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Show Is long hair good, btr Nevertheless, Iter study was basically to sec if there were differences on subjective evaluations, evalua-tions, such as teachers giving grades, and objective evaluations like standard achievement tests. But she did not study the concept of rebellion against our society as ,1, "TllC ''Csuls in- , standard 1 and ihc 0 Mch bo , i:lhcr sidc fw? ,l,c k'""-"-cd L BY PHILIP M.HOWARD, JR. Staff Writer Question: Does long hair get in 1C way of a male High schoo students academic behavior.' Answer: In some eases, says Mrs IVooy F Foard. 45, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Educational psychology. Mrs Foard recently completed a thesis in which she did a comparison com-parison study of boys who did and boys who didn't wear long hair last year in school. Bui wiiat is long hair0 Mrs. Foard used three criteria. The hair had to extend over the car to Ihc bottom of the ear lobe. The sidc burns had to be at least to the bottom of the car lobe and die hair down the back of the head had to "hang loose" to the first vertebra. "I used three of the high schools and four junior highs," she says, "to get an accurate cross section by socio-economic levels in different areas of Salt Lake. Basis of Study "The basis of my study was test data thai had been gathered in the district lasi February through May. Every sixth studcnl in the public schools was given a huge battery of tests, such as the Stanford Stan-ford Achievement, the Olis-Lennon Olis-Lennon Mental Abilities ( IQ) lest and others on a I tendance and grades." And the idea of the tests says Mrs. Foard, was to get information infor-mation on all grade levels in these specific areas, which she called "non-cognitive" or affective attitudes atti-tudes and eniolions-aicas dealing with sludy habits, hcallh inven- n't cht ... Wh o ieli: 'Ar . A tli rin lory and Ihc drop out potential. The students ranged from 12 to 14 on the junior high level and up to IX in high school. Forty seven long-haired students and 52 short-haired were smveyed in her sludy as a result of the district lesis. Moreover, man)' of the junior high boys weren't mature enough to grow sideburns, bul they knew how io lake, they grew hair from the temple area, which would hang down and look like side burns says Mrs. Foard. the reason for the long hair, because be-cause she didn't have permission to talk to any of the boys. Her study was to be based strickly on the lesl data. "Willi students, you get some kind of a subjective measure if you consider the amount they arc absent. And 1 Ieli. if there were subjective differences dif-ferences between the long haired and short haired boys, but not objective ones, then we would know sonicihing. K V this signilieantly more o: jes Grades L' 'try "The fad that ihitle lower where as ili; v c lesls weie ihc . 'ed indicate siaiisiidl; B some kind ol c eni against lone-haired r say seem to evaluate f 5 lC "And i lie lii'1' ' long-haired boys w ' 'c ('(iiiliiiirfiiri:15 r r fhe answer isn't call that simple physical strength. ..the man was stronger. But now, we have other means for providing this strength in our mechanized society. Still, for a lot of people, physical strength means male sex, and that's how you tell a man is a man. In any event, the controversy continues as more and more rhapsodize rhap-sodize over this choice bit of meat in our cultural slew, albeit some such as Mrs. Foard are concluding from research that hair length alone is inadequate as a basis for making judgements and predictions pre-dictions about human beings. Continued from page 6 ich more, didn't seem to affect : sir achievement test scores." ! In any event, Mrs. Foard says s discrimination is apparent on th sides. The teachers' evalua-n evalua-n of the long-haired boys is ver, and the long-haired boys n't have too much use for the chers. What about racial and ethnic jups? She says there aren't illy significant numbers in the y for a study such as this, cause every sixth student was Vrveyed. And for that matter, ig hair wasn't that popular her, because of the seven lools in her sample, only 47 idents who had taken the bat-y bat-y of tests had long hair. In her thesis, titled "The Com-rison Com-rison of Long Haired and Non-mg-Haired Boys," she also ints out that throughout his-y his-y long-hair has been used as a nbol for different political, rial, philosophical and religious iefs. So, she adds, this to do jut length of hair is nothing v. Century Round Heads a mini for a while and then a maxi. "We have locked ourselves into certain kinds of roles which are not inherent, they are culturally derived and now a lot of people are trying to shatter these. And originally, I guess, these behavior roles of the sexes were based upon "You have the 17 Century und Heads of England who had rt hair and the Cavaliers who yre theirs long. And there were 'ii short-haired Normans who ' lquered the long-haired Saxons, e Taiping Revolt in China, was o known as the long-haired lellion. 'And until recently, the Ameri-. Ameri-. Army had strict regulations the length of a soldiers hair, ring World War II the clean cut k was the zenith of masculinity this country. Then in the mid-ies, mid-ies, the beat generation came, sy had the long hair, wine, :try and some marijuana. The itles then hit and made a whole : v culture and they were folded fol-ded by the Hippies. 'But adults didn't bother ; ening to what the Hippies had say. All they managed to do s to look at the hair. They saw t, drugs and sexual deviance, . I long hair began to mean these ,igs. Meanwhile, the Beatle cul-e cul-e didn't necessarily mean this to the kids. They liked the music, the culture and the changing styles which the new culture represented." rep-resented." Different Kinds However, Mrs. Foard says there are many different kinds of boys who wear long hair, and are looked upon by many adults as being all the same, but they are not. And this she noted was the reason for her study. Also, she says students on the college level are more independent and the length of their hair isn't a big issue. "But it takes a lot of guts for a 15 year old boy to grow shoulder-length hair when he's living home with his mother and father. "I would like to see the length of a boys hair go the way women's dress lengths have gone--all the way from the mini to the maxi. It depends upon what a boy feels like wearing. If he wants to wear his hair long, that's okay, just like a girl might want to wear |
