Show I The TIle Hope Of The TIle Future I I By REP LAURENCE BURTON Millions of students across i the nation have started back backI I to school and although times have changed and students have become a little more sophisticated the basic Rs R's are still pretty much standard standard standard stand stand- ard works in elementary and I secondary education AND WHAT about those students students students stu stu- stu- stu dents entering or continuing with their college education Hopefully they will fulfill llie Elie promise they represent to us the hope and shape of the future The problems of America are challenging to every student There is one element which might disrupt the challenge It comes from what is called The New Left The new left is more clearly seen as those students who refuse to live by bythe bythe bythe the rules HERE IN the nations nation's capital capital capital capi capi- tal t they ey are easy to identify the hippies those who simply dont don't care about the challenge set sel before them I admit we dont don't have the problems in Utah that face the thc major universities such as Berkeley Columbia Northwestern Northwestern North North- I 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 girls or more commonly known as the thc Hippie Although the Hippie has only really made himself known to us in the last few years-thanks years to our British friends who brought back the there fashion have always been non-conformists non in our society Trouble is we always knew them as train-hopping train hobos I 1 I IE lE NON-conformist NON has decided decided decided de de- de- de that he must dissent I The role he or she plays in college as a Hippie or nonconformist nonconformist nonconformist non non- conformist gives just such an opportunity And perhaps its it's a good thing to have that opportunity After all as long longas i as the student on our Utah i campuses has that right to ask questions and get 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 lems to our campuses drugs Utah law enforcement officials officials of of- have told me that there is not one campus un un- un- un affected Not one Utah cam cam- DUS ous lacks the thc problems of marijuana LSD or speed AS A MATTER MATIER of fact its it's really a sad commentary on our times when Salt Lake Police Police Police Po Po- Po- Po lice Chief Dewey Dewcy Fillis told me that even our Utah high I schools have been the scene of drug traffic And then there are the es After last months month's Chicago Democratic Convention Convention Convention Conven Conven- tion the have been i termed a militant Hippie I The Youth Party YIP didn't start out that way or at least their leaders tell us so ONE OF their founders Jerry Rubin a ringleader ring of trouble at Chicago said the are only people who like fun Their proposed idea of fun was spelled out earlier this year when they announced their plans for the Chicago Convention They said they would hold s swimming party with bathing suit optional They said they would conduct conducta a Miss contest BUT THE loving fun Yip Yip- pies showed their true colors I when earlier this year they had a Yip Yip-in at Grand Central Central Central Cen Cen- Station 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 in introduced introduced introduced in- in in Congress What I mean is that the tried to tear down Old Glory to hoist the Viet Cong flag 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 or both AND WHAT'S worse the Y leaders have said You aint seen yet They project a score of scenes similar similar similar simi simi- lar to the ones which occurred occurred occur occur- I red at Columbia Berkeley and Northwestern Riot in our colleges is what they're saying and they intend the to do the leading I But I think the real problem problem problem lem for our colleges comes under the heading of Student for a Democratic Society Society Society So So- I FBI DIRECTOR J. J Edgar I Hoover reported this week that the New Left on our I campuses will be led by the i a group which is infiltrated in infiltrated in in- filtrated by supported by and I I inspired by the Communist Party |