The Michigan Daily-Thursday, September 4, 1980-Page 11-81- 'U' prof compares past and present students By GEOFFREY OLANS Student attitudes and social relation- hips at the University have undergone a pronounced transformation over the past three decades, according to Angus Campbell, University professor of psychology and sociology. "The '50s saw the crew-cut generation at Michigan," noted Cam- pbell. "They were conventional in their social attitudes and weren't raising ene on campus like following generations of students." The one-time director of the Institute fo'r Social Research (ISR), who has been associated with the Survey Research Center since its inception in 1946, added that students in the 1950s tended to marry and have children ealy. "They were not very politically invplved and like the generation before then they were anxious to get out of school and apply their knowledge to their respective careers," he said. "IN THE 60s the country experienced a profound change in many of its social v'alues and social relationships," Cam- pbell observed. "Vietnam created a great disturbance among young people and accounted for most of the campus unrest around the nation." He said all the turbulence tended to distract students from their studies. Political activism was ripe on campus and groups such as Students for Democratic Action were the order of the day. Prefacing his remark with a wide grin, Campbell acknowledged that the old student: image of the '50s of short cropped hair, tidy appearance and relative sobriety had given way to one of long hair, unkept attire and the widespread use of drugs. HE SAID THE counterculture movement gave birth to a spirit of non- conformity-"the spirit of doing your own thing''=that went beyond resistance to the war and still persists today among students, albeit in a more diluted form. Campbell described the 1970s as a period of healing from the traumas of the preceding decade. He acknowledged a conservative trend away from the radaical past among students, but believes that students of the '70s, as students today, are influen- ced by the same existential philosophy. "They've been led to believe that you make your own values in life and that you are what you make yourself," he' explained. CAMPBELL CONSIDERS this a disturbing way to live because it forces students to grapple with another element of instability and.uncertainty that they may not yet be mature enough to handle effectively. He feels that it was easier for students when they merely iccepted the values that society provided for them. According to Campbell, despite the fact that the '70s have witnessed a decline in political activity on campus, there has been progressively more student participation in committee ac- tivity and general University decisions than there used to be. "Now it's taken for granted that any committee that is involved in student life-even a committee to appoint a new University president-is going to have student representation." WHILE CAMPBELL REMAINS skeptical of the way in which students are chosen to represent the student body he is impressed by their respon- sible behavior. "I've seen students behave very well on those committees in the sense they take their roles seriously, they're thoughtful and they say what they want to and, not uncommonly, it has some in- fluence," he said.' One area in which great strides have been made, according to Campbell, is minority enrollment. "THERE IS A great deal more in- terracial contact among students than there ever was," he added. He recounted one ugly incident that took place only 35 years ago in which an associate of his was told by the Michigan Union management that his black housekeeper would not be allowed to have lunch in the hotel dining room. He said student attitudes at the time were no more emancipated than those of the University administration. When asked if the '50s and the '60s had any such colorful offbeat campus personalities like the seemingly om- nipresent Shaky Jake who walks about town somehow subsisting on his empty guitar case or the haranguing Doctor Diag who used to stand up on the Diag and deliver verbal torrents to passers- by, Campbell said he did not recall any. He did say that a small college town like Ann Arbor is bound to attract ec- centrics. WHILE THE POPULARITY of, fraternities on campus seems to be on the upsurge once again, Campbell said that frats came under a lot of criticism in the late '50s and later, as symbols of the establishment, the objects of scorn and derision for the counterculture. Present day students at the Univer- sity have heard the often repeated complaint of professors that students no longer know how to write. Campbell wonders if past generations of students could in fact write better if background and other such characteristics were controlled for. He also thinks that today's generation is at least one up on other generations in at least one' respect: "Maybe students have lost something in not being able to construct proper sentences or complete a phrase but they have gained something in the sen- se that they have more psychological insight than students were apt to have before. Students today are more familiar with concepts of personality, development and learning and inter- personal relationships." IN ONE LARGE way campus life has stood still over the past three decades. According to Campbell, students con- tinue to be as enthusiastic as they ever were towards varsity sports in general- and football in particular. Surprisingly, he said, Michigan football does not have the "live and die" character to it. 4 ,: i 9 '1 ., F k .. yI . S t ii 11 I .. Daily Photo by JIM KRUZ UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR of Psychology and Sociology Angus Campbell reflects on campus life over the past three decades. "In comparison to the way they go in Columbus, Ohio we are absolutely sedate," he noted. But even football at Michigan has not gone unaffected by change. Campbell said that a greater amount of liquor is consumed at games than ever before and that the passing up of girls is a relatively new occurence. "Yelling of obscenities is also A recent occurrence that would not have been heard prior to Vietnam," he said. North Campus sib I I At the hub of 'U' expansion By PAUL ENGSTROM gMost of what you have read has dealt with happenings around Central Cam- , but little has been written about thi most rapidly expanding part of the thiversity: North Campus. It is situated about a mile north of campus, , dozens of buildings-from the estheticaly-oriented setting of the music school, to the complex and technical structures housing the nuclear, automotive, and areospace ,ngineering labs are spread throughout the campus' Nestled anfg the trees, the brick Earl V. Moore School of Music Building barely emerges on the left as the Nor- thwood bus winds through Bonisteel Blvd. Designed by Eero Saarinen, the school houses "250 pianos, 12 pipe organs, 2 large rehearsal halls, a music library, practice and listening rooms, teaching studios, and faculty offices. Outside, the man-made pond and nature-made greenery provide a home for ducks and a lounge for artists. TO THE RIGHT, the glass and brick Art and Architecture Building houses the College of 'Architecture and Urban Planning and the School of Art. Inside, long corridors lead to administrative of- fices, north light studios, lecture halls and classrooms, darkrooms, the Slusser Gallery, and the lounge, an oasis for starving artists. Architecture students occupy the huge third-floor drafting room. Across the street, the North Campus Commons contains meeting rooms, a cafeteria, an art gallery, a "Ready- Teller" money machine, and a "U- Cellar" specializing in art supplies.. Up Murfin Rd. lie the North Campus Recreation Building (NCRB), Bursley Hall, and Vera Baits Housing. (The NCRB offers indoor sports facilities to registered students and "Facility User Pass" holders.) ACROSS FROM THE NCRB, Bursley Hall houses 1200 students, a cafeteria, a general store, a library, and a game room, among other facilities. Vera Baits Housing shelters upperclassmen and graduate students within a 10- building complex. There are no kitchen or dining facilities here, but students may purchase a meal ticket and eat at Bursley Hall. If you venture further Baits Drive curves toward the chalet-like Federick Sterns Building on Gilbert Court. The Sterns Building originally housed the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity until 1972. Today, as part of the School of Music, the building houses the Sterns Collec- tion of- Musical Instruments, the Eva Jessye Afro-American Music collec- tion, and musicology, music education, and music camp offices. The Chrysler Center rests upon a grassy mound to the right of the North Campus Commons. Used for "con- tinuing engineering education," the brick and fabricated panel faeade en- closed classrooms, conference rooms, lecture rooms, and an auditorium. Behind the Chrysler center, construc- tion continues on the Herbert H. Dow building. The Dow building will house the Departments of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering. THE INSTITUTE OF Science and Technology towers on the right as you continue up Bonisteel Blvd, Three in- terconnecting blond-brick structures house the Biophysics Research Division, the Great Lakes and Marine Waters Center, the Industrial Development Division, the Macro- molecular Research Center, and the Merit Computer Network offices. The Merit Network interconnects the University's central Amdahl 470v/7 computer with central computers at Michigan State University and Wayne State University. Behind the Institute is the Computing Center itself. The Center houses the Univesity's central computer and several input/output devices such as See NORTH, Page 15 iii v / /\ _,,,' ' 'l Save yourself the search. Just clip these handy phone facts and keep the numbers you need right at your fingertips p Is your social life dragon? Let these help you to a speedy recovery. 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