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...water now, roosting places for seagulls and shadow sanctuaries for schools of fish. In July and August, vacationers swell the town's population of 340 to ten times that; the rest of the year Arromanches lives with memory. A few miles down the coast, at the Pointe du Hoc, a forbiddingly steep promontory scaled by American Rangers in a daring attack, bomb and shell craters and broken blockhouses testify to the fierceness of the battle...
...group of seniors, calling itself the Ad Hoc Committee on Commencement, is organizing a protest movement for commencement which could include a walkout from graduation exercises, withholding class gifts, and withholding contributions from the College...
...group" of 19-year-olds and draw from its ranks. Birth dates would determine the order of priority, but they would be arranged randomly instead of chronologically. A "Selective Service year" would be constructed annually. It could begin with any date, say Oct. 17, followed by other ad hoc choices: Jan. 4, July 20, April 27 and so on. The 365 dates would probably be drawn from a fishbowl, as were the numbers of the first draftees in World War II. Young men born on the first date in the scrambled year would be the first to face induction...
Kunen's wit captures this shapeless but intense anger very lucidly, and while his book is far from the last word on radicals, it is as sharp a statement of radical disgust with liberals as one can hope to find. With great glee, Kunen relates second-hand The Ad Hoc Faculty Sandwich Decision -- a scenario in which votes have been taken, dissident factions reconciled and the body has determined how it will mediate the battle between jocks blocking off the entrance to an occupied building and any protestors trying to pass in food. Kunen discovers the trouble with the liberals...
...will still be followed in the case of the Afro-American Rosovsky report and the modification accepted by the faculty on April 22 is not the participation of students in recommending candidates for appointment, but their ability to make recommendations directly to the administration for consideration by the ad hoc committee instead of filtering them through an intermediary faculty committee...