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...will put them over." So said Joseph Rhodes Jr., 23, before setting off for a hearing last week at Kent State University in Ohio, the scene of one of the bloodiest episodes in the recent history of campus disorder. Rhodes was referring to Richard Nixon's Commission on Campus Unrest, of which he is the only student member. By "oh-deeing"?a hophead term for a drug overdose?he meant that the other commissioners have been startled by the fervor of the students and the severity of the country's reaction to collegiate violence...
Helping the Commission. More important, Joe Rhodes believes that disorder on campus is only a part of the country's cultural upheaval, and it is to this problem that he intends to speak. "I'm not interested," he says, "in finding ways to solve campus unrest if that means damping out student dissent. My ultimate goal is to tell the President in no uncertain terms what can be done to save lives this fall." He means throughout the country, not just on the campus. "We're like a vast system only a few millimeters from building up to its explosive...
...hurt. Today there is a return to conservatism in America. A majority of people cherish the forms of this society, but are fearful that they will be destroyed. Today they see nothing to make them hope. We are still in the Viet Nam War, and we still have social unrest...
They are the first of 400 youths scheduled to participate in a new program that has brought the military into the problems of the inner city. In late spring, a Marine Corps colonel attended a meeting concerning summer unrest held in Mayor Joseph Alioto's office and offered the Corps and its former survival training school near Lake Tahoe as a fresh-air refuge from the streets. San Francisco policemen recruited the 13-to 15-year-old campers, including some they had previously arrested for purse snatching and car theft. Businessmen put up the money for food, the Marines...
Testifying before the President's Commission on Campus Unrest last week, Columbia University's President-elect William J. McGill estimated that as many as 50% of all collegians now belong to "an alienated culture, hostile to science and technology, which is growing at a very rapid pace." McGill's solution is to speed up education and get collegians into full-time jobs faster?an effort to promote earlier independence...