If you're anything like us, you might enjoy taking a dive into the archives from time to time. And what better time than the end of the year to see what the past might have to tell us? 

This December, as we are all heading into another pandemic holiday season, our hopes and ideas for a new year might feel...a little less sparkly. Here on campus many of us are wondering what the new year holds for IU Southeast. To reflect on the future, let's take a look at the past. An article in the December 15, 1971 edition of The Horizon might just offer a little bit of hope. 

The 1970s was a period of huge change for IU Southeast. During plans and progress for the campus' move from Warder Park to its current Grant Line Road location, an anonymous letter was published in December 1971 that questioned the future of campus - but it also reminded us of our capacity to shape that future. In it, the author writes:

"Let every interested part of our community state with some precision its vision of what it wants IUS realistically to become. Let us then reconcile as best we can the conflicting aspects of these hopes, form a plan for now and tomorrow, and invite support for our aims. Only by setting reasonable, fairly specific high goals for ourselves will we define the essence of IUS."

This 1971 article doesn't just serve as a snapshot in time. Perhaps this article also serves as a bit of inspiration for the challenges facing us today. At the very least, maybe it offers some solace in knowing that difficult times don't last forever. 

You can read the entire article below: