University of Maine - Prism Yearbook (Orono, ME)

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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

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17 The year. The school.

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Vet, out of this mish-mash of baggy-eyed youths who. in a matter of weeks would tensely watch the nation's first draft lottery since World War II, there emerged a sense of jubilation and regeneration of hope. The kind of adolescent and unconquered cheer that almost became a dead letter when John Kennedy was assassinated and which got beaten into the concrete during that hot, bloody summer two years ago. when the Clean for Gene kids found out the hard way that nice guys finish last. The October 15 Moratorium was many things. First of all, it was a word. Moratorium. To be used again and again until defunct. It was also a political forum, a nationwide call to end the war. And it was a field day; a break in classes. Some people took advantage of interested professors and went to watch T.V. in dormitory basements. Some people took advantage of it and got some knowledge. Some pretended to get knowledge and exploded their egos by slinking around the crowd with whispers of man, this is the greatest thing that has happened in two years.” u 0r M VETERANS ASSOC SUPPORTS I HE COALITION MORATORIUM TO END FI IE WAR r 19