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...this is only if we can reverse the more fundamental obstacle to student participation: the growing sense of disenfranchisement and indifference among America's most potentially energetic citizens. The issues of the '60s and '70s raconflict, Victnam, and Watergate--loosened party ties and turned new voters against the political process itself, they led to a wholesale rejection of government, and to the feeling that cial voting was no longer a viable way of influencing the direct of federal policy. Their apathy is not because of ignorance but because of despair. "Students today feel very alienated from the traditional political system...
...wanted to remind people of the lessons of the war, to make a link with the future," said Christina Cowger, a representative of the Boston Alliance Against Registration and the Draft, which sponsored the day of lecturex and exhibits. "We're trying to link Victnam with the future because the war taught us that the government can't fight an unpopular war if the citizens won't support it," she added...
Many problems facing us today have followed humanity throughout history. Questions of prejudice and morality and fairness and justice that today are known as El Salvador and South Africa and the arms race have been familiar before under many guises. But realizing that El Salvador may be another victnam can lead either to a resolve to "mobilize the forces of protest again," or to a resolve to learn why no long-term progress has been made--why the same dilemmas keep arising. The latter resolve necessities serious questioning of our most basic beliefs and assumptions as individuals. It necessitates active...
...conflict between praising and damning America but it is all done with TV-movie style images. The race conflict only emerges in two confused, isolated noncommital instances, JFK is reduced to a poster on a wall and a picture on a beach ball; and going to Victnam apparently has no effect on Tom other than providing him with an Oriental wife...
...Questions of ethics have been with us heavily since Victnam and especially Watergate and they will be a continuing concern next year," he explained...