The Howard Payne College Yellow Jacket (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, December 12, 1969 Page: 3 of 4
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THE YELLOW JACKET, December 12, 1969
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LIFE magazine finds that a
strange quiet has settled on
America's college campuses,
which only last spring were
boiling with noisy confronta-
tions.
In a sweeping survey in its
Dec. 12th issue, LIFE pre-
sents the views of undergradu-
ate writers and photographers
on campuses across the coun-
try. No one voice can sum up
the mood of the nation's eight
million college students. But
this comment by a University
of Colorado student comes
closest:
"The radicals are suffering
from a case of the blahs, the
liberals are frustrated and
there seems to be no move-
ment in any direction except
back toward oneself."
"The stillness is hardly se-
renity," LIFE comments. "The
hard issues—the draft, Viet-
nam, drugs—are still deeply
felt. Concern is too ingrained
for a return to the cool de-
tachment of the 1950s . . . And
if most students are pulling
back to re-examine their com-
mitments and tactics, at a few
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dangerously close to the sur-
face . . . The strategy of head-
on dissent, however success-
ful, proved to be too painful
to sustain."
Campus reports were writ-
ten from the University of
Wisconsin, University of Chi-
cago, Oberlin College, Smith
College, University of Cali-
fornia (Berkeley), University
of Texas, University of Miss-
issippi, San Francisco State,
and the University of Iowa.
Two general observations
surface in the LIFE article:
"Music is as pervasive on
campuses as hair or bell-bot-
toms" and "affection, person-
al and communal, is a key part
of the current college life-
style."
A sampling of the reports:
Wisconsin (by Joseph Mc-
Bride)—"Guilt seems to be a
campus disease, as evidenced
by the fact that fraternities
and sororities feel a need to
justify their activities by in-
volving themselves in con-
spicious charities . . . Much
of the hypertension on campus
stems from the university's
use of city riot police to break
up a sit-in againsft Dow
Chemical two years ago ...
Small wonder that there is a
growing exodus by couples
and groups to farmhouses in
the lovely rural communities
around Madison where living
is both cheap (as little as $75
a month) and peaceful."
Chicago (by Roger Black)—
"The radicals say the stu-
dents are apathetic, but they're
not; they're just students, in
a somewhat otherwordly alien-
ated way. University of Chi-
cago students tend to be is-
lands in themselves ... One
reason the football games this
fall-—the first since Robert
Maynard Hutchins banned the
game in 1939—meant a great
deal to us in that they were
the first glimmer we have
seen of a real community. We
felt very comfortable togeth-
er. We have a lot in common
and we came to feel, as a
crowd, that there are a great
number of other people in the
country who have a lot in com-
mon with us . . . We also share
a conviction that people must
love each other not only tp be
happy, but to survive. This is
so obvious to us it is a cliche.
But it is not obvious to every-
one or we would not be in
the fix we are in."
Oberlin (by David Eisner)
—"Oberlin in 1969 is not the
busily activist Oberlin of 1968.
The campus is quiet, the li-
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Registration
The Young Democrats are
beginning their last active
movement of the semester by
initiating a registration drive.
Posters will be the main
source of publicity. The pur-
pose of the drive is to en-
courage those of eligibility to
register to vote over the
Christmas holidays and to in-
sure the privilege and respons-
ibility of voting.
Many states prohibit the use
of poison sprays on blooming
fruit trees to protect the bees.
wade and Abbott
fore, and student power, at
least for the time being, is
dead."
Smith (by Rhoda Micocci)—
"Music is a kind of emotional
defiance of social convention
shorthand and if you would
understand what is going on
today on the campuses, you
could hardly do better than to
pay attention to the music
now being played there . . .
plaintive notes of Segovia's
guitar suggesting a peaceful
gentleness; or the words of
'Hair' ringing out an innocent
... Laura Nyro cries, 'Save
the people, save the country
and for some students this
meant: Go to Washington on
Nov. 15 . . . Classical music
has not been abandoned. 'Bach
fulfills a need for order, pre-
cision, clarity of tone,' said one
student . . . While much of tor
day's music is personal, much
also expresses an attitude that
is distinctively social in its
application. Music, in a way,
is holding us together today."
California (by Kathy White)
—"One local columnist claims
that 'the freaks rule the cam-
pus.' A spokesman for the
Young Americans for Freedom,
a right-wing organization, says
the silent majority runs the
campus. But the only apparent
ruler is the Frisbee . . . Fris-
bees are so ubiquitous, in fact,
that they have been banned
on campus by police as 'dan-
gerous and lethal weapons.'
That's the kind of place Berke-
ley is right now. The campus
is calm. But the scars of last
year's violence are still ap-
parent and much of the calm,
though partially the result of
apathy and studies, is also the
result of a kind of fear . . ."
Texas (by D. Kirk Hamilton)
—"The average student here
is still the well-scrubbed ado-
lescent he is expected to be,
and the University of Texas
still offers as dominant images
football, beer and Saturday
night fraternity dances. Few
innovative radical leaders are
to be found here because, they
have long since migrated to
centers of social change like
New York and California . . .
As on many other large cam-
puses, the mood here is anxi-
ous. But barring any major
administrative blunders, the
biggest concern of the stu-
dents is likely to remain
whether or not the Longhorns
can hold their number one
national ranking in football"
Mississippi (by Patsy Brum-
field)—"Football, good looks
and social life—those are the
things Ole Miss students say
are most important. And in
exactly that order . . . But
these are not the only things
Ole Miss thinks about. There
are also, from time to time,
political concerns. Only last
year a large demonsration
erupted after the defeat of a
referendum to legalize beer."
San Francisco State (by Da-
vid Noard) — "Although the
strike has passed, we do not
consider the events surround-
ing it to be just history. Be-
tween classes we sit on the
lawn in the sun and on the
benches in front of the cam-
pus, knowing that insight, like
life, will continue to grow.
And not least among those in-
sights is the fact that fear of
change far exceeds the fear
felt by those who want change.
We learned who was afraid of
whom."
Iowa (by Alan Lew) — "In
Iowa, where reticence is re-
garded as a leading industry,
the kids are matching their
elders silence for silence this
fall. But if anyone takes this
as a sign that their disaffec-
tion is waning, he had better
have another look . . . Re-
gardless of the decibel level,
however, no one here is in
the mood for surrender. The
action has simply moved und-
erground for a while. Or per-
haps it would be more ac-
curate to say that it has been
driven underground . . . Sil-
ence is the order of the day
—if not as a conscious tactic,
at least as a refuge. But it is
conspicious even in Iowa, and
not likely to last much long-
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