Berkshire Community College - Falconer Yearbook (Pittsfield, MA)

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I. Q. t. l 1 l Q. cunts est FALCO EST STAFF NITY COLLEGE OF PITTSFIELD Alam-H yqf-S 'C' C, Activists at Odds with Nature the beginning of a e of the day, two the terms Hawk acting head of the Enition of the much J 'F ul le we And Tactics of 'Student Power' Santa Barbara, Calif. -Student activists are in sharp disagree- ment with .themselves and Fel- lows of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions about the nature and tactics of stu- dent power. But in a recent Center seminar here, the student activists agreed their aim should be to turn both the American university and ao- ciety away from what they see as hypocrisy, economic exploitation and imperialism and towards meaningful citizen-participation in political and social life. The three-day seminar was or- ganized by four university stu- dents who had spent three months at the Canter as Junior Fellows: Jeffrey Elman of Har- vard, Frederick Richman of New York University, Stephen Salton- stall of Yale University, and Daniel Siason of Claremont Col- ege. The conference was held be- cause Center Fellows wanted to hear lint-hand the views of stu- dent activists, one of whose strongest complaints is that the older generation is not listening to them. The Canter is a privr 'e, non- pitable to a learned man, a man who has some kind of vision of unified knowledge and is trying to make knowledge relevant to his life. lt is impossible. said Bar- dacke. for ithe leamed man' to be in the university because he isn't a good enough specialist. So. university students come into contact instead with technicians. with intellectual technicians who are uninapiring and dull no stu- dent can have any rapect for them . . . Moat of us go through college never meeting a man we would want to spend more than one year with. Bnxce Levine of Valley Stream High School, New York. said that the value of student activ- ism is not that one can hope to change either the university or society, hut that hy participat- ing in movements tthe studentl can radioalize experience and may change his outlook on soci- ety as a whole. John Blood, student body prs- ident at Indiana University. said the real job is ta make the mid- dle-clam students political . . . We have to show them all the incon- sitenciea and contradictions and

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