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...York Nuclear Holocaust." (laughter). That's apropos of nothing we've been through a lot of decades tonight and I have the rather thankless task of talking about the decade that everybody here knows best, so I'm going to try to make this short and selective. There are a lot of things that can be said about The Crimson in the sixties and there are a lot of people in this room who are perfectly well equipped to say them so it anybody has any challenges I'm open to this. It seems to me that one thing that...
...person to take this kind of assignment. As he said I was Features Editor, which is a very traditional female role on the paper. I was not much of an activist and I never did anything very much to change the status quo, but once his persuasive southern charms (laughter) had talked me into getting up here because I should say that unlike Dave Halberstam who confided to me that he makes about a third of his living by giving speeches, (laughter) that was before his book sold 100,000 copies, but this is the first speech I've made...
...they didn't really bother us very much. When I was a freshman in 1964, Lamont Library was closed to women students, as of course it had been closed since the day it opened. When I was a sophomore, women could use Lamont, the building, but not the books (laughter), if they had section meetings there but only if they went in the back door and walked up the back stairs and weren't seen in the front of the building. Okay, where was The Crimson when this was going on? But more to my point, where were women...
...think might be able to tell us a little bit about things that did change very rapidly, to which Linda alluded. Jim Fallows was president of The Crimson in 1969-70. When I was comping fall of freshman year I remember being in awe of him at the time, (laughter). I still have a little bit, you may understand why when I tell you a little about him. The story goes, I'm not sure whether it's true or not, that when Jim came to The Crimson for the first comp meeting the building was very crowded...
...point briefly. When each of you was at The Crimson I'm sure that there was a theme that you talked about when you were sitting about in the offices, the Ku Klux Klan, or the wars, or the Ibis. For us it was the end of the world, (laughter). One illustration we always took to prove this general theory was the tremendous telescoping of time, how our brothers and sisters who were in high school we could hardly recognize; when they came to college, they were going to take the whole place over. And I think that the telescoping...