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Show 'College Students Are Not Adjusting:' Stanford Prof PALO ALTO, Calif. (LP.) Today's college students seem "ulcerous and neurotic" because they're driven by "compulsive competitiveness," preoccupied with sex, and are having difficulty adjusting to the first two years of university life, according to Prof. Lewis B. Mayhew, director of the Stanford Community College Col-lege Planning Center. SPEAKING RECENTLY in San Francisco at a national meeting meet-ing of the American Personnel and Guidance Association. Prof. Mayhew said, "Parents begin the pressure to insure that (their children) gain entry to the right institution. And the institution exerts similar pressure so that students achieve well and gain entry into graduate school. Motivation is most affected by affection affec-tion toward family, friends and self." The first two years of college seem almost designed to frustrate frus-trate students who otherwise might make sound and lasting a-chievement a-chievement during the college years, Dr. Mayhew added. He cited another study which showed that since 1958, "there has been an aJarming Incidence of suicide, hypertension, hyperten-sion, ulcer and the use of narcotics among college youth." ' Dr. Mayhew said that society's preoccupation with sex has perhaps been hardest on women students. "Women enter college physically prepared for sex but receive little if any help or guidance guid-ance from the institution about sexuality," he said. "A few colleges col-leges have tried to take a stand against pre-marital sex, but this is viewed by the students as unrealistic. "Most simply close their eyes to student sex activities if no unfavorable publicity develops. This leaves students to search for their own standards and to lose respect for the teachings of the college in other spheres as well." Dr. Mayhew said. |