Monkey Movement

Two advances in higher education and research have come to my attention. A news item reports that chimpanzees in Oklahoma are now communicating by sign language, grunts, moans and screams. This development may be of great help in understanding the workings of the student mind. I have also learned of the findings of a multimilliondollar study of student vocabularies. It seems the words “is,” “was,” and “the” are in high usage.

In short, we have discovered that the gap between monkey and man is narrowing in favor of the monkeys. There is a great need for American students to learn more meaningful and relevant forms of communication. Thanks to the work of encounter groups, some students are already learning to communicate their innermost feelings by grunts, screams and moans, thus breaking out of the sterile orientations of the students of the Fifties who seldom could be aroused to such heights of human expression. Tim Leary, an insightful student of the human mind, has pointed out the humanizing effects of mindexpanding drugs. The great depth of social concern of today’s students has been lauded by the New York Times, the National Council of Churches and U Thant. These developments should not, however, obscure the peril of the language gap.

RC

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Roger B. Canfield

Two advances in higher education and research have come to my attention. A news item reports that chimpanzees in Oklahoma are now communicating by sign language, grunts, moans and screams. This development may be of great help in understanding the workings of the student mind. I have also learned of the findings of a multimilliondollar study of student vocabularies. It seems the words “is,” “was,” and “the” are in high usage.

In short, we have discovered that the gap between monkey and man is narrowing in favor of the monkeys. There is a great need for American students to learn more meaningful and relevant forms of communication. Thanks to the work of encounter groups, some students are already learning to communicate their innermost feelings by grunts, screams and moans, thus breaking out of the sterile orientations of the students of the Fifties who seldom could be aroused to such heights of human expression. Tim Leary, an insightful student of the human mind, has pointed out the humanizing effects of mindexpanding drugs. The great depth of social concern of today’s students has been lauded by the New York Times, the National Council of Churches and U Thant. These developments should not, however, obscure the peril of the language gap.