Kent State University - Chestnut Burr Yearbook (Kent, OH)

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Shades In addition to these two note-worthy crusades, Keane published a variety of articles in the Kent Slater under the pen name of Broderick Euclid, campaigning to stop apathy on campus. In one article he called for an organization to be formed with the initials S.E.X. fSociety to End Xenophobiaj. He defined xenophobia as the fear or hatred of foreigners or things that are foreign. In another article. he wrote of a widespread disease on campus of Paul Keane known as Aversion, its victims known as Averts. Aversion, according to Keane, is the inability to look fellow students in the eye when passing and smile. He begged for involvement: with culture, fellow man, noble causes, anything that would drive the campus community out of its apathetic passivity. His outspoken manner evoked mixed reactions from the university, some very critical, some sarcastic and others supportive. His work as a resident student adviser found him trying to break down the barriers and sterility of dorm life by creating the Implosion Padw. He had hauled all of his furniture, books and magazines into a second floor study lounge of Wright Hall, and created a warm cultural atmosphere condusive to meaningful conversation. Keane was a Snow Architect , a Campus Treecologist and a very rare phenomenon at Kent State. He was so rare, in fact, that Kent State wasn't ready for him. Above, Do you realize it's only one month since twenty million viewers saw Kent State students shovelling snow for Pop Fisher on the Walter Cronkite show, and only one faculty member has come up to me and said what good publicity that was for KSU and for students? 6 Right, We got 10,380 signatures in ten days, the largest petition response in the history of Kent State. A clear mandate. And then 40,000 others from around the country.

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i3'hr,1gk'gu hz ' 4 Marr fs, 'G -, 4, Q - .VI ff X 'Boa if ww M ' 'i'N-' 1 ' -V if' V And so, frustrated, disillusioned and tired, he decided to leave. In his last contribution to the Staten Keane wrote, When I close my office door for the last time on Friday, April 13, and walk quietly away from Kent State University, I would like to think I've left something more than my public image behind, an image which at times has been as burdensome to me as it has been troublesome to others. Keane, as the campus Don Quixote, explained, Everything I've tried to do has been an attempt to uphold the worth of the individual. Hell-- the fact that the university has had to deal with me as an individual is in itself a triumph in a bureaucratic world, said Keane with a smirk. However, just as Don Quixote had his faithful follower Poncho, Keane explains that he needs to be appreciated too. Admitting that his battles have worn him out, Keane leaves Kent in search of a new crusade. Above left, Under the guise of Broderick Euclid, Keane has constantly barraged the Stater with columns, letters, advice and poems.