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...Mercer have risked the ire of some church officials by accepting aid. Says M. Norvel Young, president of Los Angeles' Pepperdine College, a wavering holdout: "We'd like to paddle our own canoe as long as it's feasible-but we don't plan to commit academic suicide...
Wallace has also increased his respectability by his frequent appearances at luncheons for business and professional men. His speeches are usually interrupted by table-thumping applause, and his attacks on the "bearded intellectual morons" who commit treason when they denounce the war in Vietnam often bring the cheering community leaders to their feet...
Attitudes at home set more stringent limits as a rising number of Americans demand to know why they must commit their strength on distant frontiers. They see a diminishing threat to their security as world Communism splits into opposing camps. They relax as the U.S. dialogue with Russia mellows; they worry less about a Red China hobbled by internal dissension. By their insistent questions they force the Administration to search for a set of priorities, to think twice before it exercises U.S. power...
...referendum to GSA members because they know graduate students as a whole would not support the referendum," he charges. "Now only the most conservative element among the graduate students, those who live in the campus dorms and pay $2.50 a year to attend the sherry parties, can vote to commit the Council...
...years of existence, the Council has shied away from politics. The question now is whether the Council should commit itself, on behalf of the GSA members, on the war. Several of its members think so, and the issue has become the focus of much bitterness...