Millersville University - Touchstone Yearbook (Millersville, PA)

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TOUCHSTOMC 8 over the first half of the new decade. By 1975, political turbulence had become a thing of the past. Only three years after the voting age was lowered, participation by MSC students in the democratic process had so ebbed that a Coalition for the Student Vote was formed by concerned students. And although voter registration on the MSC campus set a record high for an outside reg

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Repeal of the retrenchment plan was announced in mid-March. Students and staff were congratulating one another on the success of their solidarity, but one hard fact remained: the American notion of the indispensable value of education was, for many, no longer unquestionable. The dwindling of funds was one of many factors that changed the tone of college life

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1976 ACTIVITIES 17 STUDENT LIFE -IS ACADEMICS 65 SPORTS 229 CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS 269 VOLUME LXXVII 9 istration site in Lancaster County, the candidates nearly out-numbered the audience at a political forum held here in the spring; lack of questions from the floor resulted in early dismissal of the group. Less than a fourth of the student body participated in Student Senate elections. Other facts emerged in sharp opposition to the college of the sixties: increasing interest