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...this is not a wholly vocational class. In fact, it is a reasonably socially aware class. Says Paul Ginsberg, dean of students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison: "They are not callous. They are showing their concern and involvement in often less conspicuous ways." At Wisconsin a tutoring program for disadvantaged students has been besieged by volunteers. Students at Emory University organized a service to send some 400 volunteers into the Atlanta community to help the elderly and handicapped. Among class members there appears to be a rich sense of camaraderie, despite the intense competition. Says Emory...
Greening of Ginsberg...
...article on Allen Ginsberg's appearance at Columbia University described the reading of Howl as a hoot [Dec. 7]. I'm sure that Ginsberg and many other people realize that excesses took place in the late '60s and find some humor in them. But Reporter Henry apparently views this humor with a disparaging slant that induces readers to avoid the valid social questions arising from those turbulent times. These issues are what Howl is all about...
...Allen Ginsberg sounds as though he is trying to rescue himself from his own emptiness. It is a shame when the mind of a man of his caliber becomes confused and resorts to making a mockery of the accomplishments of himself and his peers. The ultimate goal of dissent is change, not destruction. The once sprightly spirit of this "visionary" is dead. Jay E. Newcomb Lafayette...
...Europe, where 100,000 Prague youths once elected Ginsberg King of the May, the young are once again marching against war. On campuses there are teach-ins about the threat of nuclear holocaust. But this night, at this Columbia campus, sartorially and spiritually the most volatile and un-Ivy of the Ivy League, Allen Ginsberg is chatting, singing, wearing a necktie and making his howl a thigh-slapping hoot. His last words are prophetic, but not in the stirring way of the years gone by. He plays a worn squeeze-box and sings: "Meditate on emptiness, 'cause that...