FLOWER POWER AND LORD ACTON
Giachana, Sam
off the campus in his role as citizen. The student is entitled to the same rights as any other member of the community. He should be free to engage in offcampus political activity as long as...
...In the final analysis, however, the university may justifiably limit the activities of the student while he is on the campus if the university believes such activity is antithetical to the purposes for which the student enrolled...
...Suffering communicative paralysis that at best rises to the level of pidgin English, the senators are incapable of coherent debate on any save the most childish issue...
...When prp's bills are not absolutely comic they are obscene, and IMPACT...
...Recently, while officiating a tedious senatorial debate, wheeler was detected reading a Photoplay magazine — which would have been a mark in his favor if he had not stumbled so noisily over the magazine's verbal complexities and gaped so notably over its fleshy daguerrotypes...
...The question of what activity is or is not part of the legitimate and relevant educational process is, of course, a difficult one...
...FLOWER POWER AND LORD ACTON By Sam Giachana If as Lord Acton's dictum advises, "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely," what wonderous metastasis can we expect from flower power...
...The official Soviet newspaper Izvestia has announced that the U.S.S.R., noted for its liberal views on "academic freedom," plans to publish J. William Fulbright's The Arrogance of Power, highly critical of U.S...
...By enrolling in the university, the student does not abandon his rights as a citizen...
...Flower power will freely germinate in the suburbs, on the campuses, and in the now bronzed slums, thus becoming a weed...
...and Herbert J. Muller...
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...The fog index matches the air pollution records of Pittsburgh and Levittown...
...These must be protected and respected...
...Which is to question: why legalize marijuana, for it corrupts absolutely...
...These freedoms are too valuable to be held in escrow by the university...
...One need not be a student of George Gallup to note that overwhelming pupil sentiment favored even stricter action against these political spooks...
...Under its present leadership, pupils' government would better convene in Showalter Fountain — if, that is, the fish would not object...
...In the year of Our Lord, 1968, the Mark Hanna Natural Gas Award is presented to Larry Canada Jr...
...He should be free to engage in offcampus political activity as long as his activity does not interrupt university affairs...
...but I think the university may, if it chooses, decide that a panty raid is not a logical means for the biology student to learn his subject...
...Thirty-five crazed pacifists expressed their disdain for constitutional amendments one, four, five, six, nine, and ten by squatting in the Business School corridor and costing twenty-six thousand pupils untold thousands in legislative appropriations, yet the senate — exercising that fastidious prudence which has subsumed more than one politician to the class of harold stassen — haltingly censured Dean Shaffer's nauseatingly fair treatment of the swine...
...HOW GREEN GROWS YOUR DUNES (Continued from Page 2) tenure, far surpassed the rhetorical bathos of george romney, george Wallace, or the kennedy kabal combined...
...History suggests a much less dramatic denouement more approximate to Lord Acton's pronouncement...
...seems more concerned with maintaining the stainless steel image of "moderate republicanism" than with marshaling a resolute opposition...
...Perhaps minatory flower power will eventually threaten black power, student power, and peace power compelling martin 1. king, the national student association, and doctor spock to declare a "power struggle...
...Still, prp's pupils' government chose to neglect the views of its constituents...
...As flower power grows will it enter the Churches, liberating those efflorescent brethren rooted in inescapable adoration to insensate icons of a fading age...
...Pupils' government is neither a government nor a responsive barometer of pupil opinion, prp's participatory democracy has failed to nurture a climate of political sensitivity...
...foreign policy...
...Go slumming any Thursday evening to pupils' senate — a mobile target for urban renewal...
...Witness the senate's catatonia in dealing with the Dow Debacle...
...Yet, at Indiana, such a decision would probably provoke guy loftman to declare a war of national liberation...
...Can we expect all the flowers, in future Pete Seeger folksongs, to goose step to San Francisco, there to become potted and the models for artificial flowers which, overshadowing their prototypes, will dominate and endure...
...ANNOUNCING: The First Annual Mark Hanna Natural Gas Award...
...which is to say corrupted...
...Or can any flower be intrinsically beautiful if, in August and September, it causes grief to exploited minorities...
...He should be free to speak, to associate, and to assemble for redress of grievances...
...There is no suitable trustee for the political liberties of the citizen, whether student or teacher...
...The Jordan River Forum flowed in torrents against them...
Vol. 1 • January 1968 • No. 4
