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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, January 26, 1989
Dean sees breakdown in social values, civility
by Michele Logan Kansan staff writer
There is a perceived breakdown in traditional moral and social values, the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences said yesterday.
James Muyksen spoke at a Uni
versity Forum at Ecumenical Christi
ian Ministries about teaching
humanities in the 1990s.
He said the humanities were suffering from a failure of confidence, coherence and the nerve to defend knowledge of philosophy, literature and arts.
"No one relishes being charged with cowardiness or wishes to be saddled with partial responsibility for a societal breakdown of traditional values," Muyskens said
Jan Valves, Royalty
But, he said, to pass the criticism
off as unworthy would be a grave
mistake.
He said that at times the nation behaved as though it were in danger of losing the moral constraints that made it possible to live as a community.
This behavior seemed more evident to Muyksens when he lived in New York City than in Lawrence, he said.
In New York, it is typical for 14- to 16-year-old girls to have babies, for newborn intensive care units to be filled with AIDS babies or for citizens to think nothing of bittering the city streets, he said.
But in Lawrence, the loss of civility and deceency is as close as a television set, Muyskens said.
The nation has witnessed a Yale man win the presidency through blatant disregard for intellectual integrity and fair play, all the while cynically calling for a kinder and gentler nation, Musksken said.
He said that people should be alarmed about the possibility of a breakdown of civility and should start looking for some common standards.
dards.
Critics hope that if everyone shares a body of literature, way of speaking, myths, metaphors and heroes, then a community can be formed based on common experiences and values.
"Without common standards and experiences, there is little hope of holding a diverse society together," he said.
Muyskens said.
Muyskens said critics thought that the humanities could be rescued, and if properly taught, uncover the common values needed to induce excellence of character.
"Humanities offer a golden opportunity to examine the aims and goals of our instruction and to take up the challenge of reconciling serious attention to character development with the need for an academic environment characterized by freedom and tolerance," he said.
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