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Wednesday, February 9.1972
University Daily Kansan
Books:
Skinner, Laing Analytical
By KIRK MCALEXANDER
Kansas Reviewer
R. D. Laiang and B.F. Skinner: To the reader how initially they see timely and compellingly they see the respectable concerned for humanity which is remarkable in receptivity, which involves his readers in the hollowness of a sort of disappointment at life; so trivial
Lai's "Self and Others" (first published in 1961, revised in 1989 and issued in paperback only in 1995) explores capacities of persons to inhibit, control or liberate one another. With references to other forms of philosophy and literature, Lai discusses the particularly demanding task of knowing oneself and relating to others. The book also considers the regard the book as standing with those comparatively few efforts made in recent years to improve the relationship between persons in personal terms."
BUT THE MORE you treat persons on your personal terms the more you realize your inability to understand such things, either because you need them or because need not cause despair). The processes of a relation may be broken down into its components, which are then named and assigned to their owners. oblivious, will continue on its course. The blurb on the book's
SUA Lectures To Concern Presidency
Student Union Activities is planning a series of three or four lectures on the fundamental elements of the presidency, said Tim Treacy, Wilmette, III., chairman of the series of meetings.
The first lecture will be given late this month and Francis Heeler, vice-chancellor of the academic affairs, will be the speaker.
The purpose of the series is to give voters a criteria for voting, Treacy said.
Treacy said he hoped that by presenting students with a working knowledge of the day to day duties and responsibilities of the president, they would be more able to vote in a rational
Treacy said any students interested in helping to plan the series should call or come to the SUA office.
Austria Offers Scholarships
Scholarships will be awarded to advanced students of German by the Austrian Government for the 1972-73 academic year.
The grants are for advanced students of German who have a very good command of the language.
Applications should be made to the Austrian Institute, 11 E. 52d St., New York, N.Y., 10022, not later than March 1.
of this muck?''
back would have you believe that armed with this book (tucked next your heart) you can get out and there interact! Such things simply cannot be done—persons in relationship, when they happen to be a passable and sometimes interesting job of describing the relations between
BUT THIS IS the case only if you accept Skinner's basis or preference. It is quite true that the difference of previous experience, I choose because, because, because I reject the difference because, because Various factors (to the
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persons. But his subject is beyond him. It will not be named; it will not be captured.
What better time and place,
then, than here and now for Mr.
Skinner's His "Beyond Freedom
and Dignity" book. By the
pages, you find yourself in a
behavioristic utopia with all your
footprints brushed away and the
pebbles you use so carefully dropped
from your desk or back up. As one
amused student cried: "How do I get out
behaviorist 'contingencies') devariously influence and control my behavior. All of his work has contributed to the realtory tedious, howlous
For it is easy to disagree with Skinner's value judgments, and given the improvable nature of human behavior and behavior, you might construct an alternative theory of man as an inherently creature person and is acted upon. The contingencies of reinforcement
are myriad—limitless actually—and they will always alowstrip the effort to understand them and to manipulate them. Perhaps that alone is man's one claim to the mystery, to the memory, so long sung and laided. To the literatures of freedom and dignity—that the contingencies in our behavior are so limitless, whatever it is a pretty futile pursuit. Neither study nor control mysteries of life.
Skinner maintains that today's world is in desperate need of extensive control though he cannot prove such a point. Yes, he can. But we portrayed by Causus in "The Myth of Sisyphus," is preferable to the unimaginably satisfied and mundane possibilities to which he has led us by the book's last chapter. And we rock, thank you, up you hill. But then I've never thought much of heaven either.
Music was all we had left of Janis Joplin. But now there's something more. Her friend, David Dalton, has written a dynamite book about her life. With photographs of Janis —backstage, onstage, flying high, and doubled over in pain. With articles by the people who knew her best. And sheet music of her greatest songs.
Tucked inside this book is something very special. A recording nobody ever heard before. Of Janis singing and rapping with her friends.
When you read Janis, you'll know why you'll never forget her.
Written and edited by David Dalton
$4.95 paperback, now at your bookstore
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