Students were compared on alienation and three of its components: powerlessness, normlessness and social isolation. Among the findings were that the Puerto Ricans were less socially isolated than the white and black groups and that blacks showed more powerlessness and normlessness than whites. Implications for the university were discussed.…

In this period of comparative calm on college and university campuses, it is time for administrators to examine the causes of student unrest and to allow students a more autonomous and adult status in the academic community. (HS)

The results indicate that the activists studied were neither aggressive nor oversensitive. They appear to be students who have achieved success in the academic milieu, who appear interested in maintaining that success, and whose personalities and experiences have led them to believe they should have a role in affecting their environment.…

Reviews the leftist, the liberal, and the rightist conceptions of the modern university, with negative and positive features of each viewpoint considered in an historical context. (Author)

The author discusses aspects of the youth culture and concludes that counselors must reject the sanctimonious supremacy called adult chauvinism and try to communicate with the young. Youth might be looked to in order to intuit cultural adaptations that will increase chances that the human species will remain viable. (Author/BY)

Youth must realize that the goal of rebellion is not continued revolt but constructive change. Counselors can restore for each youth a sense of inclusion in the brotherhood of man, by providing him an opportunity for involvement in the democracy, and by fostering in him a sense of personal responsibility which progressively commits him to an…

The president of Performance Research, Inc., discusses some of the changes occurring in society today and trys to relate them to American education, and consider what they will mean for Architects..." (Author/AA)

Adolescents in a technological society are shown to be ignored and abandoned. While in transition and defining their identity, death may be an escape from the failure of finding self-worth. A guarantee of adolescents' place in society is needed; types of psychopathology leading to suicide need to be understood. (CM)

58 rural Kansas women were interviewed when their children were three, six, or nine years old, and again two years later. Maternal alienation appeared to be primarily affected by socioeconomic status, community involvement, and maternal education. The validity of anomia as a social measure of rural women was also examined. (Author/SK)