Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery - Dental Columbian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Underlying most of the events cited above is the increasing amount of violence in our society and our reaction to or attempts to escape from it. Violence has been compared to a fever in the body politic; it is but a symptom of some more basic pathology which must be cured before the fever will disappear. The primary etiologic fac- tors of the disease include haphazard urbanization, racial dis- crimination, disfiguring of the environment, unprecedented interdependence, and the dislocation of human identity and moti- vation created by an affluent society. These basic causes cannot be eliminated entirely.

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stock, Love Valley, Tenino, and Lewisville have been attempts, mainly by the young, to contend with and voice opposition to these national and international occur- rences. Our years at Columbia have also seen the uprising of the downtrodden, the un- derdog — the N.Y. Jets, Mets and Knicks each won the world championship in their respective sport. The United States landed a man on the moon, and Tiny Tim married Miss Vicki.

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The way in which we can make the greatest progress toward reducing violence in America is by taking the actions necessary to improve the social, physical, and psychological condi- tions of family and community life for all who live in our cities, and especially for the poor who are concentrated in the ghetto slums.