University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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But the Issue was not ttie tables or the number sitting behind them; It was the philosophies they advocated: Get Out of Vietnam. McCarthy for President. Escalate Bombing. Burn, Baby, Burn. GENERAL nEETINO A second Index was the birth of DAILY opinion columns and a verbalization of reactions to the bomb, the pill and politics — and a new flux of letters- to-the-edltor.

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1967: A year of unrest for the United States — and for the campus where the restlessness became a search for both questions and answers. ' «i ' sjffi .w ' - ' ft TjrwfcT-jmpaRowwna r- T,- » -- •«« Always there was the charged disquiet and frustrating apathy until the students of the Sixties found a cause, and their cause was activism and protest. One index of the new surge of involvement was the number of tables set up in the HUB for peddling New Points of View. Too few tables for too many people — they needed more, they argued. 21

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The thin skin of the academic hide was pierced by the activation of reserve troops, the removal of most post-graduate and occupational deferments and sharply rising induction calls. Voices quieted and faces grew serious as the University ' s heart skipped a beat. . ' ■•--.-. ' y-- lit ! ' » » v ' 3n An opinion poll appeared on the winter election ballot and asked for student feeling regarding U.S. policy in Vietnam. The result was anything but a consensus. 23