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Why Are the Students Unhappy? (1966-06-27)

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Student unrest was not yet at its most virulent, but many campuses had seen sit-ins and other disruptions. WFB posits that a chief cause of the problems is adult unwillingness to enforce discipline. Mr. Bikel, who had grown up in a kibbutz in Israel but quickly rebelled against its strictures, -posits that the younger generation must be left free to develop its own values-even if these do not include what the older generation would call civility. TB: "Do you really think that we live in the kind of an age where ... a parent can obstinately cling to the belief that the values of today are not substantially different from the values of yesterday?" WFB: "But the parents are right." TB: "I knew that you would say that."

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WOR-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.)

Subjects

public broadcasting, AAPB, William F. Buckley Jr., Theodore Bikel, Stanford University, student movements, campus unrest, generational conflict, kibbutz, educational philosophy, civil disobedience, student activism, social values, academic discipline, academic administration

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