The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, December 17, 1954 Page: 8 of 8
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THE THRESHER
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1984
Professor Hudson Studies Near East
In Psychology Department Project
By SCOTT CLARK
The psychology department of Rice is now engaged in a
project of international significance. The project is the "baby"
of Professor Bradford B. Hudson, but he is working with psy-
chologists and sociologists in the Near-East and in other schools
in this country. The project is a study of the psychological con-
flicts of adolescents in the,
countries of the Near-East and|are having American adolescents fill
out questionnaires similar to those
in the United States. It is also
an attempt to discover how much of
a disruptive influence Western cul-
ture has on Moslem culture.
The conclusions will be based on
the contents of thousands of ques-
tionnaires which will have been
filled out by young people of the
United States, Egypt, Lebanon, Sy-
ria, Iraq, and Jordan. These ques-
tionnaires ask about restrictions
placed upon adolescents by parents,
the attitude of the adolescents to-
ward these restrictions, the amount
and type of entertainment received
by the adolescents and their parents,
the education received by the parents
and the education likely to be re-
ceived by the adolescents, and the
attitudes of the adolescents toward
the traditional viewpoints of their
culture.
The expenses of the project are
being paid from a grant of $75,000
by the Ford Foundation. This grant
was to cover the period from the
summer of 1953 to the summer of
1955.
Dr. Hud son has travelled consid-
erably in connection with the study.
He has made trips to the Near East
in each of the past three summers
and last winter. A't the Thresher
deadline, he planned to fly to Cairo
via Rome either yesterday or to-
morrow. While there he will confer
with associates from Cairo, Beirut,
Baghdad, and Aleppo. He will re-
turn to Rice in time for the second
week of classes in January.
Foreign schools represented in the
program by faculty members are:
American University of Beirut, Bei-
rut College for Women, Aleppo
School for Boys, Higher Teachers
College of Baghdad, Ibrahim Uni-
versity of Cairo, American Univer-
sity of Cairo, and 'Fouad University
of Cairo. Schools assisting Rice in
the American phase of the project
are the University of California,
Cornell, and Yale.
The American schools mentioned
given to the foreign students. A
comparison will be made between
the attitudes and adjustments of the
American students and those of the
Near-Eastern students.
The questionnaire contains 126
questions, mostly multiple-choice.
When a student completes a ques-
tionnaire, the answers he has given'
are transferred to an answer sheet.
Several IBM cards are punched to
record the answers on this sheet. By
using the card-sorter in the psychol-
ogy department Dr. Hudson and his
staff can compare the answers giv-
en by people in similar categories
as to religion, income, education, etc.
The essence of the study is well-
expressed by Dr. Hudson in a bro-
chure on the project, where he says:
"Even the casual visitor to the
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Near East realizes at once that he
is observing a people in transition.
Economically, politically and ideo-
logically the old and settled ways of
the Arab peoples are being disrupt-
ed by influences from outside. The
result is confusion, instability, and
growing tension. Cultural change is
generating cultural conflict. If the
people of the West are to aid the
people of the East in the search for
solutions that will be acceptable, it
is clearly imperative that the prob-
lems of the Arab peoples be better
understood. This presents a challenge
to all the social sciences, including
psychology. The task of the social
scientist is not merely to contribute
technical services that will facilitate
the solution of specific practical
problems, but, more importantly, to
search for the fundamental princi-
ples that govern human behavior in
all its social and material contexts.
Not until we have a genuine science
of social living shall we be able to
deal rationally with the causes of
human conflict."
FUND TO BE COLLECTED
TO HONOR MR. BEN BREWER
Rice Institute lost one of its most
devoted friends through the untime-
ly death of Mr. Ben E. Brewer on
December 2.
Mr. Brewer, who graduated from
Rice in 1927, is survived by his
wife Elda Diedrieh Brewer, who
graduated from Rice in 1930; a
daughter, Chris; and two. sons—
Ben, a senior at Rice this year, and
Paul Brewer, aged 10.
' Mr. Brewer was always active in
Rice organizations and interested
in every phase of Rice activities.
He was a member of the Interna-
tional Discussions Group at Rice and
was president in 1927. He worked
on the Thresher staff and also let-
tered in tennis while an undergrad-
uate.
Always devoted to his school, Mr.
Brewer served in the Alumni Ex-
ecutive Organizati6n and was at the
time of his death treasurer of the
man of the 1954-55 Budget Com-
Alumni Association. He was chair-
mittee and a member of the Owl
Club. Mr. Brewer's co-workers
summed up his contributions as an
alumnus by saying, "Ben was one
of those rare people who always
came through when you asked them
of our most active members and
for help of any kind. He was one
his death is a real loss to Rice." ^
In addition to his keen interest
m and for Rice as an alumnus,
Br.- Brewer worked toward youth
and community betterment in vari-
ous fields. Y. M. C. A. was one of
his special concerns. As the South-
west Branch Y. M. C. A. is cur-
rently completing plans for a build-
ing for this area, friends of Mr.
Brewer felt that a memorial in
this Y. M. C. A. building would
be a most fitting monument to
Mr. Brewer's work and interests.
Anyone wishing to contribute to
this memorial should send their do-
nations to the Brewer Memorial
Fund in care of Mr. Charles Web-
ster at the Southwest Branch Y- M.
C. A. or to Mr. L. M. Armer of the
National Bank of Commerce.
Owlook...
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Other first round pairings include
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