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Salient: An organ of student opinion at Victoria University, Wellington. Vol. 23, No. 3. Monday, April 11, 1960

Desire To Serve

Desire To Serve

Love for God means love for fellow students as creatures of God, and hence desire to serve fellow students. Please note that love isn't meant in the barn-yard sense. This love, with a restricted meaning in relation to such modern men of letters as Carter Brown, leads the student to wanting to influence the mind of his fellow students as well as secure amenities for them. Such a student sees his fellow students as blinded to reality, suffering from a spiritual tragedy which occurred very early in the history of mankind.

A rather smaller section of the University population believes in ideas, though they're not quite sure why. They want the status associated with influencing other people's opinions. These people can generally be found in the thick of student journalism religious and political societies current affairs and debating clubs.

They have an importance in student affairs out of all proportion to their numbers but it is quite well earned.

These people assume very special significance when we consider that the majority of the future's decisionmakers will get their training and their basic pattern of attitudes from the University.