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Show College Discussion: Immorality Helps Increase Awareness PITTSBURGH, PA. ( I. P. ) "More than at any other time in our history as a nation, we talk openly and almost continually about immorality. Curiously, we do not also talk as openly or continually about morality," states Dr. Edward D. Eddy, Jr., president of Chatham College. "In any case, the college student stu-dent Is far more outspoken and doesn't particularly shy away from talking about matters mat-ters which previous generations genera-tions preferred to conceal and snicker over. So, too, the colleges as a result re-sult are more aware of the problems prob-lems of students. We are, I think, all being more honest in attempting attempt-ing better identification of what actually happens to a student as he or she passes through college. "YOUTH TODAY is far more clever than many of us wish to acknowledge, possibly because when we were their age, we had neither that degree of cleverness nor sophistication. "Today's student plays a game with adult reactions, a truly fascinating game. "He or she knows which button but-ton to push to elicit anger, shock sympathy, or pity. When an eager-eyed reporter descends on a campus to pry open Pandora's box, he is met by a veteran button-pusher. "IF THE REPORTER is silly enough to believe all that a student stu-dent tells him, the student is sure to tell him all, and quite a bit more. "Thus the books and articles flow forth with apparently ever increasing intensity. Dr. Max Lerner, who ought to know better, bet-ter, wrote the introduction to a volume entitled 'Sex and the College Col-lege Girl.' "IN IT, HE asserted authoritatively authori-tatively that the world of the college girl, is that of motels, parked cars, drive-in movies, fraternity fra-ternity houses, dormitory rooms during 'parietal' hours, apartments apart-ments loaned for the week end. " 'It is a world of buzzing booming internal confusion, of sex without bed, of bed without love, of hedonism without joy.' "This may be true for a few, unfortunate students, as it always al-ways has been, but somehow the good Professor Lerner has not peeked into college libraries recently. re-cently. i "He has ignored the pressures pres-sures on every college librarian libra-rian to keep the reading rooms open almost 24 hours a day. "He has ignored such statistics as that at Chatham College which indicate a 22 per cent jump in book circulation in one year alone. "AND HE HAS ignored the far larger number of students who are plainly disgusted and dismayed by their contemporaries contemporar-ies who do seek bed without love and hedonism without joy. "I can't recall a story or a picture pic-ture about the thousands of college col-lege students who spent the summer sum-mer working in settlement houses or psychiatric hospitals." |
