Now is really not the time to press the panic button. Ignore the fact that the world around you at Missouri Western State University is changing form everyday. Deans come and go. Heads of offices and projects fade into the dying of the light. The sunsets on one face of this university wears and a lot of people began to worry about the coming night and the difference a new dawn brings.  All sense says there really is no cause for worry. Things change and usually for the better. Worrying is an enormous waste of energy.  Every one told Leif Erikson that he would sail off the edge of the earth one day in his push to explore the boundaries of the seas. It was because they didn’t understand that the earth operated under different rules than what they had previously known. Most people worry about what we donít know because we donít know any better.  Perhaps it is just human instinct to fear the unknown. There is a term in science fiction called ìarachnid reactionî which sums up the involuntary creepy feelings that one gets when in the presence of something so alien to our biological make up like a spider or an insect.  But as thinking creatures there is a responsibility to move past the fears we may have about the unknown and move on to the new horizons of tomorrow. Very few good things come out of fear. According to ancient JEDI wisdom; Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hatred, hatred leads to suffering. Thus the path to the dark side.  Donít fall to the dark side.  When presented with the possibility of the unknown, one can always use this wonderful built in tool called imagination to see the possibilities of change bringing a better world, a better tomorrow than the one we had a day before.  Imagine that this institution is becoming better than the one that you complained about yesterday. Imagine that the new staff and administration of M.W.S.U. will shape into the university that you wouldnít have any complaints about on any given day.  We always wax poetic about the good old days. Even when the good old days are were not particularly good. Yesterday we know like an old friend, but tomorrow we hold as a hostile stranger and that just canít be afforded anymore. This school is changing. This town is changing, This world is changing. Everyday there is change.   In the Hitchhikerís Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, it says that written on the covers of that same book is the words ìDonít Panic!î These are powerful words for the coming days and changes that approach us all. Panic rarely serves any productive propose, it usually only serves to hinder oneís goals. Panic induces poorly made decisions and rushed judgments. Might as well just hope for the best and maybe find that it did not turn out so bad after all.