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...style politics has three basic ingredients: money, organization, and votes. This season the money and organization belong to the guys in the black hats. Nixon-Agnew and Co. have launched a frontal assault to wrest the third ingredient, votes, away from its traditional owner, the Democratic party. If they are successful it will mean a major swing to the right for the United States, with the precise results of that swing left to anyone's guess. One thing is clear, however; if the Nixon-Agnew candidates are successful, the results will not be very pleasant for the Vietnamese, black people...
...this, however, the University must remain open. Agnew claims that the universities are "staging grounds" for violent revolutionaries. Sure they are, just as they're staging grounds for corporate executives. The universities must exist to focus and encourage radical thought, but they must not be turned from the staging area into a practice ground. Radical bombings and attacks on the University from within have just this effect. Attacks on the University will only prevent undergraduate instruction from continuing; the institutional structure itself won't be terribly bothered. Reaction and legislative restrictions will shut down the functioning of the University...
Those University of Hartford students who sat through Thurmond's speech were probably a little awed by the transformation of their cafeteria. When they heard a dixiecrat proclaim that "Next to John C. Calhoun, Agnew's the best Vice-President the country's ever had" in their eastern college eating-place, it must have been discomforting. When a crowd of student-conservatives greeted the announcement with a standing ovation and drawled YAAAHOOOS, it was unquestionably sobering...
...determined activist. Foreign policy, he has said, is almost the sole business of the President. The running of the "free world" has not been left to Henry Kissinger. It would be more accurate to say that the running of the nation has been left to Spiro Agnew. Nixon, one must remember, had few pressing domestic duties as Vice-President and scarcely had any experience in public administration before 1968. He has spent the years since 1953 visiting foreign capitals and talking diplomacy-it is peculiar for an American politician to have made so many visits to Communist countries. His failure...
Automatic Degrees? Will they get it? At least half the freshmen need some remedial teaching before they can deal with college-level work. But no one yet knows whether the techniques that worked for SEEK students can be applied successfully on a mass scale. Many critics, including Spiro Agnew and some faculty members, fear that C.U.N.Y. risks turning itself into a college-level version of the failure-breeding high schools. Other skeptics contend that students who receive automatic college places may become embittered when they encounter persistent academic difficulties. If they then demand automatic degrees, they could devalue the credentials...