Rebellion in the University [antikvár]

IntroductionThe American university has been a place of turmoil since the Berkeley revolt of 1964-65. A literal flood of books and articles has poured forth seeking to describe, advocate, or analyze different modes of campus behavior. These analyses have ranged from those that place the responsibility for campus discontent on aspects of the social structure to some that see the university itself as the source. Still others argue that specific political events, especially the war in Indo-China and the civil rights struggles, are the principal energizing factors. These theories, of course, are not mutually exclusive. Each of them would appear to contain some validity.The approaches which stress societal factors include the proposition that changes in child-rearing and educational practices have produced a generation of students who combine belief in equalitarian doctrines with an insistence on instant gratification. The scions of the liberal segment of the upper-middle class were reared by parents who did not discipline them strongly for fear of injuring their personalities, and sent them to "progressive" private or suburban public schools. These parents also accepted the belief, as David Cohen has argued, that youth should not be