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UNCOMMITTED: ALIENATED WITH IN AMERICAN SOCIETY, Kenneth Keniston. New York: Court, Braes, and World...
...Uncommitted", published this month, Kenneth Keniston '51, reports that disenchantment among today's academic youth is more prevalent than at any precious time in history...
...Keniston, a former Junior Fellow and lecturer in the Soc Rel Department, helped run the intensive psychological studies between 1956 and 1962. He was a member of a team directed by Henry A. Marray '15, professor of Clinical Psychology, Emeritus, and sponsored by the Harvard Center for Research in Personalities...
...Keniston is currently an assistant professor of psychology at Yale. He said yesterday that the statistical details of the Harvard study will be included in his next book. "The Alienated Student," which will be published next year...
...collegians are so disengaged, what accounts for the recent rise of campus conservatives? They represent "the displaced apprentice," argues Keniston. Typically, they come from small conservative towns. Feeling out of date on a sophisticated campus, they repudiate its liberal values to save selfesteem. Liberals, he finds, fall mostly into "single issue groups" -usually "academic" students whose concern to ban this or that stems largely from high intellectual awareness. Such bright youngsters, the fruit of rising admission standards, are all for such unexceptionable American values as peace, equality and freedom. They just want to carry them out. So they picket...