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...shopping centers, on city street corners, in village squares, at campus rallies, with the wind whipping his hair and the venturesome plucking at his clothes, Kennedy has had a difficult time getting across philosophy and pro-rams. In more formal settings and quiet interviews, he has been relatively specific (see box). In Indiana and Nebraska, perhaps fearing a backlash, he emphasized law and order to white audiences?but never failed to mention Negro needs as well. Nor does he shrink from challenging an audience. On campus after campus he has called for draft reform and an end to student deferments...
...Johnson-he has 35 honorary doctorates-has yet to delineate his future role at the university. However, despite campus peace demonstrations and anti-Administration rallies, the prospect of learning government's inner workings from the maestro has already excited students. "I'd jump at the chance to have the President as a professor," says Senior Annette Bingham, a government major. "His experience in government would be invaluable to almost any student," allows Junior Larry Upshaw, who opposes Johnson on Viet Nam. The sentiment, however, is not universal. "If Lyndon Johnson came here to teach government," snirted a coed...
...week, were deliberately "seeking a confrontation with the university." Thus Truman seemed to support the widespread notion that the wave of recent demonstrations and strikes at Columbia were all part of a conscious conspiracy. That is unlikely. S.D.S., which has played an active role in most of the U.S. campus uprisings, certainly believes in all sorts of radical confrontation, but conspiracy is not really its game. If anything, it is an organization whose members shy away from organization...
...Oberlin College, where no national officer has paid a visit in more than two years, the local chapter is a dispirited band of 35 students. The group has all but melded into the Oberlin Resistance, a broader-based organization whose protests recently prevented Navy recruiters from interviewing on campus...
...said that the scheme was "an ingenious way of saying to students that we take the issue and them seriously." To have barred Dow would have been untenably selective, Moise argued, but he said that by voting down the resolution the Faculty "would be saying that who comes on campus is none of our business...