Thursday, September 22, 1949
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
his life as he sees fit. He can tion that he seeks, and learn to
conform to the conventional pat- make the kind of life that he de-
terns of campus Jewish life, or
sires for himself.
he can strike out on a broader
scale.
He will meet anti-Semitism,
manifested in subtle ways—he
will be refused admission to a
fraternity, he will be told at a
rooming house,"Sorry, no Jews
allowed"; he may find profane
remarks about himself scribbled
on the statue of a great American
' liberator; but if he is equipped
to cope with the realities of the
world in which he lives, he will
not be unduly disturbed.
find the kind of educa-
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someone unique, whether he be
Jewish, Gentile, black or white.
The Jewish student on this
campus will find very few doors'
dosed to him, in the field of ex-
tra-curricular activity.
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He may become editor of the
daily newspaper, president of the
_ theater group, chairman of one
of the numerous political organi-
zations, or of a university-spon-
sored committee, or president of
the student government—all of
which has happened in the last
two years on this campus.
L'SHONO TOVO
• • •
CHOOSES OWN WORK
HE IS FREE to choose his ac-
tivity and work at it to the best
of his ability, with the knowledge
that if he proves himself, he will
not be denied an important posi-
tion because he happens to be
a Jew.
Such a type person on the
whole emerges from his partici-
pating experience as a well-
rounded individual, with a broad
field of interest and contact which
will serve him to great advan-
tage when he leaves the univers-
ity atmosphere.
TI KOSEVU
LITTLE RELIGIOUS INTEREST
ANY ANALYSIS of the life of
the Jewish student on a mid-
western campus would not be
complete without some mention
of the part that religions or
specifically "J e w is h" activity
plays in it.
Organized religion, per se.
holds little interest for the major-
ity of students, Jewish or Gen-
tile, "collegiate" or intellectual.
The student religious groups
have thus far failed to provide
an attraction for the members of
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a desire to assimilate or reject
their background. It is more at-
tributable to the fact that they
have not known the "positive"
aspects of being Jewish, and
facilities for teaching this are at
a minimum, once the college level
has been attained.
Recognition and respect in the
Jewish community and in the
campus community as a whole,
comes not from active participa-
tion in Jewish affairs, but rather,
On the campus we have been from a broader, more generalized
discussing, Hillel has played an participation in the affairs of the
unfortunately minor role. Its larger community.
• • •
High Holiday services are crowd-
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ed beyond capacity.
ON THE WHOLE, the Jewish
Other than this once-a-year
function, it has been a losing bat- student on the mid-western cam-
tle to attract more than a small pus is relatively free to make
handful of students to take part
in the yearly activity. This is in
some measure due to the high
caliber of campus activity, and
to the almogt unlimited oppor-
tunities for expression in the gen-
eral campus community.
Those students who had Jewish
or Zionist interest before their
arrival on the campus generally
continue it. Very few who did
not have a positive Jewish back-
ground in their pre-college days
attain interest or participation
once they are on the campus.
This is not due, necessarily, to
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their denominations on the cam-
pus. The Hillel foundations have
probably been most successful in
this field, when compared to the
He will be equipped to cope other religious groups.
with the "outside world" to a
In the first place, the Hillel
much greater degree than his foundation fulfills more than a
fellow student who spends his merely "religious" need. It con-
four years isolated from the ac- ducts manifold activities to en-
tivity around him, and from the courage interest in things Jewish,
numerous differences in the peo- as well as to supply an outlet for
pe he has failed to meet and those who already have such in-
terest.
know.
Such a person is not a "ghetto-
ized" Jewish student, though he
may live with, and have his prim-
ary social contacts with the type
mentioned earlier.
Academically, the Jewish stu-
dent faces few problems that his
Gentile co-student is not required
to meet.
A Jewish student may feel that
he is being discriminated against
if he receives what he feels to be
an unwarrantedly low grade, but
upon investigation, it has usually
been found that this is hyper-
sensitivity on the part of the
student.
Mainly in the field of graduate
work, and especially in the pro-
fessional schools, is there cause
for alarm and discouragement on
the part of the Jewish student.
It is common knowledge that-
it is very difficult for a Jew to get
into a medical school, regardless
of his undergraduate record.
On the surface then, the Jew-
ish student leads a life similar
in most respects to that of the
non-Jew. The difference lies only
in the fact that his life, like that
of the Gentile, is self-contained.
It seldom reaches out to include
members of other groups.
It is, for the purposes of the
average student, self-sufficient
and self-sustaining. The few who
rebel against the narrowness that
this kind of living implies, are
free to create a different sort of
life for themselves, without the
fetters of "group consciousness. •
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