Birmingham Southern College - Southern Accent Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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H ROLLS PAST SOUTHERN— SALINGER CAMPAIGNS FOLLOWING FALL •1 23

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POOR PEOPLE ' S MAh Traffic slowed, children stared, and the Freedom Train rolled past Birmingham Southern, while Southern students watched from the Hilltop. For the first time some were made aware of flaws in the American Dream; some wondered about whys and what-can-be-dones; but the Hilltop heard the sounds of wag- on wheels on pavement, freedom songs, and the crackle of leather. With the coming of fall and the presidential elections, Pierre Salinger came to support Hubert Humphrey and the social reforms of the ideals of the Great Society. When he left, some students heard the echoes of wagon wheels and creaking leather which they tried to incorporate with the answers of statesmen, and they were left in wonder. 22

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Frustration ran high in several factions on the quadrangle as the Presidential campaigns ran their erratic courses while Birmingham Southern students battled for space in front of the televisions. The campus watched as Hubert Humphrey conceded like a gentleman and Richard Nixon swept in on a wave of support and crewel work. Although Birmingham-Southern saw no student riots in the fall, there was an echo of the Chicago demonstrations in the form of a spirited, but ill-fated, panty raid. In place of Yippies, there was a collection of the more daring boys of North and Cullen Daniel dorms determined to storm that Bastille of sheltered femininity, Margaret Daniel dorm. In place of Mayor Daley, came Officer Scott and Bob Keller, who dis- persed the invaders, made an uneasy truce, and called it a night.