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...twenty or thirty University of Hartford students had come together in the lounge. After all the hours of suspicious glances across some imaginary barrier, a heated argument broke out between a YAF staffer and a U. of H. student, and the invisible shield finally shattered. The argument drew a huddle of supporters behind each of the protagonists, who stood face to face at one end of the lounge. Before this argument reached its pitch (when Dan Joy, editor of the YAF house organ, New Guard, called his emotional opponent a "creep"), other discussions had broken out all over the room...
...What follows is the second of a two-part feature on the tenth anniversary celebration held last month by YAF. Part One appeared yesterday...
THURSDAY was Goldwater day. The Young Americans for Freedom took many of their early members from the 1960 Youth-for-Goldwater-for Vice-President movement, and YAF reached its highest membership during Goldwater's presidential campaign. He's still their man, their biggest friend in office and their hope. A sign in the press room announced an evening press conference with Goldwater, that would be followed by his speech to the assembled Yaffers. Everyone was eager to see Barry...
More and more University of Hartford students were coming back to school and discovering the YAF convention going in full-swing on their campus. Many of them hung around the student lounge, talking and eyeing the young conservatives, who eyed them back. Many of them resented the fact that the university had rented out the campus to such a group. "It's like having ROTC set up in your lounge." Some were really angry: "This is an example of the liberal attitude towards education: separate values for the educational process.... It's an example of the latent schizophrenia...
...reporters, photographers, and a video-tape crew were crowded along the walls of a small room for Goldwater's press conference. YAF's very own Barry sat at a table behind a phalanx of microphones. He was tanned and freckled and as dynamic looking as any Goldwater fan could wish. One observer thought that Goldwater was getting to look more and more like the caricatures drawn of him. Goldwater was striking in his directness. He seemed, for a politician, unusually willing to speak his mind, and rarely tried to speak his way around a question; he neither played...