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Before World War II the Harvard Administration viewed its relationship with students as custodial. In loco parentis was the rule. The University was the authoritarian father to the students. It protected them, but it demanded obedience. Until the war, the University felt that it could require students to act in certain ways and expect students to respond. Requirements were not strict, but the point of view of the custodian shaped policy...
...policies of their national government. The mood of militancy has even afflicted Britain's Cambridge University, where King's College undergraduates-calling Prime Minister Harold Wilson a "fascist bastard" for supporting U.S. policy in Viet Nam-have asked for Marxist-oriented "alternative lectures" and called the in loco parentis role of their tutors "ridiculous." Asks one King's man: "How can a middle-aged man know about young people-and why shouldn't one be allowed to sleep with whom one wants...
...large, however, student reform efforts, despite the assistance of the National Student Association (NSA) in this area, have not gotten much beyond such "problems" as student-faculty relationships, required courses (as in the church-related colleges), in loco parentis regulations on personal conduct, and so forth. The campus-issue protesters share no thoroughgoing estrangement from the university comparable to the pervasive estrangement from American institutions characteristic of leftists. In their issue-to-issue involvement, the former, in the terms of Neil Smelser's model, typify a "norm-oriented" movement while the student left more nearly suggests a "value-oriented" (ideologically...
...permissive environment: The family has become more permissive and so has the church. The college no longer stands so much in loco parentis. The law gives wider latitude for freedom of action. All in all, there is a greater degree of autonomy, a lesser scope for authority. The student stands more on his own and relies more on his peer group...
...eyes of many a modern university protester, this was the golden age of education. The essential debate between Lernfreiheit, student freedom, and the Anglo-Saxon tradition that the college stood in loco parentis, was first articulated in Germany in the late 18th century, and later drew some 9,000 American students eager to endorse the new freedom. The issue is still being fought on American campuses...