other concerns.

Most of all, it seems to mean a drive by students for a new kind of responsibility for and participation in adult society.

When this drive takes the form of mass protests and teach-ins, on or off campus, it makes the newspapers and television. Meanwhile here is a quieter, greater need. A need that can directly be met through the initiative and concern of many university students.

Tutorial and activity programmes for culturally deprived children; for the gifted and creative child; for the many "exceptional" children, both at home and in institutions, that is, intellectually handicapped children, blind, deaf, cerebral palsied, maladjusted, problem children, etc. There are many such needs that are going begging for someone interested to organise small groups and spend some carefully thought-out hours with these children and these issues. The supervision of the student novices is available through the university staff and a variety of governmental and private agencies. But first, the problem must be identified for what it is.