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Show The Summer Was Great The summer has gone and now it's time for all of us to open the books for the start of another academic aca-demic year. We hope that the summer was spent doing do-ing something you really enjoyed, like digging ditches for the highway commission or stimulating your ven-cose ven-cose veins being a waitress or a store clerk. The east coast was fun this summer I learned a i0t you should have been along. The Newport Jazz Festival was great. The cold air kept the viewers view-ers from being as boisterous as they have been in past years. Buddy Rich performed magnificently on the final night of the festival. He received a standing ovation from everyone present. Two weeks later I was again in Newport this time for the Folk Festival. Unfortunately gobs of High School kids turned out for the festival even the singers were of a high school caliber except maybe for John Baez who along with her sister and Judy Collins Col-lins gave a stirring rendition of "We at all just rows and rows of shabby old buildings Most of the Hippies have moved out of the Village leaving the semi-Hippies, role-playing NYU students and thousands of grubby teenieboppers. The Village Gate still swings with great entertainment the weekend we were there Mose Alison had just fin. ished a weekend stand. For the first time in all my life I was happy to be back in the Valley of Salt. The mountains that dwarf ; our quaint village looked great. I admittedly am having hav-ing trouble getting used to the wide streets and the semi-sensible drivers. One thing the traveler learns is that one city is pretty much like another and that the situation on the home front isn't as bad as it often times appears. The journey home brought me to the United States Student Press Association Conference in Minneapolis. -What a shock. Nobody else in the country can carry I cigarette and beer advertisements. And here we ' thought it was the doing of the domineering Mormons. Mor-mons. Talk about editorial freedom we have it. One school from Florida had 6 students on their publications pub-lications council and one faculty advisor seem I" great? ha the faculty advisor had the power to override the votes of all the students' votes. Most of the papers had faculty directing the editorial policy and censoring all news that had any semblance of controversey. j You know the grass always seems greener on the I other side it really isn't, you know I'm not trying try-ing to convince you but it is the truth. So I'm back resolved to doing my darndest in putting put-ting out a better than ever Chronicle hope you've noticed all the changes we've made. We think they're great hope you do too. Maybe '68 will be Shall Overcome." Ah New York what a place. You order a coke you get it okay I mean literally, they throw it at you. I swore before I left, that I would throw one back but I didn't. It's a nice place to see at night that way you miss a good portion of the garbage in the streets. The subways are like pressure cookers cook-ers and the streets are like frying pans. The whole place is wall-to-wall cement. And then there was the Village Greenwich Village, that is. It was unreal not like I expected known as tne cnange tor tne Uhron- j icle. We're looking forward to serv- j ing you during the coming year. We hope that we can keep you in- ! formed with an honest picture of what is going on throughout the world and here at home. Pass your Chrony along to those outside the University community so they can see the progress being made here on campus but be sure you read it too Remember it's your newspaper representing you to the outside world. |