Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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The Mad Hatter wishes you a Happy Un-Birthday! And the man from the Massachusetts draft board says: We expect to reach number 366 by the end of the year. Be proud to fight for your country as generations of Brunonians have, even if the Uni- versity once suspended itself to support a revolution against the government. As part of a tradition older than the United States, students and faculty at Brown helped lead the fall protests. They mobilized Rhode Island in October and trained the Washington marshalls in November. From the campus- wide forum on Vietnam in '67 to political campaigning in '68 to the moratoria of 69, the com- munity's yearning for peace and its awareness of world events is unparalleled in recent Brown his- tory. s g 4 7 e ;w v Q lhf, e Voorhees

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Claiming that we would not suffer the indignity of human life any longer, we demonstrated our desire to redirect a country from war to peace. We stood with thousands in midnight vigils across America and at state house rallies. Canvassing, thinking, listening - we were both political and apolitical. Then there was Washington. In the non- violent tradition of Martin Luther King and Woodstock. Surging masses, sweeping forward with their frenzied cries for Peace, stretching across the Mall and rising upward with the Washington Monument. A stranger might have taken it for a religious pilgrimage; it was. 17

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4 O Rty P g .V. Y- -rhe squeamishness which makes culture something which one goes out and gets like a minimum daily vitamin requirement is being replaced at Brown by widespread participa- tion in theater, film and the visual arts. Student exhibits rotate in Faunce House. Omphaloskepsis sells student art. There has been a major modern dance program, as well as workshops in movement, photography and experimental staging techniques. Creative writing and theater arts majors have been introduced, and affairs such as the Novel Conference which brought Barth, Von- negut and Fiedler to Providence, or poetry readings by both faculty and visiting readers have packed lounges and auditoriums.