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predicting that the time of John
F. Kennedy's generation and
liberalization will arrive in the
'9os. That period should continue
until the generation who "cut
their teeth in Reaganism"
mauves.
According to Schlesinger, the
cycle is self-generating and
independent. He noted that it
doesn't even correlate with
economic cycles. Shift from one
period to another occurs because a
particular course may solve many
problems but can't meet new
ones and because "the longer
people stay in government, the
more likely they are to make
mistakes," Schlesinger said.
Schlesinger explained that
people turn toward public
concerns when they tire of the
materialism and hedonism
promoted by periods of private
interest. Neglected problems also
add up, causing people to look
for solutions as well as meaning
in life. This leads to emphasis on
the public good over private
interest and a more active
government. People eventually
want a rest from strong
government, however, which
leads once again to the promotion
of private interests.
"Each is a good half, but an
impossible whole -- they must
combine," Schlesinger said of the
two periods.
Growing Liberalism
"The cycle did not call for a
liberal victory (in the presidential
election) in 1988 it called for a
change in the '9os", Schlesinger
said, but he claimed that he could
"recognize the symptoms of
change." He pointed out that
Michael Dukakis had done better
in the election than the two
previous Democratic candidates.
He also noted several of Reagan's
reversals, including his change
from referring to the Soviet
Union the "evil empire" to
signing a treaty with them and
his increasing concern for human
rights.
Schlesinger also pointed to a "We may need our own home
backlash against big business, grown version of perestoika,"
growing interest in the Schlesinger said, referring to
environment, and a recent Soviet leader Mikhail
Rolling Stone poll that reported Gorbachev's policy of economic
Martin Luther King, Jr. and reform. To achieve economic
Robert Kennedy as the most independence, he said, we must
admired people as signs that "the stop consuming more than we
tide is turning." produce and be more productive.
President Bush's "kinder, He compared the savings rate of
gentler America" is a reflection of two percent of the gross national
these changes, Schlesinger said. product in the 'Bos to the seven
In addition to supporting percent rate in the '7os as
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has questioned materialism and
declared that "any definition of
success must include serving
others."
Unlike Reagan, who said
government was the problem,
Bush realizes that government is
here to stay and it should be for
public service, not private gain.
"This is hardly a declaration of
liberalism," Schlesinger said,
"but Bush is a conservative of a
different stripe from those who
served under Reagan."
Schlesinger questioned Bush's
belief that private volunteerism,
his "Thousand Points of Light,"
is enough to strengthen the free
market. He said charitable
organizations don't think so and
look to the government for
providing the peoples' needs. "We
have a thousand points of light,
but alas, batteries are not
included," he said.
"Will the free' market give the
next generation a chance?"
Schlesinger asked. He questioned
whether it can solve problems
like the nation's aging
infrastructure, environmental
concerns, the growing gap
between the rich andpoor, drugs,
AIDS, crime, Wall Street
scandals and the savings and loan
crisis. Problems such as these, he
said, call on the resources of the
government.
Schlesinger strmeft America's
need to regain economic
independence. "In eight years
we've gone from the largest
creditor nation to the largest
debtor nation . . . . Never before
has America been so at the mercy
of foreign investors." He
mentioned the foreign buyout of
American property and
manufacturing and warned that "if
this national fire sale goes on,
one expects to hear that the
Japanese have bought Pearl
Harbor."
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Students Present Research At,
Edinboro Psychology' -Confere-nce
Three Behrend students gave
research presentations at the 17th
annual Western Pennsylvania
Undergraduate Psychology
Conference at Edinboro
University of Pennsylvania on
Saturday, April 22.
The conference featured 48
presentations by students from 14
colleges and universities. Behrend
is one of the founders of the
conference.
According to Dr.. Carl
Kallgren, associate professor of
psychology at Behrend, students'
work must be approved by their
school's faculty and a review
board before being presented to
the conference. Kallgren chaired a
session on social/clinical
psychology.
Ellen Goldberg presented her
research on "Others' Ratings of
Suicidal Clients as a Function of
Clients' Age and Race" in the
Clinical Psychology session.
Goldberg's experiment tested the
hypothesis that there are biases
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Joann Gelwicks presented the Benjamin A. Lane
Outstanding Service Award to Marge
Wizikowski, RUB Desk manager, last Sunday at
Behrend's 28th annual Honors and Awards
Ceremony. Over - 250 awards and scholarships
were presented to Behrend faculty, staff and
students during the ceremony in Erie Hall. -
(photo by Marybeth Zawistoski)
The Collegian Wednesday, April 26
against elderly and minority
suicidal clients as opposed to
young and Caucasian clients. She
found no bias against minority
patients but discovered that older
suicidal patients were perceived to
have significantly less potential
for happiness or solving their
problems and their suicides were
seen as slightly more allowable.
Goldberg will attend graduate
school at Clark University,
which Kallgren described as "one
of the best schools for clinical
psychology."
During the se lion on Anima/
Studies, science major Meeta
Pancholi presented a paper
entitled "The Cat as *a Model for
Human Vision." Pancholi
explored the great similarities
between human and cat visual
systems and the possibility of
using the cat as a comprehensive
model for human vision.
Kenneth Regalia presented his
research on "Beliefs in God and
the Metaphysical" during the
Grief, Death and Religion
session. Regalla, hypothesized
that beliefs in the metaphysical
"phenomena" of ESP, ghosts and
extra-terrestrial beings were
related to one another and to
belief =in God: He s also
hypothesized that older students
and science majors would have
weaker beliefs in metaphysical
phenomena and God than younger
and non-science majors. He found
that those who believed in God
tended to believe in ghosts, but
had no tendency to believe or
disbelieve in ESP , or extra
terrestrials. Additionally,
students' beliefs in all the
metaphysical phenomena were
related to one another. Science
majors did not express weaker
beliefs than non-science majors,
but older students did tend to be
more skeptical than the yobnger
Tempus
On Sale
Tempus, Behrend's literary
magazine will remain on sale
today beginning at noon outside
of the library.
Tempus contains a variety of
selected works of fiction, poetry
and essays submitted by Behrend
students.
The cost of the annual
magazine is $2.00.
Behrend
First
In Blood
Drive
Penn State-gehrend's Tau
Kappa Epsilon and Alpha Sigm'a
Alpha chapters were out for blood
when they led students, faculty
and staff in the battle to win the
Erie Blood Bank's 1988-89
Greater Erie Collegiate Blood
Drive Competition. And their
efforts paid off.
Penn State-Behrend topped the
total-donations list and received
the winner's trophy from Kathy
Crippen of the Erie Blood Bank
during ceremonies on Thursday,
April 6 in the Glennhill
Farmhouse. The award
presentation and the drive in the
Winter Garden on April 5 and 6
coincided with Behrend's
Wellness Awareness Week.
Together, Erie's four colleges
collected 348 units of blood
during the competition. Of those
units, 5
. percent_ came from Penn
State-Behrend, 3.8 percent from
Gannon and 3.6 percent from
Mercyhurst. Villa Maria the
winner of the competition for the
past two years, came in at 3.3
percent.
Jim Taylor, treasurer of
Behrend's TKE chapter, and Patty
McMahon, nurse practitioner and
member of the Health Advisory
Board, accepted the trophy for the
college.