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...student government or other positions of leadership. It was we squares who spearheaded and supported the first "Festival of Ideas," which brought, among others, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Robert Theobald and John D. ("Jay") Rockefeller IV so we could seek further than just kick at the status quo. Our head football coach's interest in the students transcends the goal post. At a leadership conference, Jim Carlin said, "Don't be against something, be for something...
...Left is determined not to cooperate with groups that have even slightly bowed to the status quo. When Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin suggested that the New Left shift from protest to coalition politics and work with labor and liberals, he was berated as a cop-out who was threatening its moral purity. Michael Harrington, who put poverty on the map in his book The Other America, is now similarly denounced; he calls the New Leftists "mystical militants...
...machine with enough range to test the super-reader. The college reading teachers say that nobody has asked them to build one. Neither side appears anxious to obtain indisputable truth. There is too much to lose. At this point, each has a vested interest in maintaining the status quo...
...future peace become corrupted both by illusions of virtue and omnipotence addressed to oneself and equally unrealistic punitive aspirations unfortunately the conduct of the war effort, but interferes in the most serious way with any rational approach to the problems of devising a new and durable status quo to take the place of the one that is bound to be destroyed by the great upheaval of the war itself...
...VIDA's were planning to make the demonstration violent, and that the neighborhood might lose a planned government housing project if the march was carried through. The rumors, many VIDA members speculated, were started by poverty program officials to appease Laredo's leaders and maintain the status quo...