Summarizes the conclusions and recommendations of the National Association of Intergroup Relations Officials' conference held May 17-19, 1968 in Ephrate, Pa. Focuses on racism, Black Power, ghettos, riots and reactions thereof, behavior and attitudinal change, changing power relationships, and the role of the intergroup relations worker. (DM)

In response to heightening racial tensions in their school, the counselors proposed a Black White Discussion Group which met weekly to rap" together. This group was equally divided racially and sexually, with trained black and white leaders and a counselor from the high school. Response of the participants appears to have been very positive. (CJ)

The data seem to indicate that there is less role conflict between and among disciplines that are oriented exclusively to a school as compared with services that may embrace more than one school and have some community orientations. The utility of the paradigm merits further exploration. (Author)

The recipient of the 1983 Humanist of the Year Award discusses the need to integrate sexuality into the whole of life. To deal effectively with problems in our personal lives, in the classroom, and at the national and international levels, we must continue to study human conduct and interaction. (RM)

Human relations services funded under the Emergency School Aid Act were found to have had favorable but generally weak effects on student intergroup relations. Process and impact evaluation should be combined and individual effects should be examined. (Author/CM)

Research findings indicate that children who are unpopular with their peers play in less emotionally mature cognitive and social ways than do children who interact well socially. It is suggested that noncompetitive play in familiar environments may promote a behavior change in unpopular children. (JN)

Viability of Black, middle-class kinship groups is attributed to letter writing, personal contact, telephoning, mutual help, and ritual. Kin knowledge and interaction is reported to vary according to socioeconomic status and sex. Kin relations are said to be female-dominated and family reunions male-dominated. (JCD)

Culture conflict is reflected in Greek-American perceptions of themselves and of Greek nationals and vice versa. Greek Americans feel that hard work has resulted in wealth, education, and success; Greek nationals believe their American counterparts are mercenary and have forgotten old values. Greek Americans resent the behavior of newly arrived…

Research overwhelmingly supports the usefulness of cooperative learning for improving the social outcomes of schooling, such as intergroup relations, attitudes toward mainstreamed students, and general positive relations between students. (Author)

The central hypothesis of this paper is that the more a Black residential area resembles what is described as a "streetcorner district," the more likely its residents will view the wider society as "normless." (Author/EB)