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PAGE 10...THE VOICE...APRIL 15, 1971 rBOoFREVIEWS Why do they riot? Student opinion of parents and professors, God and religion, drugs and the draft, are candidly reported by students themselves in a book entitled THE COL LEGE SCENE by James A. Foley and Robert K. Foley (McGraw-Hill Paperbacks, $2.95). Under the co-direction of the Foley brothers. The College Poll of Connecticut’s Greenwich College Research Center conducted 3,000 personal inter views of students from a cross section of 100 of the nation’s universities. Using established scientific techniques, the findings were reduced to data-process ed conclusions and have been turned into refreshing editorial dialogues. Both authors encourage parents, and men and wo men of the older generation, to read this study in volving such questions as why students riot; how big business rates on campus; whether or not pro fessors wage war; and the latest information on abortion and sex, hippies and long hair. “For it is quite possible,” comment the brothers, “that the gen eration gap is a chasm that can be closed with great er ease than either side imagines.” Still very active in student affairs, James A. Foley attended Norwalk College and now supervises the edi torial board and commercial studies for The Poll. Robert K. Foley is presently an economics major at Villanova, and he supervises The Poll’s field staff and international operations. The College Poll was started at the urging of top newspaper editors to provide a dialogue with college students. Now in its third year and in 11 countries. The College Poll covers thousands of in-depth inter views which are processed and reported to more than 50 leading newspapers, and over NBC “Monitor” every week-end. The smiling meemies Dedicated to Richard the Lion-Hearted, WHO’S AFRAID? — THE PHOBIC’S HANDBOOK by Bar bara Fried runs the gamut from Anxiety to Space Phobia with such rare, non-garden varieties of pho bias as fear of exhaust pipes, bowls of waxed fruit, hippopotamuses and tuna fish thrown in for good measure (McGraw-Hill, $5.95). Presented in a wry and witty style, this array of human fears and hangups will provide many a chuck le for the non-phobic reader: phobias are in trinsically funny — to other people. Persons who do have unreasonable fears will discover in these pages that they are neither alone nor beyond help. As Mrs. Fried notes, it is true that “in a world where television sets radiate silent menace in a cor ner of your living room, and where the very air you breathe is killing you, the line between what is and what is not realistically dangerous does tend to be rather fuzzy. Nonetheless, everyone will probably agree that caterpillars, cats, thunder, a bowl of fruit, blood, going over a bridge, the dark, automo bile tailpipes, going to school, and butterflies are not in themselves harmful; yet all these things terrify somebody. A phobic wil! even admit that large shiny green leaves cannot possibly hurt him. After admit ting it, however, he will go right on being afraid. And the more you try to talk him out of it, the quicker you make him go elsewhere.” Furthermore, the author points out, the phobic’s anxiety is out of proportion to the actual risk even when a real hazard is involved, as in flying. “Such totally unrealistic behavior can only mean that the phobic is not reacting to the object itself but that, instead, the object must stand for something else, although only to him— and that something else is what he’s responding to. Which is to say that a phobic object, idea, or situation is actually a pro jection of an anxiety-provoking idea that your con scious mind doesn’t want to know about, but that your unconscious mind insists in thinking about anyway, “The trouble is that the unconscious doesn’t know from being reasonable, and the damn thing NEVER forgets.” Basically, WHO’S AFRAID? is a descriptive book about phobias — what causes them, who has them, what they are like, how we react to them, what some of the more prevalent ones are, and what they mean psychologically and socially. It owes its charming and captivating quality to the talent of Barbara Fried, author of the popular THE MIDDLE- AGF CRISIS, and Seymour Chwast, partner in the famous Push-Pen Studios, whose elegant and sar donic illustrations have graced the media in every form: his Little-Man-Afraid with hair standing up on end enhances the sophisticated, light text and is a delight to the eye. HE PUBLISHES HANDBOOK The Institute of Inter national Educationan- nounces publication of the fifth edition of the HAND BOOK ON INTERNA TIONAL STUDY FOR U.S. NATIONALS, a work that has come to be recog nized as the basic guide in the field. Intended pri marily for the serious graduate or undergrad uate student or the schol ar who is interested in attending a foreign uni versity or specialized institution with a definite academic or profession al goal in mind, the HAND BOOK also provides ex tensive information in compact form for faculty advisers, teachers, and other counselors advis ing U.S. students about study abroad and assess ing the academic back grounds of foreign stu dents. The HANDBOOK de scribes the higher edu cational systems of 120 countries and territor ies and lists all the uni versities and other insti tutions which are recog nized within these coun tries as university - level institutions. It al so includes selected lists of specialized institu tions — technical schools and art schools, music schools, etc, — which of fer study opportunities similar to university - level training in the Unit ed States. It provides in formation on the language of instruction, the aca demic year, major uni versity degrees, admis sion procedures, costs, housing, and special pro grams of interest to U.S. students. A period of study a- broad is becoming a standard part of the well- rounded U.S. education, and the number of aca- demic-year and summer study programs sponsor ed by U.S. colleges and universities has more than quadrupled in the past decade. These pro grams are listed in sep arate chapters of the new HANDBOOK, with current information about the fields of study offer ed, enrollment, housing, costs, scholarships, and application deadlines. An important chapter of the HANDBOOK lists awards for study and research ininstitutions of higher learning abroad. Information is given on the nature of each pro gram, eligibility require ments, financial grants, duration, and the address for application. Another chapter lists various special programs of in terest to students, train ees, and volunteers and to teachers, university lecturers, and special ists. These programs mix opportunities for study and training with others for voluntary service and employment. The Institute of Inter national Education is a leading private, nonprofit agency in the field of ed ucational and cultural ex change. Through its New York headquarters, se ven U.S. Regional Offices, Overseas Offices on four continents, and represen tatives in 26 countries, HE carries on exchange programs between the U.S. and more than 100 other countries. The HANDBOOK ON INTERNATIONAL STU DY FOR U.S. NATION ALS is available from the Institute of Interna tional Education, 809 United Nations Plaza, New York, New York 100 17, for $7.00 a copy. A companion volume, the HANDBOOK ON INTER NATIONAL STUDY FOR FOREIGN NATIONALS will be published later in 1971. Michener: Guard not threatened during Kent State shooting New York, March 25 — Author James A. Michener says that his investigation of last May’s shootings at Kent State University indicates that National Guardsmen were not under attack when they fired the shots that killed four students. The author says that according to a photograph taken several minutes before the shooting began - at a time when many reports claim Guardsmen were under direct attack - at least 200 yards separated the Guards from the mass of stu dents. Moreover, the photograph shows nearly 40 yards of empty space plus a high steel fence between the Guards and the parking lot where the students were shot. Michener says further that the Guard unit may unwittingly have trapped it self by taking up its position without realizing that it would be surrounded by a six-foot chain-link fence. Michener’s conclusions about the Kent State tragedy are contained in the April issue of Reader’s Digest, which comes out March 25. His report is the second in a two-part condensation of a book commissioned by the Digest, to be published as a Reader’s Digest Press Book in cooperation with Random House on April 30. In the April Digest’s 12,500-word section, Michener traces moment by moment the events leading to the shooting and the upheavals that shook the nation afterward. In the aftermath of the shootings, Michener says, an unparalleled outpouring of hatred was unleashed. It took the form of vilification of the dead students in VV//45 OFTEW the . »P0fT'5 : I Although the book’s main approach is humor ous, the information it provides is technically and psychologically accu rate. All pertinent ap proaches to treatment are outlined and explained. Its main value to a read er — besides being thoroughly entertaining - is help in allaying his anxieties and shame about being phobic: phobias are so irrational that most sufferers do not even ad mit having them. particular and of young people in general. Of the 400 students he interviewed in preparing his story, Mich ener says, "at least 25 percent declared they had been told by their own parents that it might have been a good thing if they had been shot.” Michener describes the Kent State campus onMon- day. May 4 - the day of the shootings - as “a scene of uncertainty, fear and planned riot,” He says that incredibly, thousands of students and faculty mem bers returning to campus were not even aware of the preceding weekend’s riots, nor of the burning of the university’s ROTC building on May 2. In the wake of the riots,university and National Guard officials - the Guard had been summoned to the campus and arrived late Saturday - had prohibit ed all outdoor rallies, including those previously scheduled. Yet, says Michener, despite distribution late Sun day and early Monday of thousands of leaflets and radio announcements of the ban, the word just did not get around to many of the returning students. Included in the ban was a rally set for noon on Monday to protest U. S. involvement in Cambodia. It was this rally that became the fatal confrontation. At 11:48 a.m., Michener reports, somebody began ringing the school’s victory belL The bell, mounted on a low brick housing on Blanket Hill, continued clanging for the next 15 minutes. Michener de clares it played “a major role, first in assembling the students and then in keeping them agitated.” He (Continued on page 11) r I
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