FR!DAY, MARCH 29, 1968
fIACURW 'Well; 'ffeivir 'About ' hat'
"It is always pleasant to welcome visitors to
7enn State: There is special pleasure in welcoming
people such as 3rou'who are here to exchange -ideas
on the improvement of residence hall ;living. :1 hope
that you will find theSeJneetingi t both stimulating
and profitable;'?, - -
Thursday ,aftdrilOon, March 21, Eric A. Walker,
University president, welcomed the nearly 500 Na
tional Association of College and University Resi
dence Halls delegates to the 1968 NACURH national
conference.
• • "We are proud of our dormitory-gstem ,here. We
haye come a long way from a ,generation ago in
making the residence halls the beSt possible. lace for
Oudents to live," Walker said. •
And the delegates lived in the newest' arid
largest living area, East Halls. "I can't believe this
place," commented a delegate from a small school in
New Mexico, "East Halls is twice as big as my whole
school."
A delegate from Oklahoma State University,
wearing an orange 10-gallon hat bearing the letters
SU, said, "They say this here is the largest single
living area in the world. Well, how about that."
`Well, howl. bout. de - Scribed everything that
went on duringjhe three days of; the conference..,
Graham 'B./Blaine Jr., 'Chief of psychiatry at
Harvard UniyersitY; W ‘ as.the keynote spealer. Blain's
speech concerned stress and distress in college.
As psychiatrists understand it, students face two
THE NACURH national business , meeting, where students
from New England to Hawaii met to discuss residence
types of stress when they enter college.,According to
Blaine, they are those which come froth within and
those which come from without.: „-
"Besides the stresses that everyone has, Blaine
said, "there are those which are unique to college
Psychiatrists have noted the three most preval ,
exit types of stress as being: independence versus de=
pendence, identity formation and sexual formation,
which is much more extreme during these years
than at any other time of life.
"Students have conflicting ideas abotit wanting
to be independent and a need- for dependence much
of which is completely unconscious. In some so 7
cieties," Blaine said, "there is a clear line between
Childhood and manhood, but in our society there is
no such line.
"When a student enters college the alma mater
replaces the real mother and the alma mater faces
tbe same problems and is -open to the same mis
takes as the real mother."
The college student answers these mistakes with
rebellion, and according to psychiatrists, rebellion is
an extremely important part of becoming mature.
, "Rebellion is a way of counteracting feelings of
dependence," said Blaine. "If there is no rebellion
early there will be more serious rebellion later.
"It is important for many students to rebel
because it makes them feel more of a person. It helps
to maintain the courage of their convictions."
• According to Blaine, rebellion can be either con
structive or destructive. "Some rebellion can be
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permanently destructive. Take for instance drunken
driving or rebellious pregnancy. Some girls become
pregnant merely as rebellion against dependence on
their parents.
"Colleges have ,a responsibility •of authority.
.They must help the'student. This is not an easy task,
and - there must be room for experiment. The "student.
:himself often does not know what he wants: An
example of this is the situation that occurred at
Berkeley a few years ago. The demonstrators asked
for two things. They wanted freedom,— they said
`leave us alone' and at the same time they yelled, 'pay
attention to us'."
Consider the Individual
Blaine said that administrators should not lock
themselves into penalties. Each case should consider
the individual and what is best for that particular
person. •
Identity forination is "the life cycleand forma
tion of identity; a feeling of being at liOnte within
one's self," according to Blaine. -
"College is the ideal place to gain identity. A
person does not have to make a lasting decision.
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hall living. Nearly 500 delegates, who lived in PSU's
newest and largest East Halls, attended the conference.
There is room for experimentation. During this time
the person absorbs the characteristics of persons he
admires, and this too is completely unconscious.
There are two things which, according to Blaine,
interfere with identification formation. Disillusion
ment
.in or death of an identification figure is one,
and intrusiveness, or parents who are unable to give
growing children their privacy or a chance to do any
thing on their own, is the other.
"Identification figures should be easy to find in
college. The college should also encourage a mora
torium. Students should be- encouraged to leave
school when that is the thing to do. Students should
not be stuck with majors in which they are not
interested."
Sexual orientation provides yet another stress
that the college student must face. "Students do not
know how to deal in a natural way with these prob
lems, and there is no completely legal outlet for
these students." Blaine said that there is a great
difference of opinion among administrators on how
to deal with this problem and that there is a great
amount of inconsistency.
Not only must the student work out answers for
these stresses, but according to Blaine, there are
things which must be developed.
"There is a great demand for originality in col
lege. For the most part students have not been called
upon to be creative up until now.
"The college student faces a great shock to his
value system: Many students come into college from
a very homogeneous society. Here they meet diver-
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gent opinions about right and wrong, and there is
confusion about their own ideas and whom to believe.
The student 'also faces greater.lreedom' than. he
has ever known before. "The.studerit is freed from
rules and regulations and f_ or some .thi.s ,is, very
stressful."
Blaine
,emphasized': that the. college does not
always know the proper way to handle all of these
situations. "Sometimes when we think that we are
doing the most for people we are actually standing
on their life lines."
_.. The conference also heard an address from. David
GOttlieb,, profeisor of human development. Gottlieb
came to. Penn State after having spent -three years
workinewith the' Job Corps in Washington, D.C.
•
.Gottlieb spbke about the problems facing Negroes
and whites in America.
"People do not realize just how poor the poor
actually are. Eighty per cent of the people who
came to us had not been to see a doctor or dentist
in the past 10 years. Twenty-one per cent of them
had been asked to leave school for disciplinary prob
lems, many of which were actually medical prob
lems. Imagine trying to sit through a class suffer
ing from a bleeding ulcer." •
Gottlieb said that the Job Corps has found that
there-is no relationship between schOoling and the
ability to read or write., "People came to us at 17
years old with a fifth grade reading level.
"These people came to the Job Corps because
many of them saw it as their last chance to make
it into the middle class. Colleges and universities
must work with these youngsters right away or
there will be real chaos and separation. These peo
ple cannot compete in our society because most of
them lack any kind of sophistication."
Three things, Gottlieb said, reflect what is hap
pening in the United States today.
'"We are living in an era of great sociological
change. In our society it is hard to get a foothold
because someone is always trying to change you.
"There are no lOnger any proletariat students.
We live, for the most part in an affluent society
where students are no longer forced to do hard
physical labor to get through school.
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"And finally, we live in an age of violence. We
can destroy the world very rapidly. There is both
international and inter-racial violence. The problem
is that people think that it is out there but it is not
out there. it is right here."
There are legitimate ways to voice discontent
according to Gottlieb. He said that there are pro
grams where we go out into the ghetto and work
and that these programs are good, but, "we must
also bring these kids to the University.
"College students should also gain credit for
working in Appalachia. They could learn 'as much
and probably more there than sitting in a class
room for 10 weeks.
"We have got to maintain and intensify inter
racial relations. We should accept black students
who do not meet the universities' requirements, and
there must be more discussion on the campuses.
College students can now make the greatest steps
ever in solving these problems."
When Gottlieb concluded his talk, the audience,
with the exception of the Southern NACURH dele
gates, came to their feet and gave him a three
minute standing ovation.
The delegates also participated in presentations
by individual schools. Steve Gerson of Penn State
led a discussion on medical facilities. The delegates
discussed problems that they have or had at their
particular schools and what they did about them.
The discussion turned to ambulance services
at the University and one girl said, "I think y'all
are lucky to have ambulances." Another girl com
mented that if a person got sick at her school after
12 noon they were in trouble because they would
have to wait until nine the next morning for their
health center to open.
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DAVID GOTTLIEB, speaker at last week's NACURH con
ference: "Lew Alcindor got more scholarship offers than
any National Merit finalist."
Many people found that the facilities at their
schools are a great deal better than they had pre
viously realized, and all of the delegates went home
With new ideas on how to make their own school
better.
Oakland University in Oakland, Michigan, pre
sented a program entitled sex and psychedelics in
which they described two workshops that were
presented by their school to educate the student
body on these problems,
Each of the topics was handled individually
and pro and con were presented for each. Oakland
University found that there is a great amount of
naivete among the student body and that these
programs helped to-clear up much of this. The dele
gates from Oakland strongly recommend this pro
gram and said that all of them gained immensely
from participation in it.
There were a great many presentations such as
these going on at the same time. Each delegate had
the opportunity of attending whichever one he
wanted.
The early evenings were filled with business
meetings. In these meetings the business of the
association was transacted.
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The meetings were conducted by President
Kenneth Stoner from Kansas and Parliamentarian
Donald Antrim of Penn State.
After the long days and evenings of meetings
the delegates returned to East Halls for entertain
ment. Thursday night there was a jammy in Findlay,
Friday brought the Little German Band and a
"Casino Night."
Saturday evening the delegates attended a
banquet in the Hetzel Union Building ballroom at
which Laurence H. Lattman, professor of geomor
phology at the University, spoke.
After the banquet, delegates could attend a beach
party at the Natatorium or see "Son of the Shiek" at
"Nickelodeon Night."
The 'delegates were, for the most part, highly
enthusiastic when they arrived, and even more so
when they left three days later.
"I have learned a lot at the conference," said a
student from Colorado, "and I hope that I can put
it to use when I get back to school."
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