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Show A New Look At 'April' By STEVE HOLBROOK Forget your old ideas of the new left and in particular the April Committee because in a very real sense the new left has forgotten its old ideas. You are far more likely to find that April Committee members have taken Camus seriously seri-ously in terms of political thought instead of Marx who really talked about another age that doesn't apply ap-ply much to present day America. The most unusual aspect of the new April Committee is its acceptance accep-tance of the Hippie love ethic while not dropping out from school and creative self developed projects of one sort or another. In practical terms this idea brings about a kind of direct honesty between the members in a person-to-person situation situ-ation and further it changes the public relationship between themselves them-selves and the people they want to reach. That relationship will mani fest itself later in the year because the April Committee intends to find out just what the students on campus cam-pus want out of school and what, if anything, is bothering the students stu-dents about their education at this university. The April Committee will work from that point rather- than attempting to create unrelated projects proj-ects on the campus. If you want to characterize the April Committee you could call them the last of the idealists but more accurately they are the first of the new realists. They know that people want something more out of life than just more and more possessions maybe people even want to be themselves these days instead of creations of a mass computerized society. April Committee Com-mittee members know that quite realistically man must find ways to get along or no one will be left to enjoy the beauty of life. They know even more realistically that if life isn't made more meaninsf,,i fast for a lot of people that sol won't care what does happen The new left is a new phenomena on campus this year because rnu of the old leftist programs we based on the bankruptcy of the lih I eral philosophy that permeates thk I country today and can't begin t I cope with riots and wars and mean 1 ingless lives. The April Committee I meetings today are run by th ! numbers (none of this old parlia mentary-Roberts Rules or Order i hassle) and the meetings just keen 1 going on until everyone has had 1 his say and a consensus is reached. ' A radical group is really emei?. ' ing on campus for the first tin i Not radical in the sense of ex- ' tremist but in the sense that a new way must be found and perhaps j has been found at beginning to ! look at our lives and change them J for the better. |