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...newest new Nixon has only been around for about seven months. It is important that we do try to understand him, for he is perhaps the worst Nixon of them all. He is the Nixon that has given us Cambodia, Kent State, and, this fall, the loudest and most terrifying election campaign in memory. He is the Nixon that represents a clear and present danger to our country and our lives...
Such conventional wisdom is eroded by the attention paid student radicals and is sometimes swept away entirely by dramatic events like the outpourings of campus protest following the U.S. intervention in Cambodia and the Kent and Jackson State student killings last spring. With the demonstrations came fervent pledges from thousands of students to work this fall for liberal and antiwar congressional candidates. The most heavily publicized and widely considered proposal was adopted by Princeton University, which rescheduled its semesters to give students two weeks off before the election for campaigning...
Corliss also cited the fact that Kingman Brewster, president of Yale, has called upon the alumni of the Yale Law School to support the Kent 25, who have "become a symbol of civil liberties under attack...
...willing to do a lot," he said, "but the Kent students were very anxious that whatever got started would be a student-run thing. We passed on the word about what the problems were and what kind of actions the Kent people were suggesting, but the students are going to have to take if from there. I just don't know...
...However, other schools are more active. For example, there was a rally at Tufts last Friday to support the Kent protests. Harvard had better look to its buttons...