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...Draft letter of Rudenstine calling for better grad. student advising. Finally, TFs get something right...
...clear: we are the next generation, the people who will inherit the policies and practices of today's bureaucrats; we must vocalize our disapproval because no one will do it for us. History teaches us that this is true. When the Vietnam War threatened their lives, students burned draft cards; when blacks were fighting for their civil rights, students marched on Washington. And activism has not only been anti-establishment; when fascism threatened to dominate Europe in the Second World War, young people enlisted...
...road between was hardly a smooth climb. Ronald Reagan gave the U.S. a heady draft of optimism while reversing the direction of government policy, recasting social programs and cutting taxes. Unmatched by spending reductions, however, those cuts sent deficits soaring to unheard-of highs, and the double-digit inflation of 1980 was cured only by double-digit unemployment...
...time to ubiquitous jukebox rhythms. Last week the sidewalks and doorways were filling with new arrivals just off the bus and looking for a place to 'crash' (sleep). They scorn money--they call it 'bread.' They feel 'uptight' (tense and frightened) about many disparate things--from sex to the draft, college grades to thermonuclear war." --July 7, 1967, from a cover story on San Francisco's hippies
...accustomed to meeting people who adored him, bowed before him in reverence. He did not like it; he was a thoroughly straightforward man--and his Pauline was like a draft of fresh water... LOTTE LEHMANN Santa Barbara, Calif...