Student power - 'a bastard offspring'
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Student power - 'a bastard offspring'
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page from Cornhusker Volume 63
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1969
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Student power - 'a bastard offspring'
It's when the dean has you out for breakfast and smiles and tells you there are certain things you just SHOULDN'T write and you smile and say, "sure, Dean," but he knows and you know that you will write them anyway, whether he picks up the check or not.
Student power has been around a long time. Medieval students had the first recorded riots with the local villagers; even students at NEBRASKA marched on the capitol during the 1879's to protest compulsory ROTC.
Real student power (of the "stuck eggs, trustee" variety) started with Mario Savio's free speech movement at Berkeley. It's message is this: you've been botching up things long enough prexy, move over and give us a try.
Student power means the Columbia trustees should have thought twice before they started expanding into the ghettos.
student power makes S.I. Hayakawa wish he had stayed with semantics.
Student power is a cry: "Hey, hey LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?"
Student power might have elected Gene McCarthy president of these United States, but the police rioted and the good mayor wiggled his jowls before Gene got a chance.
In one year student power turned France upside down, Columbia and San Francisco State inside out, and the Democratic National Convention into a brobdingnagian catastrophe
Oh, wow.
The above is an instant replay of student power as seen in full-dimensional blood-n' clubs on your TV set. The following is student power in the locker-room, or a brief analysis of What-makes 'em-think-they-can-change-the-world.
Student power really started in the South with bunch of Yankee kids who thought they could come down and register all those COONS to
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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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