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                  <text>CAPTIVE MAIM
I IM A FREE SOCIETY
1973 SPRING SOCIAL SCIENCE SEMINAR»CASPER COLLEGE»DURHAM HALL»FEB. 22-23

�CAPTIVE MAN IN A FREE SOCIETY
(the illusion of freedom)

The Casper College Social Science Depart­
ment, in association with the Wyoming Com­
mittee for the Humanities, presents:

The 1973 Spring Social Science Seminar

February 22 &amp; 23, 1973

Casper College
Aley Fine Arts Center
Casper, Wyoming
82601

�CAPTIVE MAN IN A FREE SOCIETY
(the illusion of freedom)

PROGRAM

"New methods of controlling behavior now
emerging from the laboratory may soon add
an awe-inspiring power to enslave us all
with our own engineered consent."
BRECHER AND BRECHER
from Harpers Magazine, April 1961

THURSDAY, February 22, 1973
8:45 a.m.

Good Morning: A seminar
welcome by Dr. Tilghman
Aley, President,
Casper College

DURHAM
HALL
9:00 a.m.

"Behavior Control and
Social ResponsibilityRevisited"
A LECTURE by
LEONARD KRASNER,
Stony Brook, New York

DURHAM
HALL

10:00 a.m.

COFFEE AND DONUTS served in the lobby
adjoining Durham Hall

10:30 a.m.

PANEL DISCUSSIONS

DURHAM
HALL

A.

"Institutional Behavioral
Management"
LARS PETERSON
LEONARD KRASNER
Student moderator:
Lisa Cioc, Casper

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�THURSDAY - continued

10:30 a.m.
ROOM AD-298

B. "Psychology and the Courts"
CHARLES RODGERS
JAMES SINON
Student Moderator:
Sally Dayton, Cokeville

12:00 noon -1:30 p.m.

1:30 p.m.
DURHAM
HALL

LUNCH

"Psychology for the
Liberation of Man From
Controls"
A LECTURE by
SIDNEY JOURARD
Gainesville, Florida

2:30 p.m.

COFFEE AND DONUTSserved in the lobby
adjoining Durham Hall

3:00 p.m.

PANEL DISCUSSIONS

DURHAM
HALL

A. "Sense and Non-sense
About Learning
Disabilities"
DEAN KOHRS
MIRIAM KRASNER
ROBERT FOWLER
Student Moderator:
Ton Janz, Cheyenne

ROOM AD-298

B. "Religion: The Opiate
of the Masses?"
LESTER KINSOLVING
SIDNEY JOURARD
LARS PETERSON
Student Moderator:
Steve Kolar, Green River

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�THURSDAY - continued

5:00 p.m.

BREAK FOR DINNER
AT YOUR LEISURE

8:00 p.m.

"The Changing American
Character"
A LECTURE by
VANCE PACKARD
Fairfield County,
Connecticut

DURHAM
HALL

GOOD NIGHT

FRIDAY, February 23, 1973

"An experimental analysis shifts the
determination of behavior from autonomous
man to the environment .... Is man then
abolished? Certainly not as a species ....
He is indeed controlled by his environment .
. . . an environment largely of his own
making .... We have not yet seen what
man can make of man."
B. F. Skinner
Beyond Freedom and Dignity
197T

biographical material begins on page seven
-4-

�FRIDAY - continued
9:00 aim.

"The Reality of Relevance:
the dilemma of the schools
in a free society"
A LECTURE by
WILSON C. RILES
Sacramento, California

DURHAM
HALL

10:00 a.m.

COFFEE AND DONUTSserved in the lobby
adjoining Durham Hall

10:30 a.m.

PANEL DISCUSSIONS

DURHAM
HALL

A.

"Media: Check or
Checkmate?"
VANCE PACKARD
LESTER KINSOLVING
Student Moderator:
Ronald A. Johnston,
Thermopolis

ROOM AD-298

B.

"The Classroom as a Planned
Environment: the shape of
the future"
MIRIAM KRASNER
WILSON C. RILES
LEONARD KRASNER
Student Moderator:
Karen Dunning, Parkman

12:00 noon - 1:30 p.m.

LUNCH

biographical sketches begin on page six

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�FRIDAY - continued
1:30 p.m.

DURHAM
HALL

“Morality and the Press"
A LECTURE by
LESTER KINSOLVING
San Francisco, Calif.

2:30 p.m.

COFFEE AND DONUTS served in the lobby
adjoining Durham Hall

3:00 p.m.

THE CLOSING SEMINAR

DURHAM
HALL

"The Cultural Architects"

SIDNEY JOURARD, LESTER
KINSOLVING, VANCE PACKARD
LARS PETERSON, WILSON C.
RILES, CHARLES RODGERS
Student Moderator:
Ray Oltion, Story

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION

biographical sketches follow SIDNEY M. JOURARD, PhD

Gainesville. Fla.

On sabbatical from the University of
Florida, Jourard is currently in residence
at the United State International University,
San Diego, California, he spent the fall
semester 1972 aboard the S.S. Universe
Campus in a research capacity.
Jourard was born January 21, 1926. He
attained a doctorate at the State University

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�JOURARD - continued

of New York at Buffalo in 1953 after teaching
there from 1948-51. He attained both a BA
and an MA in Psychology at the University of
Toronto in 1947 and 1948.
He has been a professor at Emory Univ­
ersity, the University of Alabama Medical
School and has been at the University of
Florida since 1964.
REVEREND LESTER KINSOLVING

San Francisco

A syndicated columnist based at the San
Francisco Chronicle, Reverend Kinsolving is
cut from a long yardage of Episcopalian cloth.
His father was a chaplin at West Point and be­
fore his death, was Bishop of Arizona. An
Uncle was Bishop of Texas, his Grandfather
was a missionary biship in Brazil, his
great-Grandfather was a Pastor in Virginia,
and a distant cousin is currently Bishop of
New Mexico.
The one-time active pastor now writes a
syndicated column in 226 U.S. newspapers
and reaches about ten million readers each
week.
He is 45 years old.
DEAN KOHRS, PhD

Casper, Wyoming

Kohrs is the Clinical Director of the
Central Wyoming Counseling Center, Casper,
Wyoming.
He has served as director of the
Children's Bureau, Passaic, New Jersey.
Prior to that position he was an administrator
of counseling at the Kilmer Job Corps
Center, an industrial consulting psycholoaist
at Stevens Institute and at the Lyons Vet­
erans Psychiatric Hospital.
-7-

�LEONARD KRASNER, PhD

Stony Brook, New York

Currently Professor of Psychology and
Psychiatry at the State University of New
York at Stony Brook, Krasner received his
PhD from Columbia University. He is pre­
sently setting up a graduate and undergrad­
uate program in environmental design. His
most recent text (along with Ullman) is A
Psychological Approach to Abnormal BehavTor.
He has authored many article for Professional
Psycholgy Journals.

MIRIAM KRASNER, MA

Stony Brook, New York

Mrs. Krasner is a third grade teacher
in an elementary school at Stony Brook and is
presently involved in running an open corridor
program which involves 150 children in kinder­
garten through fifth grades. She received an
MA from the Teachers College at Columbia
University.
NOTE: Together Dr. and Mrs. Krasner have
published three papers on the classroom as a
planned environment. The most recent will
appear in the forthcoming, "Yearbook of the
National Society for the Study of Education,
1973."

ROBERT FOWLER, MD

Casper, Wyoming

Fowler earned both a BA and an MD from
the University of Utah, gaining the latter
degree in 1946. He served pediatric res­
idency at the University Hospitals in
Cleveland, Ohio.
Dr. Fowler is a Di pl ornate of the American
Board of Pediatrics and has served as assistant
clinical professor at the University of
Colorado.
He has been a pediatrician in Casper since
July 1952. A member of the Natrona School
District No. 1 board of education, he is
presently serving as treasurer.

�VANCE PACKARD, MS

Fairfield County, Connecticut

A native of Pennsylvania, with a master's
degree from Columbia University's Graduate
School of Journalism, Packard also did graduate
work in international economics at three
universities. He holds distinguished Alumni
Awards from both shools which he attended.
His first book, "The Hidden Persuaders,"
appeared in 1957 and quickly climbed to the
top of the nation's best seller lists. A
study in motivational research techniques,
it alerted the public to new methods of
"persuasion in depth" advertising.
Having published a book almost every year
since, his seventh book, "A Nation of
Strangers," concerns the nomadic American and
the affect of nomadism on the American life
style.

LARS P. PETERSON, Ed.D.

Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Born October 17, 1925, in Blekinge,
Sweden, Peterson is presently Chief of
Psychology Services and Chairman of Re­
search and Education at the Veteran's Hos­
pital, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
He holds a BA and an MA from the
University of Wyoming and an Ed. D. from
the University of Nebraska. Post doctoral
studies were accomplished at the University
of minnesota and at Indiana University.
He has published professional articles
in the following magazines:
"Mental
Hygiene", "Pacesetter", "Research in
Psychology" and "The American Journal of
Psychotherapy".

-9-

�DR. WILSON C. RILES

Sacramento, California

Chairman of President Nixon's Task Force on
Urban Education, Riles defeated the State
Superintendent of Public Instruction in one of
the most startling upsets in California's
political history.
In 1971 he became Calfornia's new Education Chief.
Married and the father of four children,
he was born in Alexandria, Louisiana in 1917.
He received his MA from Arizona State College
and an Honorary Doctorate of Law from
Pepperdine College.
He has served on President Johson's Task
Force on Urban Educational Opportunities,
the National Advisory Committee on the
Teacher Corps, and the NEA Task Force on
Urban Education
CHARLES W. RODGERS, PhD

Evanston, Wyoming

Dr. Rodgers is presently serving as
Director, Department of Psychological Ser­
vices at the Wyoming State Hospital,
Evanston. He is President elect of the
Wyoming Psychological Association and a
member of the American Psychological Ass­
ociation (divisions of Clinical Psychology
and Psychological Hypnosis.)
He is a lecturer in Psychology and an
instructor in "Theories of Personality"
at the University of Wyoming.
Rodgers has a BA in Physics from Hiram
College, Hiram, Ohio, 1966. He holds an
MA in Psychology and a PhD in Clinical Psy­
chology from the University of Wyoming.
Involved in therapy with individuals who,
through various channels, have come to live
in an institution, he performs psychological
evaluations of almost all referred by the
Wyoming Judicial system.
-10-

�JAMES E. SINON, JD

Casper, Wyoming

A native of Wyoming, Sinon is a
former police official of Natrona
County. He was the first County
Juvenile Probation Officer in the state
of Wyoming.
He is a 1960 graduate of Casper Col­
lege, has a BA from the University of
Wyoming in 1963 and completed a Juris
Doctorate at the same school in 1965.
He is a former instructor of law at
Casper College.
A former Deputy County Attorney,
Sinon is married, has two children and
is presently practicing law in Casper.

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�SEMINAR PLANNING COMMITTEE AND STUDENT PARTICIPANTS:
STEVE MORRIS
TOM JANZ
LISA CIOC
SHIRLEY DERMER

KAREN DUNNING
STEVE KOLAR
SALLY DAYTON
DEBRA FOSTER

RAY OLTION - Student Chairman
RON JOHNSTON - Publicity Chairman
BRUCE TOLLEFSON, PhD

-

Faculty Advisor

A special thank you to the Wyoming Committee
for the Humanities for providing a grant to make
this Social Science Seminar possible.

Our appreciation is also extended to the
administration and faculty of Casper College
for the continuing support of the concept and
reality of the annual Social Scence Seminar.

Program cover designed by Shirley Dermer

Thank you - Nora VanBurgh for the Library
displays.
- Casper College Coquettes for
the hospitality extended by
you in serving coffee and
donuts.

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