European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse By Garven Hudgins a staff writer from the strident tumult heard soften on College campuses it emerges that the american student harshly critical of the establishment of his elders has created one of his own. Its adherents Are More often clean shaven and neatly dressed than Long haired Ano unwashed. The student establishment is diverse has no Central organization and in its broadest terms is United on just one thing distrust of the big establishment in Washington. It is somewhat fragmented in its opposition to the Vietnam War although mostly against it. It is surely one of the most committed generations concerned about the sur rounding society and seeking ways to become involved in it. It includes a new right As Well As the More vocal militant new left Anda moderate Center. Each has its own orthodoxy ritual and status on Campus. If you Are of the new right it i predictable that you will be Strong for political activism individualism Ronald Reagan and the conservative economic philosophy of ayn Rand if you Are of the new left you will be in with a varied group in a hurry to have its voice heard and heeded forbore student control of University activities against military or Cia or do chemical recruiting on Campus and against the draft. If you re somewhere in the big mod Erate Center it is probable that you will have Liberal leanings and that you tend to remain silent on major Campus rhubarb even while lending tacit sup port to the activists. They May belong to such rightist Campus associations As Young Ameri cans for Freedom the intercollegiate society of individualists the students for Reagan the California citizens for Politi Cal action and something called Voli Tion whose disciples spend much time discussing conservative economics. Organizations on the left include the students for democratic society the student nonviolent coordinating com Mittee and extremist far out groups such As the trotskyist association headquartered in a slogan bedecked abandoned store just off the University of California s Berkeley Campus. In the Middle Are Christian denominational associations hebrew student organizations recreational clubs and groups devoted to doing gooo1 works of Campus. A key word in the student establishment right left or Center is commitment. Rebellion in youth is nothing new says William Boyd the University of California s vice Chancellor for student affairs. But the rebellion today has a relevance to society that was lacking i earlier Days. By and Large students to Day Are looking for ways to become committed to and involved in half a continent from Berkeley s Roll ing Campus Indiana University s Dean of students Robert Shaeffer detect the same student motivations. Students says Shaeffer seem to realize today that they Are citizens in society not just people preparing Tenter society. This is the most committed student generation America there is evidence that even uninvolved students agree with the activists who Buck the system. Charles Mcclure Dean of student affairs at the University of California at los Angeles says the student who does not want to be bothered is a rare this is a Clear trend says Dean Shaeffer. Previously students accepted the system. They were intern moving upward within it. Now a thinking students Are convinced Short for 40 underground newspapers published off Campus and most of combining salacious Ness with so protest and titillating political a , there Are two Washington cd student wire services the rela in moderate student press Assoc a and the More Radical liberation service which distribute student cited mimeographed news bulletins. With the permission of University offis radicals come into their own each at High noon on the Berkeley Cam Chimes in Sather Tower sound in a tonal hymns a student rally form front of Sproul Hall the University s ministration building. The throng is de up mostly of neatly dressed Stu dents but Here and there you can see a Long haired Barefoot usually Are radicals but University instructors take the podium occasionally. The favorite current topic is draft resistance. Fiery speeches Are like a to include references to the Secretary of genocide Dean Rusk. Representative of the Large body of moderate student activists is Karilyn Barker pert Brunette editor of the Stu Dent Dally newspaper at Berkeley. A 21-year-old senior majoring in eng Lish Karilyn believes the student establishment has a responsibility to seek a greater voice in matters affecting the student body. She echoes the sentiments of Many other committed students when she says we want the right to determine events in matters that directly affect us. This includes setting up rules and standards of All there is the question about what these kids Are going to do after they re no longer students. If they can t take control of their lives in col lege How will they be Able to do it out Side College Twenty two year old Dick Beahrs president of the Berkeley student body believes strongly in More student participation in University affairs but Dis agrees with the radicals approach to the Issue. A lot of radicals says Beahrs want a Strong militant student organization which will act As a press regroup against the administration. I think students should be involved in a Dif Ferent Way by developing student organizations which truly and effectively speak for the student body and which can discuss issues with administrators with a View to reaching a solution Satis factory to everybody. You can t have this if you operate in some kind of splendid autonomy Ashe radicals want to do. This isolates you from the source of m, Barker suggests that the Vietnam War turns some disenchanted students to extremes. They react by Reading chairman Mao she says. "1 Don t go for that but i do believe the War is Beahrs a history major who lives in Palo Alto calif., misgivings about the War have spilled Over to color his feeling about the entire . Social Struc Ture. I Don t think students feel any great 1 111 violence flared in anti Vietnam War lists. Some students As Here at Lucia seek quieter solutions. Don i have to Ivory about Thev Bank so no can off Oral to think about of liars and of out and do Vietnam Boyd allegiance to our society today he says the Vietnam War has disrupted everything. Maybe not every student is going to go out and join a protest demonstration but 1 Don t believe we feel As a group that we can have Faith in this political system when it has led us into a War like the american Council on education in Washington estimates on the basis of a National Survey that at least 60 per cent of american College students Are violently opposed to the War. Berkeley s vice chancello concurs with a majority of University administrators in selecting civil rights As the one Issue which changed the Jayyoung americans look at their nation. They Learned a lot from the civil rights movement Boyd says including the fact that Laws Are not always Good and that All Law enforcement official Aren t either. The civil rights movement enor Mously exhilarated Young people an gave them a new sensitivity with which they examined other issues. When the did they found Many other areas in which things were wrong and the began to ask questions. They re still asking and tins is a healthy administrators also Are con Vinced that the affluent society established by tin elders that students often critics a most vehemently has made it possible for More students to get in voted Post world War 11 College students were a maturing influence in the environment but they did t seek in live ment on the says Dean Mcclure. They wanted to get an Educa Tion and get out and find a Job Laurence Capitelli 21-year-old Polit ical science major at Berkeley puts it More bluntly we Don t have to worry about the Bank so we can afford to think about others and go out Kaiui do something for , what happens when this committed student generation Breaks out of the student establishment and readies 30 the age that for them now Marksman abyss where altruism gives Way to crass commercialism certainly the majority of Stu i mis Are in College today for the purpose of getting documents that will Heip he get a Ood Job and a use per a a Harkeu o . 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