University of Maine - Prism Yearbook (Orono, ME)

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17 The year. The school.

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Colors without color. Food without taste. Not enough time to think about it between new phrases and new causes and the next band, the next relevant speaker, the next rally, the next day. the next pack of cigarettes. 16

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Those who always seem to know things, knew about October 15 long before the word began to seep out to coeds in penny loafers and cherubic freshmen in their beanies. And when the word finally escaped the clandestine centers of political planning and reached the kid who hustles from class to class taking frantic notes, the University Coalition to End the War in Vietnam had already been planning strategy for a long time. A strange group, the coalition. It was a machine v ith many components. A Student Senate grown powerful through victories in campus social reform, but soon destined to begin struggling in the bureaucratic mire of its own power. The last remnants of Students for a Democratic Society: hard-faced young men and women looking for new ways to change things, more effective means of getting to the people, ready to cast off the burden of their own national organization as it met in the Windy City and ripped itself to shreads internally. The Young Democrats, concerned, but perhaps a little more academic. And all those others. Young people without real direction, tired of their own complacency, searching for some educational truth and angrily opposed to a war that was pulling down the walls around them. A strange group. 18 A