Jews Number More Than 01w-Third of Hippie Community Being Researched
By BEN GALLOB
neeess;iry for the construction of - is scheduled to be completed '
A pilot study of 51 hippies living appropriate data-gathering instru- next June.
Dr. Holmes stressed that the
in Manhattan's East Village found ments" for a more comprehensive
findings of the pilot study concern-
that more than one-third were study. •
ed
a group too small "to permit
Jews, and that male hippies with
Subsequently. the Associated Ys
Jewish parents far outnumbered received a two-year $108,000 grant valid generalizations" but that the
general
conclusions did seem to
males whose parents were of other from the National Institute of
religious affiliations. The study Mental Health for the more com- indicate the "practices and char-
was made in 1967 by the Center prehensive study, which was be- acteristics of the broader hippie
for Community Research, the re gun in June 1968. The federally- community." The pilot study be-
search department of the Asso- financed study seeks to compare gan with the recruiting, training
YM-YWHAs of Greater the hippies with non-hippie adoles- and deployment of five indigenous
ciated
hippie interviewers who conducted
New York.
cents in such areas as the socio-
with fellow-hippies liv-
Dr. Douglas Holmes, director logy and psychology of alienation, interviews
ing in the East Village area. All
of the research department, re- drug abuse and other areas of five
wert
college
graduates.
ported the reasons for the pilot adolescent behavior which have
The findings showed that most
study. One was the increasing become matters of concern to the
of
,
51
hippies
had attended col-
alarm among parents, teachers general community.
lege and that 10 per cent had been
The subjects of the larger
and mental health professionals
(Copyright 1970, ETA, Inc,)
over the nature of drug abuse
among teen-agers which he report-
ed had also become "a common
cause for concern" ,among affili-
ated Jewish centers.
The pilot study also was under-
taken as a test of the willingness
of potential respondents to cooper-
ate and as "a source of data ,
study are 2(10 hippies in the East
Village, matched by an
number of teen-alters from
equal
five
Ys. Family and social relations
and commitment to social goals
also are being studied in the
two groups, with the goal of
developing preventive and re-
habilitation programs. The study
utopian forms of behavior, e.g.,
sexual p.,Aniscuity and drug use."
There is, he declared, "a wide
range of qrientation from the ideal-
ist to the out-and-out hedonist."
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, January 16, 1970-13
three years older than the girls.
Most came from middle-class
families, with annual incomes of
fathers reported as between $10,-
000 and , .
While 47 per cent of the males
were Jews, only 20 per cent of the
i girls were Jewish. A dispropor-
tionately great number of girls
reported Protestant backgrounds.
Five per cent of the hippies came
from atheistic backgrounds and 16
"mixed" religious back-
extreme discrimination than that from
WASHINGTON (JTA)—A federal practiced
grounds, suggesting that the actual
by any other major
investigation
is planned
that level
will industry. Companies with inter- number of Jews in the group might
include
a probe
of executive
ests in Arab states have tended be closer to 40 per cent than the
anti-Semitic discrimination by oil
, that their parents had treated
into anti-Jewish discrimination in
The investigation of the oil in- them in "a relatively consistent
managerial employment by the
would
manner." This was reported to be
du.stry's
executive
suite
bias
automotive and electronic indu,-
tries. Plans are being draWn up conic at a time when top-level , "particularly true among Jewish
by the Office of Federal Contract oil men have been involved in ' respondents." One of nearly every
anti-Israel controversy. Leading ex- five reported that at least one of
Compliance
of the U.S. Department ecutives recently met with Presi- • their parents used marijuana.
of Labor.
dent Nixon to urge a more pro- Most of the. hippies reported hav-
OFCC Director John L. Wilks
ing had few meaningful social re-
has noted studies by the Anti- Arab policy.
lationships among parents and
The OFCC
had already of
Defamation League of Bnai Brith barked
on an investigation
in- f friends, for example, before they
disclose that Jews represent only
entered the hippie "community."
1.5 per cent of corporate execu- surance companies. Some 20 in-
Within the hippie subculture,
tives employed by the oil industry surance companies have met with all of the 51 reported prior or
federal investigators to discuss
in New York.
current
use of marijuana. Well
of
hiring
practices
The under - representation of improvement
over half reported using mari-
Jews in oil indicated a more involving Jews and Catholics for juana for more than three years
managerial jobs. Over 25 additional
and more than half reported they
insurance companies will be in-
had used drugs before becoming
, vestigated this year.
hippies.
Oil executives are exerting pres-
Dr. Holmes was cautious in in-
sure to prevent their industry from dicating reasons why the young
becoming the next target of OFCC.
people had chosen a hippie life
The government has made plans
to look into oil but this might be style.
He said that information from
deferred and the priority given to !
the pilot study suggested that
the electronics or automotive in- :
many of them believed sincerely
dustry.
in the basic tenets of the hippie
Experience obtained in the insur- philosophy and that it was equally
,
ante probe would be utilized in evident
that "many use the move-
investigating otherindustries. ment as a cover for other, less
solicited
advice
from
the
OFCC has
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