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Good grades, Psychologist Leif J. Braaten and Psychiatrist C. Douglas Darling told the American Psychological Association, are not merely the sign of a successful student. The man who gets high marks, the Cornell University researchers said, is also the man most likely to attempt suicide...
...significant relationship between the urge to self-destruction and sex, marital status, nationality or religion. Bright students who felt they had academic difficulties simply "measured themselves according to their own standards, which were higher than those of the university." Anytime a student confesses to thoughts of suicide, said Drs. Braaten and Darling, university health officials should be alert for trouble. "Even a student who is intellectualizing about suicide should be carefully assessed." His motives, the researchers reported, are likely to be: 1) a desire to "destroy himself because he can no longer tolerate the discrepancy between how he appears...
...Picture. In Santa Barbara, Calif., Lutheran Minister Conrad Braaten confidently addressed the Kiwanis Club on the subject, "Glimpses of the Political, Economic and Religious Aspects in Hong Kong, India, Japan, Middle East, Kenya and East Germany...
...Braaten writes from Madrid, "I couldn't figure out any other way to get an egghead, a figurehead, and a hardheaded fund-raiser into the same cartoon. If this looks as though it were done between trains in a dingy Bilbao hotel room lit by a single naked bulb, it's because it was. Of course, it would have looked the same if it had been done in a north-lighted studio overlooking the Seine, but a guy has to have some excuse...
...Braaten's cartoons have been collected in the book, "Inside Harvard...