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Show Ugjgainslihewail , Student freedom missing in N -Authontarianism in curriculum ' not to be confused with bein ' subject, is so much a part of our ho k ! that university students arrive alrlj1'011 sJ i for the freedom one is preparedTS Duberman, Daedalus, Summer, 1968 v1" Didn't Question Precede -Until recently, colleges have n ' grading and examinations as part of K of Things and have seen .nooj long-standing assumptions that tp possessor and arbiter of Truth that hi transmit, knowledge (narrow v accumulated information) to students I function is to memorize it.-Davirf York Times, September 1968. h -Students are currently peddling n, teaching, the idea that teacher 2 S"? explore together, each learning from X T0tM view has done immense harm to"oth 2? teacher has relaxed his efforts whil it I 5 unleashed his conceit-Jacques Banun ' of faculties and provost, (258; E' (1957-67), February 1968. Encourages Dependence -The present educational system enmm debilitating dependence; each student, u2 notes at lectures, produces by the end of 2 semester (and for exams) a paraphrased copyoftw lecturer's text, one copy differing from the other less in content than in penmanship.-Alan Weiner graduating senior, Yale Alumni Magazine, Septembei 1968. -I read a sixth-grader's history paper about the Spanish-American War. The young boy, having put away his Mattel M-16 automatic rifle for the evening ' to do his homework, wrote that the 1898 war vis fought by America to set the poor Cubans free from f tyranny. He added that America traditionally fights on the side of right for justice and freedom ami therefore always wins, "like in Vietnam today." The Biggees have that kid right where they want him. i They've got his mind; when he's eighteen they'll take ' his body.-James S. Kunen, undergraduate, Columhii University, October 1968. Students have done nothing to earn a voice in planning the curriculum. The university is not, ami I was never meant to be, a democracy.-Jaaiuf! "Barzun, former dean of faculties and Columbia University provost, (1958-67), February 1968. The interests of the student population do not !; shift as often as the population itself. In fact, then are detectable signs that students are beginning to L look upon themselves as a "class."-Clark Ken, former Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley, November 1968. The move of the student movement t disillusionment, pessimism and alienation. At the center of the movement is an almost passionated neej desire to destroy, to annihilate, to tear down.4 Edgar Hoover, FBI director, February 1968. Q By Jeannette Brown . Now that the youth rebellion is confronting higher education, chaos has supplanted America s vision of the cloistered ivory tower, the institution of college. Here are reasons, reactions, ramblings and rhetoric from within and without: -Student dissent and behavior are not what really concern perceptive citizens today. Student unrest and dissatisfaction have been erupting through the centuries and dissent is an integral part of our American way of life.-J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director, February 1968. . -The intellectual weapons used m the war against youth are from the same arsenal-and the young know this-from which war is being waged against other revolutionary movements, against Vietnam, against any effective justice, as distinguished from legislative melodrama, in matters of race and poverty.-Richard Poirier, Partisan Review, October 1968. Make Own Decisions Today's 18-to-20-year-old considers himself an adult by which he does not mean (as many 40-year-olds unconsciously do) that he has ceased growing, but that he has grown up enough to make his own decisions-Martin Duberman, The Atlantic, November 1968. We are taught, Thou shall not kill, do unto others as you would have others do unto you, and love thy neighbor. And yet 10 per cent of our gross national product is spent on war every year while hunger, poverty and overpopulation abound at home and abroad. Thank you for your inattention.-student Paul Walters, Republican Convention, August 1968. The rebellion of youth, far from being a cause of disorder, is rather a reaction, a rebellion against the disorder we call order, against our failure to make sense of the way we live now and have lived since 1945- , Quite painfully, the young have suddenly made us aware that the world we have been seeing isn't necessarily the world at all.-Richard Poirier, The Atlantic, October 1968. We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against.-title of book authored by Nicholas von Hoffman, Washington Post reporter, 1968. Students lack manners, they are untidy and disinterested in personal hygiene, and they refuse to cultivate the amenities.-George F. Kennan, New York Times Sunday Magazine, Jan. 1968. Must View Realistically Only when the adult world begins to think of itself as strange, as having a shape that is not entirely necessary, much less lovely, only when it begins to see that the world, as it has now been made visible to us in forms and institutions, isn't all there, maybe less than half of it-only then can we begin to meet the legitimate anguish of the young with something better than the cliche that they have no program. Revolutionaries seldom do.-critic in New York Times Sunday Book Review, August 1968. The men of '43 can't even reject the demands of the infuriated young at Harvard or Columbia or Stanford who come out against the war. Universities don't have foreign policies. They're just there, and you attend them; you are consecrated with a baccalaureate by them, and if they invest their endowment in Mississippi Power & Light or South African mining stocks, the decision is done with regard to dividends and without regard to race.-Nicholas von Hoffman's observations at the 25th Class Reunion (1943) at Harvard, June 1968. Called Police -Dr. Kirk and his associates knew that they not deal with our demands, because that woul W a breakdown of their law and a wjtwn rf J order. So they called the police. And they p regret that the police injured 150 peopM really did regret it, because the brJJJ everybody how far the powerful w l go J answer a single question, rather than W questions can be asked.--Jame ,0. 8 undergraduate, Columbia UnnjpjWJW -For the classmates of I94,3,. socal imperfections, burrs on the welding ! ot structure which can be ground down j . workmen. Their fundamental social t anticipated; life has taught them to , uncritical, imperceptive.-Nicholas von 1 Washington Post reporter obMmboiJ j 1 Class Reunion at Harvard (1943), June 1 Free Expression Necessary , -Free inquiry and free apiesaon 1 attributes of the community Tlli I of that community, students shou Id be en ! develop the capacity for critical m & engage in a sustained and indepena- , ! truth.-Preamble, Statement on v j, 1 Freedom of Students, approved jy tne ! Utah Board of Regents, June. 19b ' 1 oBt -But it isn't a free country. u w w 9 1 school because you'd be drafted, aw j , study certain things to get a 'V & get a degree to make it, and you 1 nav get what you want, and you can ev f , you want! because it's fffp 1 beforehand. You can say whatever y b. -won't be heard because thf Sh you do manage to be heard, the r because the people have been told $ if they donn like you, they njg m because the government enu I exemplification.-James S. Kun , v. Columbia University, October Started Rebellion The Columbia rebellion was set in motion by a nebulous group of outsiders who are variously known as the corporate power elite, the military-industrial complex, the Establishment.-James S. Kunen. undergraduate, Columbia University, October 1968! -Today more than two thirds of university research funds come from agencies of the federal government closely connected with defense matters, and about one quarter of the 200 largest industrial corporations in the country have university officials on their board of directors. It is certainly open to question these days whether the university is engaged m research in order to pursue "truth" or to acquire status, power and profit.-James Ridgeway, author Crisfs " 1968 rporation: Amecan Universities ir Had No Grievances -The Columbia rebels had no grievances; the were interested solely in violence, obscenity anc hysterica insult.-Sidney Hook, "Psychiatry an" Social ScienceReview," August 1968. 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