Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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The anti-ROTC movement crystallized a much deeper call for restructuring the decision-making on campus, symbolized by the Corporation Room sit-in before the trustees. Committees were established and Professor Kuhn promised a totally new process by the fall. Standing on the threshold of revamping a 20-year old administrative set-up seemed exhilerating, especially in its recognition of students as young adults helping to fashion their own environment. Autumn brought a reshuffling of faculty committees and the inclusion of students on a multitude of advisory university commit- tees. The structure was beginning to loosen, even if it had not yet clarified the decision-making process nor faced the basic question of who should run Brown University.

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Lowenstein One man, hunched in the cold, looked out at us and talked to us, with us. He didnt dwell on unnecessary words as he spoke his thoughts softly into the mike. His face showed intense apprehension and profound confidence. He said it was cold. We couldnt feel it as we squeezed together on the Green, thinking similar thoughts, about man's capacity to experience the deepest sense of humanity and the harshest acts of cruelty. College was supposed to help resolve these conflicts by giving us an appreciation of man's academic accomplishments. But they seemed incon- gruous in the absurd world where a college degree is a passport to Hamburger Hill and the jungles of Sang My.