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...Babbs and I fly south to ask our incarcerated editor a few probing questions. I confess I had some reservations. The famous professor had always been more a distant phenomenon than a close friend. Previous attempts at encounters had always seemed jinxed. In the summer of '63, my family and friends were booked for a high-level seminar with Leary and Richard Alpert at the International Foundation for Internal Freedom's paradise in Zihuatanejo. As we bustled through San Francisco Airport to our Mexicana flight, we saw the headline: DOPE DOCTORS ARRESTED AT MEXICO MANSION. So much for paradise...
...forced to do much self-reflection after reading Elizabeth T. Bangs' "Perspectives" editorial ("Put A Little Class Back in Our Lives") in the April 1 Crimson. I must confess, I am one of those that would embarrass her, for if I were to go to a Hasty Pudding production I would probably do so in an "unrefined" pair of jeans and a t-shirt...
...ashamed to confess it," Barker said. "I think it's too much, too glorious, but the answer is we couldn't resist...
...reject any atavistic responsibility for my ancestors' repugnant acts. I am sorry for slavery like I am sorry for the Holocaust (no family connections there). I must confess feeling closer to the experience of slavery because I have long known that this is part of my national and personal history, whereas the Holocaust was very foreign to this Southerner who knew no Jews until age 12. But I will not bear this burden; I was born with original sin in general, not the sin of slavery in particular. Some descendants of slaves may insist upon internalizing the pain of slavery...
Only those registered as Republicans in New Hampshire are eligible to vote. On a campus where some students confess they have never met anyone who legally resides in the Granite State, it is not surprising to see a low level of student involvement in this year's campaigns...