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Obviously boredom and disinterest has to be the result of overcrowding because the last ineffec- tive instructor has been released . However, the serious student has little trouble concentrating on the subject matter. ‘See Clough Case pg. I 14 29
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Mood Indigo If anything sums up this year on campus, it is a change of mood. The enthusiasm of last spring, the new era of community, the almost crusade mentality dissipated in the haze of the summer. Most everybody returned in September feeling tired, apprehensive maybe, and a bit confused. By November, I overheard one university dean commenting that if you weren ' t confused, you just were not well informed. True there were some problems particular to this campus of 10,000: overcrowding in the classrooms and dormitory construction delays. Howev- er these were not of themselves sufficient to explain the general malaise. It was like continuing to bowl with a new ball — one with no holes. Those that wanted to play couldn ' t pick it up. Some were just too tired of trying. Others, in particular the incoming freshmen, either didn ' t know the rules or weren ' t interested in the game. And so the action stopped. It was the same across the nation. The New York Times in a November survey spoke of the quietness on the cam- puses, of the American uni-campus blanketed by a coast-to-coast calm. But lest you think this change was at- tributable to the fickleness of youth, or to a Burger Chef political mentality (quick, cheap, and around the cor- ner), I refer you to the remarks of Bill Moyers on assignment for Harpers Magazine. He reported on the fa- tigued, worrisome, isolationist attitude of adults in every state he visited. So I asked myself, something has hap- pened but what? I believe the answer is found to a great extent in three areas of our lives: the political, person- al, and economic. The roaring sixties came to a close last spring with an expenditure of emotional energy over Cambodia and a physical release climaxed by the shootings at Kent State, and the bombing of the physics lab at Wisconsin. The overwhelming majority of the people in this country were shocked and dismayed. With all good intentions it seemed that the political journey of the sixties had arrived at the crossroads of violence. To continue was insane, to go back was impossible. Thus the journey came to a halt. The college youth returned still not old enough to vote, still refusing to adopt violence but suspecting little could be gained by rallies, demonstrations and hand- bills. The result was a sort of political quietism this year on campus. I fear that cynicism and frustration are more to blame than apathy. For example, most colleges voted to continue with classes during election time. True, . there are plans afoot for a march on Washington on April 24 and May I . But it remains to be seen if people just have the strength for it. This outgoing expenditure of energy in the sixties also exerted a psychic centrifugal force, pushing each of us farther away from the center of ourselves and holding us there. Continued activism finally resulted in self loss which can only be overcome by an identity crisis. Erik Erikson who coined the term identity crisis wrote in a re- cent book that it does not mean to ask in a morbid fashion Who am I? . Rather it implies a dynamic process of questioning like What do I want to make of myself? and What do I have to work with? . Identity crisis then is an occasional event in our lives implying growth and constructive change. During the sixties the constant ener- gy discharge had diffused the question and the inquiring subject. Consequently, this search for the center characterizes much of the apparent calm or quiet on campus. Yet it is not a do-nothing calm, but has all the seeds, I feel, of a very fruitful regrowth of the person. No longer is one surprised to hear of students taking a year off from school to find out what they really can do. Sad to say for many the university experience has not answered this question or even assured that the answer arrived at would be respected later on. I also think it explains why more students are now living off campus, not for the big parties, but for the quiet and the privacy necessary to get one ' s head together. This curisis is also at the root of the widespread internal dissension of many student organizations, from the peace groups like S.M.C. to the staid and traditional student senates. One final example of note is the dormitory situation. The extension in parietals, the developement of coed living plans, counterbalanced by cries of invasion of privacy and lack of proper direction reflect more an attempt to discover the full potential of community living on a modern campus than permissiveness on the part of the stu- dents or authoritarianism on the part of the university. Alumni, administration and students alike should remem- ber that permissiveness and authoritarianism are of the same fabric since both positions do not allow a sense of
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