CoEd Dormitories
When I visited Berry College, one of the first things that I learned was MarthaBerry's mission for her students - to educate the head, the heart, and the hands. The lady in the admissions office who welcomed us to Berry beamed as she told me how almost a hundred years later this mission is still the driving force behind Berry College. What a wonderful place to be, I thought to myself. A place where I will grow mentally, spiritually, and physically. Now that I am approaching the end of my freshman year, I am able to reflect on all that I have learned, as a result of Martha Berry's original purpose for the school. I was recently disturbed, however, to discover that the ideals which Berry College was founded upon have been challenged with the proposal for building a new co-ed dorm on campus, for cost efficient reasons. The decision to erect a co-ed dorm would be detrimental to the Berry community because it will hinder Berry's mission to educate the head, the heart, and the hands, of their students thus creating problems that would far outweigh the financial convenience. The head is where our brain is located. Our brain is the organ which allows us to think. We have the choice to think good things or bad
and people who are good examples to us. Berry does an excellent job of giving their founded on Christian principles which are still taught, students of this faith are drawn to heart, and the hands. According to Berry's mission creating mental sexual temptations, as guys I would most likely give in the to the temptation of hanging out with guys too much, where our morals and beliefs lie. While Berry College accepts a variety of views and
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