To the Optimist staff, I want to commend the staff of the Optimist on the quality publication you're giving the readers on our ACC campus. It seems to me that the '61 Optimist has a policy of broad coverage, clear concise reporting, and yet offers opportunity for the reflection of opinion through the editorial page. Too frequently the ideal ... [Read More…]

The American College Man is slowly falling into the lowest dregs of intellectuality. Granting of course that there is so much more to assimilate than ever before in the history of man the fact still remains that one almost needs a Ph.D. to brush his teeth correctly. Times used to be so that all one needed to be totally superior was a B.S. I ... [Read More…]

May 17, 1957 The other day, as I listened to a local radio station, I heard a song entitled "School Dats." A better title might have been "Reform School Daze." This little rock-'n-roll ditty paints school as drudgery from the time the candidate for the "Blackboard Jungle" gets up in the morning until the time he "lays down his burden" when ... [Read More…]