Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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8. There are so many things and so little time. Each activity demands full commitment. Try doing two or three gigs at once, and maybe write a thesis on the side ... .. Everything screams to be done in the same day, month, year. Time speeds past or it stands still. Trying to do as much as possible, you identify with each activity in turn and with all at once. The combinations and permutations are infinite. Communities interact and share common interests. The strike leaders came from several activist communities and cooperated to lead another, larger, activist community. Each group had its own table in People's Hall and its own schedule printed in the daily notices. They were opposed by other communities, by people with contrary interests. Some, who neither supported nor opposed, simply wanted to enjoy reading or sleeping in the sun on the front green. But the community that gathered in the spring had dis- solved by the fall. New communities would form around new issues.

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People change. They drop into and out of different communities as their interests develop, seeking new identifi- cations, new modes of self-expression. A good athlete puts aside his equip- ment and explores other ideas and in- volvements he may return to com- petition, he may not. A one-time med-sci student winds up doing honors work in religious studies after trying three or four fields in between. A freshman conservative graduates wearing a red armband.