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THIS WAS the year that students brought the war back home to the campus. In a swirling mass of identities, we became Vietcong and then blacks and then students again. And it happened all over--not just at Berkeley and Harvard, but at Ohio University and the University of Hawaii. Suddenly, students became activists. They did things. They took over buildings and held deans captive; they shut down universities and they bled...
Simon James is not really so new. The report of the Muscatine Committee at Berkeley two years ago describes him fairly well, even though the committee's understanding of the depth of his feeling is hopelessly inadequate...
...difference between Berkeley and Columbia is quantity not quality. The feelings are the same, but this year more people have them, and they are deeper. The reason for this is the self-destructive bent of Establishment liberalism. Throughout the year, the government and the universities have managed to "radicalize" large numbers of students, to turn cool liberals into hot radicals...
...these values, students sometimes act as if they had discovered justice and love. They also ignore the reality that undergraduates throughout history have always had ideals?some of which have been fulfilled by adult society. Condemnation of their elders occasionally comes too easily for the young today?witness the Berkeley coed who glibly condemns men who "sell their soul for higher salaries, then sink into suburbia, where the deepest thing they read is TV Guide...
...come out here to me, and they would never allow me to come inside to them." McGuire punched through his "academic bag" last December. "I suddenly realized," he explains, "that I had not made a single friend in four years." He broke through by taking "sensitivity training" courses at Berkeley's Newman :iub Center and California's Esalen Institute. The way to change society, he now feels, is "to subvert it from the inside with the power of love and caring." He thus considers the hippies ineffective for dropping out, the activists wrong for "alienating the older generation from...