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KESEY'S only explicit political advice was given in a speech to a huge Berkeley peace rally. It was "to say fuck the war and just turn your back on it." This leads Wolfe to an asinine prediction of the "death" of radical politics, the end of organized demonstrations. He not only predicts, but at the end of the book describes this non-event as if it had actually occurred...
...think the Communists have been left unchecked in this country for so long, and I don't think the average American is aware of it," says Ron. "Look at the riots at Columbia and Berkeley. Who gains by all this? The Communists. It makes them gloat," Sally agrees and adds: "Mayor Daley handled it right. He was prepared. The Democratic Convention wasn't a fraternity initiation." Ron, a Lutheran, believes that there is too much permissiveness everywhere: "I would have gone to college if I had been spanked a few more times...
This fall, students at many colleges and universities have gained representation on curriculum committees, advise the president on educational goals or operate nonacademic campus services. At Berkeley, students now sit on 23 committees, including one in the Academic Senate. It is becoming common for students to gain the decisive voice in regulations affecting their social activities and living conditions. Discipline is often handled by student courts...
...springs resort, the stone-and-redwood monastery compound at Tassajara was purchased for $300,000 by a group of wealthy Zen enthusiasts. There is a Japanese roshi, or Zen master, Shunryu Suzuki, 65, who gives guidance in meditation. The American director of the monastery, Richard Baker, 32, is a Berkeley graduate who specialized in Oriental studies. His 60 fulltime novices include college students-for some reason, most come from Minnesota and Texas-professors, a psychiatrist, an importer, a bookshop owner and a former naval commander. There is also a sprinkling of housewives: Tassajara is the world's first...
What seems to attract young people nowadays is Hesse's preoccupation with Eastern mysticism and his soul-racked characters, who suffer from that now common malaise of the under-30 generation, the identity crisis. Not far from the Berkeley campus, a favorite hangout is a beer joint called Steppenwolf, so named by its original owner (Max Scherr) because that novel symbolizes the loneliness of the intellectual. At Harvard, where Hesse's books sell better than any of his contemporaries except Faulkner, Senior Joel Kramer says: "Reading him is a gut, emotional experience." Adds Harvard Graduate Student Mark Granovetter...