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...most helpful viewpoint expressed by Blaine was that a large part of student unrest occurs because "the nature of the college population has changed and yet the colleges have not changed to meet the different kinds of needs which this new type of population comes with." The percentage of high school students who go on to college, Blaine pointed out, has jumped from 10 to 55 in the last 15 years. As a result, "fewer students are intellectually curious, scholarly, academic types . . . . More are . . . interested in directly coping with the problems of living...
Blaine offered a cure for campus unrest along with his diagnosis. "The reformers and the discontented must be listened to and action taken on those demands which are reasonable ," he said...
Blaine attributed much of student unrest to the lack of challenge in our affluent society. He said that in order to create challenges, students take unnecessary risks. "Fast driving and irresponsible sexual behavior are... risk-taking activities engaged in by young people deprived of challenges presented to young people of other generations...
Another factor causing student unrest. Blaine said, is the change in the composition of college student bodies. Fifty-five per cent of high school students go to college today, compared...
...strange unrest hovers over the nations: This is the last dance, the wild tossing of Morgan's seas...