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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...understood in terms of a single motivation like risk taking. Blaine made no mention of the other functions drugs can fill-including the fact that taking drugs can be enjoyable. It's also hard to figure out how he came up with "fast driving" as an integral part of today's youth culture, and he must realize that most of the risk has been taken out of "irresponsible sexual behavior...
...most helpful viewpoint expressed by Blaine was that a large part of student unrest occurs because "the nature of the college population has changed and yet the colleges have not changed to meet the different kinds of needs which this new type of population comes with." The percentage of high school students who go on to college, Blaine pointed out, has jumped from 10 to 55 in the last 15 years. As a result, "fewer students are intellectually curious, scholarly, academic types . . . . More are . . . interested in directly coping with the problems of living...
Blaine then told his audience that on most college campuses "the student body falls generally into four categories. About 58 per cent are conformists-glad to be part of an educational community [and] fairly content with what is being offered them . . . . Another 30 per cent are discontented . . . [and] have a lot of untapped energy available for any kind of project which is diverting and promises some excitement. About 10 per cent . . . belong to, or sympathize with, the SDS . . . Finally, at the center of the trouble there are about 2 per cent . . . whose main goal is the destruction of the university...
...demonstrators left the building at 5 p. m. May had warned them that they faced disciplinary action. He said later that he intends to bring charges before the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities against all identifiable students who "denied him liberty of movement or took part in the obstructive demonstration...
Dean Watson and Samuel R. Williamson Jr., a part-time assistant to May, were asked to leave. Watson was told by Jared Israel 67, "We want you to leave." Watson left almost at once to chants of "Don't touch his elbow!" -a reference to Watson's allegation that Carl Offer had assualted him during the take-over of University Hall last April...