Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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and concerns they engender in the students. To understand the current student generation, it is necessary first to understand the two basic aspects of the student personality. These characteristics, inherited by the students from the society in which they grew up, vary in degree from individual to individual, but are strong influences on general student behavior and motivation nonetheless. What is perhaps the most obvious fault of the student activists in the eyes of their critics is the seeming nihilism behind their thinking. In general, most student protests seem to be destructive instead of constructive —no solutions or alternative policies are offered, just dissent. The student activists appear to be governed by the conviction that things cannot improve, that only revolution could overcome the forces maintaining the status quo. So their protest is more to register their dissatisfaction than to try to improve the situation. And while it is true that the 6

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