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The Amherst Student

Volume 152 • Issue 24

The Amherst Student

The Newspaper of Amherst College Since 1868

Monday, May 29, 2023

Ashwin Ramanathan

Contributing Writer

Number of Articles: 1

First Article: February 5, 2003

Latest Article: February 5, 2003

College environment stifles communication and learning

By Ashwin Ramanathan

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February 5, 2003

My point is that it’s a pity that culture has given us arbitrary rules to live by that in many cases, hinder comfort, efficiency and even mental health. I think that society’s stifling of human processes is responsible for many of the mental problems that people possess. Anthropologist James L. Peacock remarked of the Ndembu of Africa that mental healing simply required “the group that had caused the maladies by rejecting the patient” to accept him. I believe in the principle that if somebody d

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