2008 Woodie Awards
What changes will be waiting for us next fall?
Editorial
Issue date: 5/9/08 Section: Opinion
Every fall semester for the past few years there have been major changes awaiting the returning classes. One year Burlingham replaced the old houses on University Ave. and this year Lincoln Park was transformed into a completely new, unrecognizable facility to those of us who knew the old park.
But with change, comes questions. Are all of these changes beneficial?
All of these new buildings do take away from the smaller feeling of the school. It appears sometimes that our hidden, out-of-the-way campus is growing into a small metropolis.
However, when we all leave this place with our degrees, they will be much more valuable than the ones that seniors that were here before us earned.
More growth means more professors, more academic opportunities and a campus that is more well-known nationally than ever before.
More growth also could mean larger classes, less faces you recognize as you walk through campus and a loss of that special feeling that admissions always claims that Pacific has.
So what's the verdict?
The fact of the matter is there's nothing we can do to change the direction in which the university is going. We might as well accept that the good outweighs the bad.
It makes our minds spin to think that in fifteen years, if all goes according to the Strategic Plan, Pacific will have taken over Forest Grove. It's likely when you bring your kids back for some alumni event, this campus won't feel like the one you are attending in many ways.
There will be a new UC, Clark Hall won't exist, neither will Walter and hopefully Scott Hall will finally have its fate decided.
Nonetheless, this is, and will still be, Pacific University.
Now you have to ask yourself: will it be a better Pacific when it's all said and done, or will the years we spent here be the last few years where Pacific has kept its individuality?
But with change, comes questions. Are all of these changes beneficial?
All of these new buildings do take away from the smaller feeling of the school. It appears sometimes that our hidden, out-of-the-way campus is growing into a small metropolis.
However, when we all leave this place with our degrees, they will be much more valuable than the ones that seniors that were here before us earned.
More growth means more professors, more academic opportunities and a campus that is more well-known nationally than ever before.
More growth also could mean larger classes, less faces you recognize as you walk through campus and a loss of that special feeling that admissions always claims that Pacific has.
So what's the verdict?
The fact of the matter is there's nothing we can do to change the direction in which the university is going. We might as well accept that the good outweighs the bad.
It makes our minds spin to think that in fifteen years, if all goes according to the Strategic Plan, Pacific will have taken over Forest Grove. It's likely when you bring your kids back for some alumni event, this campus won't feel like the one you are attending in many ways.
There will be a new UC, Clark Hall won't exist, neither will Walter and hopefully Scott Hall will finally have its fate decided.
Nonetheless, this is, and will still be, Pacific University.
Now you have to ask yourself: will it be a better Pacific when it's all said and done, or will the years we spent here be the last few years where Pacific has kept its individuality?
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