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...known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. On trial are Ringleader Andreas Baader, 32, an art school dropout; Ulrike Meinhof, 40, a former journalist; Gudrun Ensslin, 34, a former teacher; and Jan-Carl Raspe, 30, sociologist. A fifth defendant, Holger Meins, died in prison last November after a two-month hunger strike. All are middle-class revolutionaries who emerged from the 1968 student rebellions in Germany determined to destroy "the System." In the two years from the founding of the Baader-Meinhof gang in 1970 to their arrest in June 1972, they roamed the country stealing cars, robbing banks and bombing...
...foals whinnied--hounds bayed their hunger--at last...
Professors with noon classes at Harvard get used to empty seats and irritable students. Most undergraduates rarely make it to breakfast here, which means that by 11:30, hunger begins to rival academic curiosity. Animal appetites often prevail, so that the weak begin trickling out around 11:50, hoping to beat the rush at lunch. Students with 12:00 classes either desert outright or file glumly into their classrooms and slump deeply in their chairs, glaring at the professor as if to say, "This lecture had better be good...
Moroz is now on a hunger strike to protest the charges, and asserts he has been treated inhumanely by prison authorities...
With such a premium placed on professors' time, a number of senior faculty question the attitude of undergraduates toward their instructors. Among some professors there exists an attitude of mixed wonderment and criticism toward the prevailing hunger for contact with faculty. Donald Fleming. Trumbull Professor of American History, who denies that there has been any change in student-faculty relations since 1969, says that it is "unintelligible" why students are eager for contact with senior faculty. "To me that is the most extraordinary psychological and sociological phenomenon of all. One has to think there's an element of romantic fantasy...