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Show August 4, 1967 COLLEGIATE WEEKLY Page 1 1 Youth 1967: Active, Young People With a Purpose? by Carol Deegan An alive and active generation. Is it a myth, visually displayed in television advertising, blaring forth from transistor radios, written boldly in black and white, but never actually seen, heard or felt? Are today's young people fabrications of newspaper headlines, magazine articles, publicity stunts and a mass of sit-in's, be-in's, love-in's and perhaps, riotting? Mechanization Consider today's young, younger, youngest generations, caught between mechanization, computerization and tradition. Should one forefeit the past for the future or should the .future be endangered by outmoded, old fashioned concepts? When is the truth no longer the truth? (jet airplanes will never fly; tuberculosis is the number one killer of infants; thalladimide is a reliable drug) When is fiction no longer fiction but fact and fact is suddenly fiction? (flying to the moon; vitamins are good for you; Frued is the father of psychology) Trans-Values What was good enough for father and grandfather may be decidely evil for son and grandson today. Nothing remains stable for any great length of time (consider the hour lost between mountain standard and daylights savings time, Greenwich Village time, moon time); values seem almost trans-luscent (fight for a cause, birth control is sinful, Protestants Why Not Go Real College Style? Ogden's Finest Pizza House 3214 Wash. Blvd. Phone 399-3723 Under New Management X C.:-"4j THE FINEST STEAK- C .' J CHICKEN-SHRIMP C ,jfc DINNERS- 3 milei up Ogden Conyon, Ph. 392-4775 or rlvofioB " X and Catholics will never agree) and those who look for a sturdy foundation may find themselves slipping into the mud. Mod, op, pop, psychedilic, LSD, STP, love-in's, flower children, draft, integration, pass and fail classes, free universities, electric powered cars; copper and train strikes, Nassaue vacations, Beatle cuts, court indictments, money making tours, short skirts, pop-top cans, bananas, young goodman brown, looting, London, half-price fares, shoop, shoop hula hoops; underground movies, Central Park in the spring; San Francisco, White Rabbit, Berkeley, publication crises, automobile accidents, suicides, drugs, artificial everything, inflammable, inflatable, infatuation, divorce, polygamy, orange- colored doors, electric knives, firing squads, lists, categories, classifications, the world typed neatly on an IBM card with human traits unlisted or excused or tolerated but rarely accepted or admired; Men Are Men Where men are sometimes men and women look like an amusing variety of things including space monsters; xontimum and forever, continum. Is there really a purpose to all this? What are we seeking and where are we going and if we get there, what will we find and what will we do then? Continue to search? It seems the world is winding higher and higher,, farther and farther up so that everyone is getting tighter and tighter, wind- ing around and around, over and over again until things are slipping so fast, it is an effort to stay on without blowing your mind or slipping a gear and although everyone says "how very easy it all is" - - things seem to be getting tougher and tougher, especially climbing to the top of all the confusion.New Generation Generations have come and gone in a steady, unending pace like the s wining off a pendulum on a clock, back and forth, back and forth. But today's generation, the postwar baby generation, the "Golden Age" kids, seem to have sung the pendulum sideways . . as if to find a new approach which may or may not solve, or at least unravel, some confusing problems.Fog vrs. Smog The issues are fogged, the answers are not clear-cut, but a majority of today's young people are looking for the answers . . . different, varied avenues are open to them and each seeks his road . . . not knowing exactly to what . . . but discovering along the way certain things about himself and life that he didn't know before. What is the new generation and where are they going? The new generation is today and they are going from yesterday to tomorrow; beyond that, all hypothesis about direction of course is purely problematical. u A' ' J r , x LwrniMii mi iti Miiiiw'wbi E arrs Features me At ( Make Use Of This Asset J At this time, youth is probably your greatest I asset. Let me explain to you what real value J it has if you begin now planning and purchasing a life insurance program for financial security f in the future. ( (C. New York Life ( I GCS? Insurance Company I ( &sLr- 455 - 24th St- l I I I Bus. 394-5713 ( ) Res. 392-8276 J ) Hugh . Gates r J Special Agent f ')fhh and COMPANY 2434 WASH. BLVD. f I I I V.'. .mm"" ' 'I f (upstairs) I V 1 si J--' ! mmmms"- -- 1 arr Lower Prices |