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^-THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS / jy/ssrcf mm \ T Lunch 11:30-3:30 Mon-Fri Shishkabobs with Fresh Vegetables Rice, Salad 3758 Franklin Blvd. 2 Meals Each Day Veqetanan Meat Dishes $1,25 51.50 Dinner \ 5:30-9:30 7 days a week A Different Entree Nightly Lamb, Chicken & Beef Homoss — Arabian Dessert — — - - -'-„J m Last |Summer 150 Science 8:30 Friday •1.00 Sponsored by the Rally Squad University professor gets national health fellowship Norman Sundberg remembers that when he was a child on a farm in Nebraska, neighbors looked after the family of men tally retarded persons who lived nearby. Today Sundberg is a professor of psychology at the Unversity who is worried about the atomization and alienation he sees in American communities. “Many would say the country is going through a severe slump in morale,” he says. On July 1, Sundberg will step down from the deanship of the VVallace School of Community Service and Public Affairs to take a special research fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health and later spend a few months in India. —As an NIMH Fellow, he will be studying “what it is about certain communities that fosters mental well-being and what destroys it.” “There was a sense of com munity and of close relationships among people in that rural community in Nebraska that’s lacking today,” he explains. “Yet I don’t think people are different today. We’ve just become very temporary in many of our associations, as we move from one city to another. And you can’t have that sense of people looking out for each other in a larger community unless it’s organized in a different way.” Carnival' • Theatre Butterflies Are Free Jurr 21, 29, 30, July 1 ON CAMPUS UNDER THE TENT Tlcht» 6R6-4191 Norman Sundberg The problem, as he sees it, requires an overall view, taking into consideration not only psychological factors, but sociological, political and public administration concepts too. Warnings “There are enormous needs in this country, but there are enormous resources, too. It’s a matter of bringing them together,” says Sundberg. The psychologist notes a trend away from institutionalization, but warns that sending people home from mental hospitals may be worse for them if there isn’t something in the community for them to relate to. “Another problem is that traditional institutions like the church are less of a community force than they used to be,” he CAMPUS SHOE SCENE A buckle, a thong, a toe holder ... all in one The sole is wood, the insole aoft and cushiony. And it’s priced just right for summer fun, at only 7.99. Many other sandals and shoes DRASTICALLY REDUCED WOOD points out. “We have to strengthen old ones or develop other institutions.” Sundberg admits he doesn’t have the answers. He calls at tention to the inscription from Thomas Condon just inside the entrance of an old building on campus, “I believe in in spiration—now.” Learning experience “My fellowship is not a project or a piece of research,” he notes. “It’s a learning experience for me. I want to keep my eyes and ears and thoughts open while I learn, partly with a field study involving four communities (as yet unnamed).” In January 1973, Sundberg will take leave from the NIMH Fellowship to return to India as a lecturer-consultant for the U.S. Educational Foundation there, the same role he held in 1965-66 in India. His visit to India is being made possible by a Fulbright-Hays award, as was the earlier one. Sundberg will be working with the Foundation’s Student Ser vices program, helping Indian universities develop services such as advising, counseling, community projects, work study (field instruction) activities, and general administration and program development. Similarities Working out of Fulbright House in New Delhi, he will consult at universities and conduct workshops in various universities throughout India F'or Sundberg, there are im portant similarities between his work in universities in India and his community mental health study in America. Naslund may OK drug analysis today Approval for a proposed Lane County drug analysis project may be given today by the county's district attorney Robert Naslund Naslund and Mark Miller, director of the ASUO Drug In formation Center will meet at 3 p m today concerning possible approval of the project, ac cording to Miller The project would provide chemical analysis of illegal street samples of dangerous drugs If approved, under Miller’s plans, the analysis would be done in University labs, supervised by the chemistry department, and the information let out through county media
