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The aimlessly running-
Continued from page 1 one place of salvation; but the possibilities of salvation, again, are as numerous as all the places of refuge."
And Dr. Sydney Schroeder, KU's mental health center's psychiatrist said, "Some lack a sense of identity and belonging.
And, as that Episcopal minister said, "I look within and I see very little other than pain or loneliness — I choose to create a value because I choose to create it."
"We all need to feel that we belong somewhere. But we don't need to think that just because we have workable standards for ourselves they're the ultimate truth."
AND IF THE STUDENT locks within and sees very little other than pain or loneliness, or, as Conrad wrote, "the darkness of the heart," he will probably look without and attempt to find some suitable answer.
If he looks in one direction he finds one answer and in another direction, another answer. He is caught in the maze essayist E. B. White analyzed in "The Doctor."
So, if the student then tries to find the standards he will assume, he may, for the most part look within.
And, again, comes the identity crisis.
"Now about those rats, he kept saying to himself. He meant the rats that the Professor had driven crazy by forcing them to deal with problems which were beyond the scope of rats, the insoluble problems. He meant the rats that had been trained to jump at the square card with the circle in the middle, and the card (because it was something it wasn't) would give way and let the rat into a place where the food was, but then one day it would be a trick played on the rat, and the card would be changed and the rat would jump but the card wouldn't give way, and the rat would jump but the card wouldn't give way, and it was an impossible situation (for a rat) and the rat would go insane...
"ALL HIS LIFE he had been confronted by situations which were incapable of being solved. . . First they would teach you the prayers and the Psalms, and that would be the right door . . . and the long sweet words with the holy sound, and that would be the one to jump at. . .
" . . . the door they substituted
. . . the one with the equation on
it and the picture of the amoeba
reproducing itself by division. Or
the one with the photostatic copy
of the check for thirty-two dollars
and fifty cents. . . "
And aimless and frustrating as that may sound, it is not as frustrating as not having a single identity and jumping at all the doors simultaneously.
KU graduate of journalism, 1946, Loren C. King, is the new director of information and education of the State Geological Survey at KU. He will also teach a class in journalism next year.
Loren King to be a new instructor in journalism
King, a native of Liberal, has for several years been editor of the Mid-American Oil and Gas Reporter in Wichita. He was also oil editor of the Wichita Eagle for four years, and served on various newspapers in the Southwest.
The former director, Mrs. Grace Muilenburg, took a position with the University of Missouri.
This is what the Cenadian minister means when he suggests that the student uncertain of his identity adheres to the reigning ethic, being pious for his minister, loving knowledge for its own sake for his instructor and adopting a quasi-"Playboy" philosophy with his peers.
Fr. Downey considers such fit- into-the-group morality the mark of a hollow man.
"THE FULLY HUMAN PERSON," he says, "is one who reaches a state of self-identity, if you will, in which the judgment of his peers is not the controlling factor. "He rises above this, and, the way I read history and literature, it seems to me that every time the person who is regarded with the greatest admiration and respect is the one who can do this."
But with technological progress propelling man faster than ever before, it becomes more difficult. "Society is changing faster," said Howard Kahane, assistant professor of philosophy and sometimes instructor in Ethics, "And, as any point of society changes the standards of society change. So people who look to society don't get a clear answer and are perplexed."
But Kahane's echo of Camus' Conqueror's observations didn't stop Kahane from devising an ethical basis for himself. Nor did it stop the Conqueror.
"I HAVE NOT MANY opinions," Camus had him say. "At the end of a life man notices that he has spent years becoming sure of a single truth. But a single truth, if it is obvious, is enough to guide an existence."
And that is what the commitment is for, to guide an existence. And the single truth becomes obvious when a man decides who and what he is.
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