Page Six @til resin Phil Brown, a Gi'iililell student. is Spendill his junior year zlblxililtl at the Albert Schweit ,er College in Clluriialtleli (GR) Switzerland. This article is the ii iii a two part series. Tile ‘ti'avol-year’ which is relatively com— mon among European students seems to be ba— sically a sound idea, ‘lor everyone needs at some time in his life to be able to have a sizeable period away from his al influences alid pi sures ' much in ' ile in the Western \Voild. ion System notches the idea up in a characteristic fashion by or- ' alid grouping aiid or nting students into d Ferent . . . a‘bi' id pi'og ims wllicll l'ea- time limited 1 eedom and guaranteed credit as the main attractions. Limited freedom an attraction in the sense that it is oi‘t‘e 'ed in the guise of getting to know a foreign cultiiie in secure surroundings and under tile proper cli- J'ection. _ This kind of a criticism of the trad' onal X-College year abr 'id pro im is unfair be- cause of its overly inclusive phrasing. There a 'e indeed many individuals who benefit as iiidiiid- uals from their experiences abroad under such a program, biit in most cases this is not: the programs fault. Probably the best tliilig which can be said about such programs is that they offer the opportunity, intentional or not, for individual awakening. it is my contention that for most; college and univel ity students this £\\H|l\'enlng, psychological aiid intellectual comes at a time when it is easilv supprse ed by the social conditions inherent iii his iirioiindings ie. the culture of ‘American Oil" .ation‘ and enerts on ten SCARLET AND BLACK more particularly the atmosphere of collegiate life. There are two obvious ways ill which this collegiate atmosphere hinders the outbreak and development ol’ the personal iiwiil ning which is all-minortant in developing iudiiidiials who are capable oi" acting for themselves and of pen, etl'ating' the potent iiivtli of or ill .atioiial col— lectivitv in an egalitarian socict (lt " impor— tant to remember that throughout history it has been the e men who have been respolsible [or the binding. the ascension ol' culture and soCiety.) First/mast colleges or more correctly ‘iii- stitutions of highei learning” embrace a social conditioning ml which functions as a real model oi the '0 al community of our Cllltlli‘ci except that it is taken out of cont \ The mini, nor in which the college cominuniti is a model out of context becomes clear in the [min of the crisis the individual faces in the college eli- vironmont. He is allowed to realize the i‘act that many of the social more and ideals which he feels he must ight against do not derive their source 01‘ authenticity l'l'om any distinct exter- nal authority, but rather l'rom himself as a psychologically and sociologically conditioned man; lo. the notion of authority becomes emas- culated along with the self. Thus far there has been a real awakening, and this undoubtedly does occur consciously or ilnconsmously in many college students and in last all young peo— ple of certain educational alid social back— Friday, April l2, [963 er ties: grounds \i'llen mooserl to ceitain situational l’ac- tors Then the community oi the college is plus ont, icady to tliil” the individual back into iin-. toltuicd, llllClltltzll iiavs ot thinking and liiiiig‘, oifelling a socially lnctilied v to security on campus and substituting adii tinent iol iii- iior [\I1)l)lll(‘>.\j and iicedom just as in oui oiin lalgei society. (of coiiise the pioblem that things dolit ulna * l‘ oi k out o securely, and then there are some him never eonl‘oriii and sonic colleges that offer the opportunity not to conioi'm.) Tho cond \iay ill iiliieh the college atmos» phere stltles and restricts that ai ikeliing is by putting so much academic piessuie on the student that he is ioiced into the choice of studying and learning on his own and in bi own way and consequently risking bad marks and academic rest “etion in the Future, or con forming to the do. red standard of expectations placed upon him by the college and the com- munity of students of which he is a part and often forieitilig much individual and personal development, There is a thiid solution which can be taken which is pretending to be a stu- dent, ie. going half way towards fulfilling both ends and thereby ma iig' the two ends nothing but; moans towards a kind oi" conformity which is anxiety filled and too i'lilniliri' to most of us. i believe an educational solution is possibiehel‘e, and that high level experimentation is Vital. Philip Bl'oivn SCORE Boosts ‘ Human Relation . 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