Student power - 'a bastard offspring'
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Student power - 'a bastard offspring'
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Description
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page 184 from Cornhusker Volume 63
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Date
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1969
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deal in common with the militant blacks and the migrant workers and maybe, just maybe, with the Viet Cong.
The enemy is big-as big as the United Fruit Company, General Motors, Dow Chemical and the Pentagon all rolled into one. It had all the power that big money and the pigs and the establishment propaganda machine could provide.
To oppose all that, the students had only themselves, a little excess energy and a fairly decent grasp of the truth. The result was predictable. The students lost.
Since the student does not rebel from the stomach, but from the mind, he gives in more easily. He becomes bored, rationalizes his boredom as frustration, and retreats to become a hippie or a man-in-a-gray-flannel suit, leaving his mess for someone else to clean up.
But after the would-be revolutionaries have packed their bags, after the tear gas has all blown away and the House Un-American Activities Committee has done its bit, oh wow-students are cropping up all over. They're on the committees, they're being invited to run over their thing one more time for the information of some suddenly eager bureaucrat.
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Author: Jack Todd
Title: "Student power-'a bastard offspring'"
Periodical: 1969 Cornhusker Volume 63
pages: 182-185
1969
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