Manchester College - Aurora Yearbook (North Manchester, IN)

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And that life you see is good, isn ' t it? Well, isn ' t it? You say that things are not all that good. Well then, get up and do something about it! You only have to breathe to know that the air needs cleaning. In fact, the whole world has been raped and defiled. You can only die trying— but you may do that anyway; people are in St. Louis are (Right). Credit— Right: Robert C. Holt, Jr., staff photographer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch in Environment. 18

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You say you ' ve found your people. All right move out from there to the area that surrounds everyone— Nature. A bunch of trees, a lot of dirt, here and there some water. So what! Look again. Maybe you can see the wind- whipped trees against the violent background of turbulent clouds. Or the comical romping of two fawns. You might even see the solitary, serene gliding of an albino pigeon at sunset. You see action. You see calmness. You see life. 17

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And that ' s not all that ' s wrong with this world. Other problems need to be solved. Almost a ll of them involve people, too. Ask any black why he is trying to change the world and all he has to do is point the quality of black life in Newark, New Jersey (Left). Question an Indian why he feels slighted and he ' ll remember Chief Big Foot lying dead in the snow at the sight of the Wounded Knee Massacre on December 28, 1890 (Lower left). Whistle at a woman and you may get more than you asked for (Below). But face it, they have been down-trodden for too long. Chicanos and gays feel the same way. What should you do? Stand up and earn the right to call yourself human. Credits. Left: Ken Heyman in Mobil World. Lower left: Smithsonian Institution National Anthropological Archives negative number 3200-B-2 in Life. Below: Michael Abramson in Time. 19