Student Publication Designed to "Bridge the Gap" Undergraduate liberal arts science majors are ins. position to promote mutual understanding of science and the humanities. In many collegea science students deem it their responsibility to "create, on a student level, a well-informed populace in an area. where it is very much needed." Skill in effective expression is needed if the college science student is to share his knowledge with non-scientists. Most science and mathematics majors, however, find that their undergraduate training provides too few opportunities to develop this skill because of the quantitative and objective nature of their specializations. Instruments of communication between the science student and his colleagues are to be found in seminar papers, regional science conferences, and varieties of science bulletins. These provide means of communication between scientists. There is needed also a channel through whioh students may transmit an understanding of their scientific pursuits to their "noniieientific" acquaintances. Out of this need has evolved, in more than a few liberal arts colleges, quarterly publications dedicated to the dissemination of scientific information on s. general collegiate level. Students of the departments of science and mathematics of Saint Joseph College published the first issue of Search in the fall of 1964, with the hope that it will open broader horizons to both its readers and its staff. Search ia circulated to the entire faculty and the student body, to alumnae, to several hundred other liberalarts colleges, and to interested friends and educators. An NSF Institutional Grant gives financial support. Readers involved in similar projects are invited to establish exchanges. SISTERDENISEEBY SAINTJ o s ~ COLLEGE ~n EMMITsBURG,MARYLAND
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