Word: yaf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Warren Woodward just graduated from a prep school in Connecticut where he led a small ("5 or 6 guys") YAF chapter. The most freak-like of all the delegates (wearing tennis shoes, small round sunglasses, a colored T-shirt, overalls with a "For God and Country" flag patch, and a part in the middle of his longish hair), Warren was the only one to openly question Keene's views on the war by raising an opposing point of view during the question-and-answer period. "I advocated winning for a while, but I've given up. They're Mickey-Mouseing...
Keene is National Chairman of YAF and, like most of his colleagues, strongly opposed to student violence. He's been close to it at the University of Wisconsin; he began a workshop on anti New-Left strategy by talking about this summer's bombing of the Army Math Research building there, and of the failure of the university officials to take seriously such warnings as an article in a paper titled "Army Math Research Building: Blow it Up." "All of these things represent a pattern," Keene warned the workshop attenders. "They're not isolated incidents, no matter what anyone says...
...YAF is trying to round up a list of lawyers who will give us help," Keene explained. "Really what you're trying to do is put a little fear in the administration who have been just sitting back or, even worse, helping these causes...
...workshop turned to the problems of outside agitators in campus politics. Rocky Rees, of the Yale YAF, stood up to comment that last year's Yale May Day Weekend to protest the Panther trials was named by"... a wandering band of bloodthirsty gypsies." "If you go to a small college and you notice a lot of unfriendly-well, freaky faces around you, the best thing you can do is take some pictures.... You might as well send them to us at Yale, because we might know who they...
Walter Dilger is too old to be a member of YAF, but he attended a lot of the conferences. He's from Dayton, Ohio, a small oldish man who's taken college courses in economics and political science at night, and just before the "anti New-Left" workshop broke up, he raised his hand and stood up to say, "I'm not surprised that the [campuses] were for Nixon, because the liberals spent twenty million dollars to put Nixon in office. He talks real conservative, but you look at his policies and he acts real liberal, especially in school desegregation...