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Amidst the post-convention soul-searching, Newsweek printed an examination of campus activism titled, "Campus Rebels: Who, Why, What." To some, student activists like SDS leader Mark Rudd symbolized the spirit of necessary change; to others, Abbie Hoffman's yippies and other activists were dangerous radicals...
...25th anniversary of '68 is a good time to reflect, calmly and philosophically, on these deep, underlying choices. On one hand we know that anti-authoritarianism for its own sake easily degenerates into a rude and unfocused defiance: Revolution, as Abbie Hoffman put it, "for the hell of it." Certainly '68 had its wretched excesses as well as its moments of glory: the personal tragedy of lives undone by drugs and sex, the heavy cost of riots and destruction. One might easily conclude that the ancient rules and hierarchies are there for a reason -- they've worked, more or less...
...their "hobby-level" interest in art, or how they apply art to their particular field of study. Rosemary Joyce, a specialist in Meso America, gave a talk on Chang dynasty pottery, and Agitprop's schedule for next year includes notables such as David Layzer on the Russian Constructivists, Stanley Hoffman on David's drawings of the coronation of Napoleon and Graham Boone on the Harlem Rennaissance...
Money is also set aside for physical sciences infrastructure, renovations for Hoffman Laboratory and the Geology Museums, and the establishment of a "Center for Global Change." The plan sets aside $15 million to help build "the largest university telescope in the southern hemisphere" in Chile with Cambridge University
...ordinance committee agreed on a modified version of Hoffman's task force which will include City Manager Robert W. Healy's input. The proposal should be deliberated again before the end of June...