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Jitcrature eventually gets into the hands
of teen-agers and youngcr chil dren .
"There's no denying that the pres–
sures toward Joose conduct are strong,"
said Dcan Ernes t Gordon of the Univer–
sity Chape! at Princeton. "Ours is a
society drenched in sex
!"
Yet, thc scx and drug experimenta–
tion so openly advocated and practiced
in many college circles is decidedly
11ot
making people happy.
A
W iscoosin
psychiatrist recently described the grow–
ing problem of alienated students -
who talk about being "washed up" at
25, take drugs or smoke pot and seem
bored, apathetic and unhappy.
Dr. Seymour Halleck points out that
the alienated student is usually bright
and considered promising. So the "what's
thc point of it all" attitudc he
acquires
i11
co/lege
is disturbing to society and
particularly to his parents, who ask
themselvcs, "Whcre did we go wrong?"
CharacteristicaJiy, Dr. Halleck said,
the alienated student lives for the
present, with an
cmphtuis
on
immediate
,~?ratifica/ion
that gradually erodes "the
student's capacity to feel compassion, to
~ssume
responsibility, or to make com–
mitments." He describes the alienated
student as
1mce,·taiu
as to
"wbo he
is,
where
he
comes from.
and
where he
is
going."
The RESULT
What kind of educated barbarians is
society turning out?
Part of the answer is found in the
mass hysteria generated m colJege
disorders. The first five months of 1969
saw disorders on
more
than
200 co/lege
camp11ses,
r<.:sulting in
2,
300 arrests
and property damage of more than
$2.2
mili ion .
Many coll<.:ge presidents are rcsigning
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At top-name colleges and uni–
ve rs ities, student dissenters often
express dissatisfaction
by
dem–
onstrating and d isrupting cla sses.
in frustration over the problcm of
student rebell ion.
Dr. Buell Gallagher, President of the
City College of New York, announced
last May that he was quitting after weeks
of student disruptions that led to
arson and bloodshed. Earlier, Dr. Ray
Heffner c¡u it at Brown Univcrsity, say–
ing he did not "enjoy being a university
president."
Now understand why. Many univer–
sity officials are of the same opinion as
Harvard professor John Kcnncth Gal–
braith, "The function of a university is
to provide the best teaching, not to
act
as a moral watchdog."
Ruth Darli ng, Assistant Dean for