Show Laurence Burton Sees New Left Invading Jill All College Campuses Millions of students across the nation have started back to school and although times have changed and students have become be become become be- be come a Ii little t tie more sophisticated sophisticated sophisticated sophis sophis- the basic Rs R's are still pretty much standard works in elementary and secondary education And what about those students entering or continuing with their college e d due u c cat a at t i ion o 0 n Hopefully they will fulfill the promise they represent to us the hope and shape of the future The problems problems problems pro pro- of America are challenging ing irig to every student There is one element which might disrupt the challenge It comes from what is called The TheN N New ew Left The new left is more clearly seen as those students who refuse to live by the rules Here in the nations nation's capital they are easy to identify the hippies y i Ipp pp i e s those who simply dont don't care about the challenge set before them I admit we dont don't have the problems in Utah that face the major uni such as Berkeley Columbia Northwestern Northwestern Northwestern North North- western etc But we do have an element in every Utah college that is worth looking at Our Utah campuses have that fringe of long haired boys beards skirted micro-skirted gl or more commonly known as the Hippie Although the Hippie Hipple has only really made himself known to tous tous tous us in the last few years-thanks years to our B British r I h friends who b brought r 0 ugh t back the fashion there have always been nonconformists nonconformists nonconformists non non- conformists in our 0 u r society Trouble is we always knew them as train-hopping train hobos The non-conformist non has de decided decided decided de- de that he must dissent The Therole Therole Therole role he or she plays in college as a Hippie Hipple or non-conformist non gives just such an opportunity And perhaps its it's a good thing to have that opportunity After all as long as the student on our Utah campuses has that right to ask questions and get getan getan getan an answer from the administration tion we wont won't have problems such as what occurred last year at Columbia The Hippie has brought problems problems problems pro pro- to our campuses drugs Utah law enforcement officials have told me that there is not one campus campuS' unaffected Not one Utah campus lacks the problem problems problems pro pro- blem of marijuana LSD or speed As a matter of fact its it's really a sad commentary on our times when Salt Lake Police PoUce Chief Dewey Fillis Fulls told me that even our Utah high schools have been the scene of drug traffic And then there are the Yip- Yip pies After Arter last months month's Chicago Democratic Convention the have been termed a militant Ripple Hippie The Youth International Party YIP didn't start out that way or at least their leaders tell us so One of their founders Jerry Rubin a ring-leader ring of trouble at Chicago said the are only people who like fun Their proposed idea of fun was spelled out a earlier arlier this year when they announced their plans for the Chicago Convention They said they would hold a swimming party with bathing bathing bathing bath bath- ing suit optional They said they would conduct a Miss contest They announced ed they would have a birth- birth pill control-pill hunt and believe it or not they said they would nominate Pig as a Presidential candidate Pig of course be being being being be- be ing a year one-year-old four-footed four variety But the loving fun showed their true colors when earlier this year they held a Yip-in Yip at Grand Central Station Station Statton Sta Sta- tion and it took policemen to stop the from turning the place into utter chaos In Chicago the tried to help put into effect a piece of legislation I introduced in Congress What I mean is that the tried to tear down Old Glory to hoist the Viet VietCong VietCong VietCong Cong flag nag They didn't succeed or they would have found that under my bill desecration of the flag would mean they would have received a year in jail a fine tine or both what's worse the leaders have said You aint seen yet They project a score of scenes similar to tp the ones which occurred at Columbia Columbia Columbia Colum Colum- bia Berkeley and North North- western Riot in our colleges colleges- is what they're saying and they intend the to do the leading But I think the real problem for our colleges comes under the heading of Students for fora a Democratic Society FBI Director J. J Edgar Ho Hoover Hoover Hoover Ho- Ho over reported this week that the New Left Left- Lefton on our campuses will be led by the a group which is infiltrated by supported supported supported sup sup- ported by and inspired by the Communist Party |