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...heavily on the young to back him because of the war. The results have been somewhat disappointing. To be sure, his plan to grant general amnesty to all draft dodgers after the war ends gets cheers from college audiences; he went over so well at Illinois State University near Bloomington recently that the student band played Hail to the Chief twice. Yet in an October sampling of newly eligible voters from 17 to 23 only 5% named him as their first choice; he ranked behind Kennedy, Muskie, Humphrey and Lindsay...
Still, many stop-outs do better academically than their less-seasoned classmates, if only because they are a year older. One Illinois State psychology major, Doug Poag, dropped out to work on a prison-reform project. He has now joined the Bloomington, Ill., police force and started moonlighting at the university to prepare himself for law school. Students who stop out and return to class "are in school because they want to be, not because their daddy wants a doctor in the family," says Ward Dennis, associate dean of Columbia's School of General Studies. As Psychiatrist Lawrence Kubie...
...decked out in denim, and they are hopeful that they can influence the political system. There were more than 10,000 of them at a kickoff rally in Providence, a meager 2,500 in more conservative Indianapolis, then an impressive 25,000 last week in a sports arena in Bloomington, Minn. Their attitude was expressed in exaggerated form at Indianapolis in the plaint of Folk Singer Phil Ochs: "Here's to the land you've torn out the heart of;/Richard Nixon, find yourself another country to be part...