SC Students Stage 'Clean-In' newspaper article from April 11, 1969

Springfield Union · April 11, 1969

This newspaper article is titled SC Students Stage 'Clean-In' newspaper article published on April 11, 1969 by the Springfield Union newspaper. The article was written by staff writer, Peter Goodman. The article describes a "spring cleaning" the students of Springfield College initiated. The students "cleaned" the dean out of his office in the administration building and wiped down police windows, dome lights, and badges to raise money for the college's capital fund campaign. The news article explains how Art Linkletter gave a benefit show to support the Work week Campaign. There are four images on the newspaper of the event. Community service has always been incorporated into the Springfield College campus community. Work Week was a precursor to Humanics-in-Action Day, which takes place every fall at Springfield College and reflects the school’s long tradition of community service. Humanics has a special meaning in the history and philosophy of Springfield College. The Oxford English Dictionary defines Humanics as, “the subject or study of human affairs or relations, especially of the human element of a problem or situation as opposed to the mechanical.” Springfield College initiated Humanics in Action Day in September 1998. It was the idea of Springfield Professor of Humanics Peter Polito and leaders of the New Student Orientation program to revive and expand an event described in the 1918 Springfield College yearbook. In the early years of the college, students volunteered and worked together to provide service to the neighboring communities. During the annual event, students, faculty, staff, and alumni perform a day of community service throughout the city of Springfield. Materials contained within this scrapbook were removed from the original physical scrapbook due to preservation issues. Most documents were originally glued to the pages of the scrapbook, but the glue was failing and the documents were becoming loose and were falling out of the scrapbook. Documents may already have lost their original order and/or may have been lost due to this damage. The damage was getting worse with every use. Therefore, to protect the documents and to facilitate use of the documents, the documents were remove. The documents were left in the order that they were found at the time of removal.