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...more U.S. colleges have quit mothering students, freeing them to live off campus. The result is a new political-academic stepchild: the "student community." Such incubators of the counterculture raise complex questions for university and town authorities and for the students themselves. The largest and most volatile is Isla Vista, abutting the University of California at Santa Barbara. Last spring, "I.V." erupted in three major riots that produced a burned-out Bank of America branch, one death and nearly 1,000 arrests. Most campuses have been relatively calm lately, but two weeks ago a bomb damaged the roof...
...would not have taken a planning genius to predict the result when Santa Barbara quadrupled its enrollment in ten years. Unable to get federal loans fast enough for building dormitories on campus, the university let students live in Isla Vista. The sleepy beach town became the home of 7,400 Santa Barbara students-54% of the enrollment -plus 4,000 nonstudents. The population density in I.V.'s half square mile is the highest in California. Two-thirds of the inhabitants are under...
Then there is a VISTA project in the county. Too many of the VISTA volunteers whom I knew were lazy and uncommitted. For those who are committed, I have only the greatest admiration. But even these are rendered ineffectual by the system in which they must work. The Nixon administration has cut back the VISTA project in the county by fifty per cent and has forbidden VISTA to do anything in politics. This has had the effect of reducing their efforts to what some volunteers have aptly called a "band-aid strategy." They can teach kindergarten, but they cannot work...
times in a monotonic chant, spoke against people with long hair and mod clothes. In the past this same man has preached against the VISTA project. He then told the story of the Dutch boy who put his finger in the dike; the preacher said that the United States was about to burst wide open and that everyone should put his finger in the dike. Wild. Then, speaking figuratively, he said that God would make us drive our new cars straight and on the right side of the road...
From the give and take at the trial so far, the vista emerging is one of vast confusion. Soldiers wandered about the hamlet setting fires, shooting at people and animals, rounding up villagers. In addition to the mass killings described by Conti, individuals and small groups were also shot down. One question that the Calley trial has not grappled with yet, and may not confront at all, is why it all happened...