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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, November 21, 1968
Psychiatrist sees society as vacuum
BALDWIN CITY-A Viennese psychiatrist and neurologist yesterday shot barbs at the vacuum of today's society while finding both virtue and fault in persons protesting the status quo.
Viktor Frankl spoke to a standing-room-only crowd at Baker University's Rice Memorial Auditorium. He appeared under the Paul 'Dana Bartlett Memorial Lectureship.
"The human situation has become an existential vacuum." Frankl said. "Unlike animals, man is not told by drives what he must do and he is no longer told by tradition and values what he should do. More and more, he is out to do just what others are doing—and that is conformism.
"Being human beings means reaching out for a meaning to fulfill oneself or for another human being to encounter," Franklin said. "The sense of meaning is self-transcending and provides a sustaining base for living."
Protest movements, he said, show a sense of responsibility that recently has made itself known. However, he criticized protesters for always campaigning against things instead of fighting for a cause.
"There is so much to fight against," Frankl said, noting that this approach so prevalent among protest movement can cause frustration among its participants.
Frankl cited a study made in Prague, Czechoslovakia, indicating that increasing political involvement by students has increased the degree of existential frustration and feelings of meaning-
Persons seeking meaningful experiences through drugs or sex, Frankl said, find only subjective, self-defeating experiences.
"Acid heads . . . no longer care for the real meanings out there in the real world," he said.
KUOK marathon scheduled Friday
KUOK radio will broadcast its first marathon of the year from Ellsworth Hall beginning at 9 a.m. Friday.
Promotions director, Phil Higdon, Prairie Village senior, said all broadcasting will originate from Ellsworth Hall until midnight Sunday.
Programming will consist entirely of rock music and regular news braodcasts. "We want lots of requests," Higdon said.
Listeners will be offered prizes, such as food, incense candles, leather watchbands and records, furnished by downtown merchants.
The 63-hour length of the marathon is scheduled because KUOK operates on a 630-megahertz broadcast frequency—"radio 63" in disc jockey jargon.
Higdon said the marathon is a promotion stunt intended to make students aware of the station. Advertisers and businesses contributing prizes will benefit through public relations, he added.
KUOK will probably hold another marathon in one of the residence hauls before the end of this semester, Higdon said, McCollum and Naismith Halls hosted similar marathons last year.
Dave Winegardner, Atchison senior and program director, and Bob Newton, Tulsa, Okla., junior and operations manager, organized the marathon. Rich Schaffer, Hutchinson junior, is station manager.
KUOK is a student training station which broadcasts for an average of 18 hours a day through an electrical hook-up from studios in Hoch Auditorium to the University residence halls and Naismith Hall.
Higdon said the station recently expanded programming to reach Sigma Chi and Lambda Chi Alpha fraternities. "Hopefully we will reach four more Greek houses by the end of the semester," he said.
"Sex in human beings must be human sex. It is human sex only if it is the expression of one's love . . . rather than a subhuman, impersonal, depersonalized pleasure."
The Viennese psychotherapist is the originator of logotherapy, an existential approach to psychotherapy. He has authored 16 books on logotherapy, a theory developed while a Nazi concentration camp prisoner during World War II.
In the camp Frankl studied his fellow prisoners, noting those who lost their will to live and those who did not. Later, he theorized that the prisoners who retained their desire for survival felt a sense of meaning for their lives.
Frankl is a professor of psychiatry and neurology at the University of Vienna, president of the Austrian Medical society for Psychotherapy and director of neurology at Vienna's Poliklinik Hospital.
He is scheduled to speak again tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m. at Unity Village, Lee's Summit, Mo.
Kennedy children visit grave sites of RFK and JFK
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., accompanied by seven Kennedy children, visited the grave of Robert F. Kennedy yesterday morning on the 43rd anniversary
of the assassinated senator's birth.
Although the temperature was in the 30s, the Massachusetts senator wore no coat. He kneeled briefly at the simple
grave of Robert F. Kennedy and then, for a few minutes, at the grave of John F. Kennedy. Tomorrow is the fifth anniversary of the late President's assassination.
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