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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forums. It also arranges a series of concentration dinners in the spring where freshmen can meet professors from their prospective fields of concentration and ask questions over the friendly influence of a glass of sherry. These dinners are among the most valuable activities of the Council, and often help share concentration plans...
...corollary to this attitude was aggressive audacity. Offensiveness, wild hilarity, exhibitionism-one student ran naked up and down his hall. He said he consciously took on exaggerated roles, trying to find a way to break through to people. His last call for help, he says, was slashing his wrists in Graham Blaine's office. Dr. Blaine calmly sent him downstairs for sutures. The next day he was in the hospital...
ABOUT 600 undergraduates visit psychiatrists at the health services each year. Many of these are given psychological tests, but the tests are not always effective in pointing out which students are most in need of help. Eight of the students interviewed went to the health services; five were tested; only two of these tested were said to need psychiatric help. But one of those initially discharged with a clean hill of health-who later spent over a year in hospitals and saw 11 psychiatrists-said he "withheld a great deal" on the tests and in talking to his doctor...
...They wanted me to be like them, but I couldn't. I was split in two by an insoluble conflict, and I became suspicious of everyone. I always had to conceal myself. When I came to McLean, I found people who accepted everything and who were trying to help me. The attacks [of hysterical laughter] I had been having went away...
...present he has no specific ideas on how to cope with possible recurrences of last spring's disorders. May said, except to find out what reforms are desired and then try to help implement them. "If there's a real basis for student discontent, it probably doesn't lie in the kinds of things we were talking about last spring." but more in educational issues, he said...