Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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Forming groups must be an I.U. student invention. Like boress is. In fact there may be some connection. This year saw the registration of groups ranging from the arch-conservative Students for an Orderly Society to the W.E.B. Dubois Chib, inchiding such middle-of-the-road organizations as the Ski Club and the Go Club ( Go is an Oriental board game ) . The good work of one organization is shown on this page. In spite of a rather fluid membership, Jim Shien ' s card section always had something nifty to flash at the alumni. Whether you would call the work on the opposite page good depends a lot on your politics. But the fact remains that the liberals did a lot of work this year. And have gained some ground to show for it. Like a certain degree of respectability. A great deal of credit here must go to a sharp training cadre. The Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS ) first sounded the tocsin for university reform way back when, with its petition on women ' s hours. Since then it has come on to provide some of the leadership for the Organ- ization for University Reform (OUR) and the Progressive Reform Party (PRP).

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j v-- 5 : The good work the SDS did was primarily brainvvork. The group was out to encourage thinking, and went about it with a will. The Dunn NIeadow Forums on Friday afternoons drew surprising crowds for a campus where the status was as quo as it was. The SDS Free Uni- versity ' Series varied topics from a series on the roots of contemporary popular music to a mes- sion on The Social Implications of the Over- developed Economy. And if the Forums usually ended in toe-to-toe shouting matches, they at least aired a lot of ideas in an atmosphere not noted for such acti itv. 11