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Show the earnest inquirers after nyask f n if 1 r rir nnswers. do we nave tnese the spring-va- hnlirfav- riots iinofnl ' VVIW?JgIcation troubles at Fort .Lauderdale; ttii t riots in JNew EnglandaiidCalifornia last Labor Day, the Newport .... ' Jazz Festival riots of recent years? Iff - Why do masses of college stuaenis, mav voung-Ees- pie euiuvi ..-- , and other on querading as students converge themftonaay have resorts! Why, once too many of crowded together, do they drink, fight, destroy PTOpertyoVinjshomJtiotX. 13- Af lb what's going on." ity to hop in a car and "see As on all occasions of this kind, the trouble to disapis aggravated by some who pretend merchants and prove as well as by others the dnty it is to prevent trouble thc for a crowd. by making adequate preparations to Some merchants close their shops and try for youthfuLener.Anfrnrtire- channels UtlCl VVMWk I U-- ril -. irit .iJiii. J Aih,- poIjw iiiHI t4iii - -- il At6 we Wlts npialecadenclJ w. 1 -- as one psychiatrist has sug-- status? gested, evidence of youth's search for as long No simple answer suffices. Probably conflict the as university towns have existed, between Town and Gown, between the sober citizenry who haveVto work and the privileged do but study," has youth who have "nothing to intermittently broken into the open. uniAt best, the responsible authori ties of the versity and the community try to divert into more acceptable channels or vum- they ruefully tolerate them; at worsvmey iv. on ... mr-tfhipnls, t- ij uif yij ZTZ are-treat- ir where all iM9CJy lit iWOA stu- - action immediately instead of tcorting to1 ward some goaL We see this when idealists mass at state capitals or in Washinstead of ington to protest about something Philososettling down soberly to win adherents. authoripher Bertrand Russell forcing British moth-er- s ties to send him to jail and the masses of with baby carriages insistently parading esiKLtocffect these high jinks usually are meaningless pranks. America and in Asia, the conflict between students and authority more often takes political torms. students demonstrate for the Right, or the Left, nronpaiMntinentrn-Lati- n w or the protest against visiting politicians con- - A5asrfathtifig iFtieafrisoners. and such a riot can be into a "the streetTinT'Iac to the masses of students invading seaside refolsorts and the masses of younger ., lowing their example. But overshadowing all factors, penetrating the everywhere is our tendency to popularize Wnwirnr ii n the size of what happens, MiViiimi riot, a spark that ignites a larger fire. may overflow teen-age- rs ' , rriODArs U.S. student riots are pranks run puimtitj Xwild, fanned ny activities into our population the mobility of mass-mea- ia v urn mm.- - w - sands of students. In the past, each college could think up its own troublemaking activities each spring, and the fracas with the local police '.jgr.thg-fi- r department ended with a few fines, - mosia ivwyuiw inauat such 4 tnAv activity is given national a-ni- glit tnr A ZZ Jm.mjx- - m am But if the troublemakers provide an easy model and if publicity proviaeaA oetaiiea aescriitiuu, the new atiiitymyreadithincre riots did. speed, as the panty-rai-d can.be tied m wun a if or a date (the spring I "rdalO t k -- S. i - oreavac ... - J if ' J -v in Vnrt Ijiuderdalc ..Jo ZZZtoZZ consto ria in xoi. h ' tive countermeasures with dances, games, and part.es. IdbTOmrtistoryrWatevert mintoA the top of the socks, the kids who tried it would no longerbe reported as "swinging." . f .. ' mmwwl, ! .I ': (' ......... -- irt uuius is doing and wnat tne rest may law and of forces the As long as publicity, order, the commercial interests who profit by thealeofgasand beer and hot dogs,continue win pe more tondorsestudentnigh-jinKsaner-e .jiTitl mrirft serious ones. int WW But one sober, imaginative effort to prevent them, to reduce the whole thing to ridicule and put it in context, would be enough. like the dean of womenwitlvher wheelbarrow, one adequate, extravagant, mocking answer would.help deflate the picture, and this particular form o noting A -ll attention and spreads like wildnre. it me troublemakers use something difficult to get like Jhe snowballs which Yale rioters threw at the ' ed ofHSTeTnententersn -- ed - that they appear to numbers and so be encouraging a dangerous game of cops and misconrobbers. Sometimes one side or the other strues the situation, and the result is bloodied heads and filled jails. But a riot can also be avoided. On a Midwest wheelbarrow campus the dean of women filled a with girls panties, wheeled it into the center of the campus, and called out: "Come and get them!" At that moment, the fun evaporated. There were no takers ; there was no riot L.J ns student-shenaniga- Twiisri-snpakin- -- weU-arm- i - gteaxtic,i,v TrSoffietimesheoliee-disappeargiYingTrraKprtfrrithD ctnpdps. :baffiemuroinplega countries, t nors as dents- - "" me A1 -- iSoeTnW110 hdi fast and far and also our abil-- mi iuk- -- u" Anc-D-r The Styles arc mV$t rt nrnmote. " atiii vac "The cale, the 11 t A numbers of participants au . . n ya macnifvin? etiects 01 i: ', ,. : . I "'i i,XSS -- - mmmi'-i-i-- -' The Resurrect ion,1 by 15th-centu- ry uhhtMemU&gTis-tmeJf-lhe- J cf t Louvre Museum m Paris. Ehster also has profound m eaningfor auth orCatherine Marshall Read fccKptrwClr C WAITER PATRICK E. OtOURKE af Publisher Keiatiom g fomihf Weekly, to communications Send oil advertising 153 N. Michigan Ave- - Chicago i, m. 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