Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

 - Class of 1968

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students who protest actively are only a small minority of the student community, they represent, in more intense form, feelings held by a majority of their fellows, and should not be discounted because of their numbers. The overt negativity of the activists reflects a basic attitude of modern society, an attitude easily seen in the art and literature of the past twenty years. In an age of anti-heroes, non-ideologies, and a dead God, they see a materialistic society whose values seem to be profits and uniformity, and in which there is little of an affirmative nature on which to base positive values. For most students, this negativity is only a background, but it is there nonetheless. The Berkeley demonstrations of 1965 attest to this, and it is an aspect of the student make-up every university must take into consideration. 1 n contrast to this, a second and more powerful aspect of the student personality is his concern for 9



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individuality and identity. This concern is a much more positive and constructive force in student behavior and motivations than the negativity inherited from society. The desire to assert one's identity is a natural reaction to the mass age of technology and uniformity. The student is already imbued with this desire by the time he reaches college, so that in college, as he learns more about himself and the world, the importance to him of his identity, his self, is great. He therefore reacts strongly to situations and environments in which his individuality is ignored or reduced. One of the principle causes of the Berkeley demonstrations was the impersonality of the institution; it seemed to be little more than a huge education factory, designed to produce robots. IBM cards reading, “I am an IBM card —do not bend, fold, spindle, or mutilate were worn as badges and all the manifestations of the university's impersonality as an institution were attacked. Of course, few suggestions were made for the improvement of the situation, which illustrates again the effects of the students' negative upbringing. It is a sad irony, though, that the ii

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