European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes May columns comments James Reston class of 85 embarks into the years most of the Young men and women graduating from College this year were born in or around the year president John Kennedy was they were 5 years old when president Nixon was 11 when he resigned after 12 at the end of the Vietnam and 17 or 18 when they entered College and Ronald Reagan entered the White dates Are for this years College Grad the recent 40th anniversary of the second world with its flickering Black and White television Pic Tures of broken cities and broken must have seemed almost As Remote As the struggles of the pioneers on the Prairies or the bread lines and the flight of the okies during the great so its no Surprise that theres a As be tween the memories of the class of 1985 and the perceptions of their parents and but or so it seems in this the Gap is wider and deeper this year than its not Only that the graduates and their old folks have but that the nation has changed faster than we can change the population of the United states has increased by Over 50 million since this years graduates were the wheeled industries have moved into the computerized from Coal and steel into laser beams on Earth and even in the this is not the sort of in the confusion of leaving most Young graduates Are thinking they probably think there going into a world As dangerous and troublesome As any faced by any other but i happen to think there the Lucky ones and Are going into the most hopeful years of the 20th in the next 15 despite All the present Commer Cial local tribal brutalities and philosophical backed by nuclear the chances Are that the class of 1985 will not have to face a third world War in this Century and if they do in this nuclear they wont have to endure it for their problems arc Likely to be quite different and maybe More difficult not How to Deal with War that threatens the nation and brings people together not even How to Deal with adversity the poor and Nedu As have to Deal with but How to Deal with Prosperity and the new four freedoms of the mod Ern age the Freedom of the Freedom of booze and other the Freedom of and the Freedom to run away from the consequences of their disbelief in anybody or this is a hard Call for the class of most of the College graduates this year will get including the Blacks among them most in useful William Buckley work far from the sooty Industrial tunnels of the  work in the Antiseptic computerized service industries in the Sun jobs for both educated husbands and bringing in enough Money to hire other people to look after their there Are ways to escape from this opulent trap of material but the class of 1985 has not had much help in trying to do since High school Days they have been encouraged to believe that College is not a Means to an understanding of the history and poetry of but an employment promising two careers in every and two cars in every the Wall Street journal reported the other Day that economics was now the favored subject among under even at in the Early economics at Harvard ranked sixth after studies in English philosophy and some thing called the psychology of social but no even the no enemy of didst seem to think that this switch in priorities was a Good the class of 1985 has heard a great Deal in these last four years about the Gross National the men Ace of the russians and the dangers of Federal budget and Trade deficits All important but very Little about the suffering of the human family at Home or in a period of spiritual this years col lege graduates have been often in the name of to confuse selfishness with to re Gard their own government As an and to concen trate on their own material my kingdom come my will be done hallowed be my name it will take awhile for the class of 85 to sort out the tinsel and hollow political cardboard characters and false values of the present heres hoping  have somebody to hold their hand to keep it from trem c 1985 new York times Syndicate setting the record straight on the marines Spring is the silly season for but some Springs arc sillier than a Bunch of students a fortnight ago closed or did so in a build ing at Columbia in protest against something or probably South or or or not enough Federal they didst quite Heights of their predecessors 20 years who succeeded in wounding Columbia so deeply turning it into a University in which one could not think or talk or write without risking Goon treatment that it took 10 years in the estimate of Many who know and love the place fully to but they a few Days ago a student at Brown concocted a byzantine complaint against Cia and proceeded to attempt a citizens so it mostly with since nobody gets around to prosecuting Mere students for interfering with the civil rights of but occasionally they get their they certainly got it at Wesleyan because there to Survey their behaviour was William he addressed his letter to the student in a Story in the same a student had been quoted As the marines Are basically an instrument of american he was the reason he protested the marines presence on Campus they were there such presence was insulting us by having soldiers in our the student classified the Marine As a second student Tore up recruitment pamphlets in the presence of a Marine Captain and his telling i feel sorry for the Trees that were killed to make and then a third student rushed into print to boast of his having failed to engage the serious attention of the he i asked whether they laughed at their dying to evident whether it became easier to see people dying after a William biographer of John Douglas Macar Winston Churchill and aut Obiora Pher of his own career in world War and a member of the Community of Wes addressed a letter to the student newspaper in which he remarked that protests were not that indeed most american students had been Isola even before the but then his memory took him Back after the japanese attack on Pearl i left hitchhiked from Amherst to and joined the Marine it is for me a source of Pride that before being discharged in late october crippled by i had been twice but it is a source of profound deeper than deeper even than that so Many of my fellow marines students who had left College campuses As i had perished in scenes of indescribable it would be unwise to ask me whether we laughed As they Lay Manchester calmly disposed of the notion of the marines As an expansion is pointing out that Only Sai pan whose inhabitants voted overwhelmingly to become an american Commonwealth is now a posses Guadalcanal Tarawa the Gilbert islands Are Okinawa was returned to iwo Jima is used by both japanese and american the Philippines got their Independence on and it was of course the same in Manchester went he noted the newspaper report that in their Demon students Lay on the floor and began to moan in the symbolic act of and clearly they knew nothing of How fighting men i witnessed Over a Hundred those with the strength to give voice rarely they bearing witness after that is More the death rattle is at the instant of death the in a single spastic empties its bowels and if you Are fastidious you May be offended by such but i didst Start it gets the dark effluvium of the slain follows the tropics it follows the Corpse then then bursts out of its the face turns from yellow to to purple to to Slimy i mention these details because the students who demonstrated May contemplate an if they Are going to do they ought to do it or be greeted by the contempt that is their concluded William Manches c 1985 Universal press Syndicate