University of Southern California - El Rodeo Yearbook

“5.^-S •O 13 C u u u > ^ > c «i c ' i o Sea -O M I =-^ e 2 2i u E < Li J2 ■£ ^ p > ^ •*- , rti — — > > CO ' l- DO c O C c _ O .i£ " E o ut» EH £ O (u - o _ 2 -a t; -Q = -S c •J « o > ^§.!2 E ^ w- 00 1) op u < u " > - 2 3 gr^ii ' S o — ^ ^ E 5, ■£ w. 00 > H -^ " " O J- C 0) U JJ l^ ' o j= a. 3 a. rj J= 00 M " c S c £ ■eS ' I " i ° O > 4 > > -f - — BI C ' > u As the semester began, September 21, with a national mood of apprehen- sion, the echo of conflict and violence had not been gone long and was promising to return. College students were among the most feared single groups in the nation, and sometimes also the most afraid. The explosive confrontations of the spring semester, represented at DSC by the Days of Concern and the options of the " USC Plan " in which activists could choose to end the semester early, had been followed by a summer of the more literal explosions of terrorist bombs. Only a few weeks before the semester began a bomb killed a physicist in Wisconsin and a young revolutionary group promised open warfare. Later, Bernardine Dohrn, of the Weather- men, promised a " fall offensive of youth resistance that will spread from Santa Barbara to Boston, back to Kent^ and Kansas. " ^ ' ° ^ But undercurrents of fear or cofi-;^ spiracy are hard to pin down and anyway, registration was accomplished with a minimum of violence. In the few hard core centers of tradition, institutions such as fraternity and sorority rush, and Presents, accepted the new beards and moustaches with- out flinching, although numbers de- creased. " Rush was great for the girls who got what they wanted, " said one of them, " but a little hard on everypne._ else. " < 5 o — ^ ol ' u c/3 ”