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self and exalt man despite the situation he finds him- self in.

These two examples of eX+ istentiallifestyles bring‘ out some of the ideas of Viktor Frankl on mans' search for meaning. Frankl sees the search for mean- ing from an existential point of View. Man's ex- istence precedes the ess- ence he discovers, he is free and responsible for his actions. Frankl be— lieves that every man must find meaning in his life, while Sartre claims ‘we have to invent meaning ‘without guidance or just- ‘ifications.

Once meaning in life has been found, morality. then asserts itself. For Frankl, being truly moral is for the sake of one's ultimate ideal. Looking back at the examples of Kierkegaard and Camus, one can.see that this is quite valid. Kierkegaard found:meaning in God, and his principles arose from that belief, and transform— ed his view of morality. Thus morality is something that gets its impulse from the meaning one finds in life. Without a basis for mening there can be no mo- rality. '

Like the aquisition of moral values, the choice

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of social commitment us- ually rests on the mean- ing one finds in life. Having found meaning, every man examines his society and measures it against what he believes in. Should it violate or contradict his ideals, that man may decide to try to change his society and correct what is wrong with it. If he decides to take this step, he becomes

,socially committed. The

character of his ideals are crucial in determining what form his social comm- itment will take. Two ex— amples of socially commit- ted people are Karl Marx and Martin Luther King. Both Marx and King, though

they differ in most aspects

are men who have applied

their personal philosophies

to the social problems ar- ound them. In a previous paper I was

searching for "the most im— portant thing", and I ended

up with the concept of God. What I really did was to

conduct a somewhat simpli-g

fied search for meaning. Having found the basis for my philosophy of life, I now want to elaborate

on it a little.

_ The atheist existential—

ists Sartre and Camus say that there is no God and

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that the world is absurd

_just because man does not

fully understand it.

What they are doing is simply reducing the world to their level. Also the atheist existentialists are saying that the world can only make sense with- out God, take away God and everything becomes absurd.

It is for these reasons that I reject their ass- ertion that God does not exist and that the world is ultimately absurd.

The world may seem to be

iabsurd, but it is complet-

ely absurd only if one re- jects God. But for the re— jection of God. I am per— fectly willing to accept the existential View of man within the framework of a Christian belief in God. To me the condition of man on this earth can be compared with the view taken by Herbert Read:

In my metaphor, he is con- demned to be adrift, and he has to invent the ins— truments by means of which he can steer a cour— se: having invented

these instruments, he

has to set out on a voy- age of discovery...His life, his existence, is y the voyage: his reality is the fact that he is moving in a direction which he himself has freely deter— minedo

faltered!

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again the Panther dream has Beaten six to three by the Saint Mary's Huskies, rated number one

in the nation, the Panthers failed in

Favour.

their quest for league supremacy in regu-

lar season play. The game was marked with a multitude of Panther mistakes which the

Huskies were quick to capitalize on.

Perhaps goal tending made the difference but lack of puck control by the Panthers throughout the game thrawted many scor- ing opportunities. The Panther Offence showed plenty of hustle but lacked fin— ese around the Huskie net, shots on goai being thirty-eight to thirty—two in our The team seemed quite nervous for the "big game" but now that it's 'OVer our mistakes can be corrected and

a better showing is expected in the future. He knew we can outskate, outshoot, and outhustle Saint Mary's; next time we will outscore them too!