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Clockwise below. S«n. Fred Harris. Mike Seeder. Frank Dunklr. Stuart Udall. Gene McCarthy.
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Sunday. Sopt. 19. 1 171, was s wutin md heautiful day— the dny ihfr Utiivufjifctv 0r Mon- UiTia crfliTipus tJi- ' gart t fill up auam }U5t like It alwaj ' S did in tke fall. Only theris iveru to be a It ' w changes Ihj-s ytiar. Tbcr rreahmnn had been escaping h ros iiient more srnd more ov v Ibe pasi scVora! years ond fitially tl is year were iiidj Uiij ' iiish ' abSiL frum othtr studenls. The younfj peo[)]e of America had demonstrai d I ng ajjaiiist se|;r?giitibEi and dii ricniitfLtiuEs that H seemed off q ourse lo discriminate a iainHt 0at $. fal- low sludunt ju-sl hocause hi; happened lo hp o fitjWccinior. For that same lesson tht?rc wjis far firsi lime in yi ars fto Uvo labor availahlo to climb Mount SLTLtincl ajid give the iJianl M n new cojit oJ white paint, SomwmetriE il lo bri( hlvn l Hp iitt pfL vioLis prin with a muJtiliitdu of colors iti the fashion af the day. Bui even lhal paint had t ded by lalL Man wjis beginning !□ k ' rri la li av( mounlains and the Like to their own destinies. Bui stifl the way that M was faiiini ' away up there seemed some- how symbolic. For the first tlmt; in as long as anyone could rtimumher Ihcre were no new iaculW members awaitlnf the students. The slalp S budget was criaplt d in lht previous Jcglsia Live se ion ajia UM decided to cut cctrners by niJt hiring any new leaehers- Thf fraiMrniUes and rorititiii died ,11 littlo more that yi-ar iba« ihey had a yti ' ar before, the dormitorits weru becumtng more lib- erated. Nob dy felt the preasuru tn bL ' cttm a Greek like iiUidcnt had m the i«arly fiO ' s and hefore, and no one. notiubly felT s, wanted tQ Jive a clui tered dorititttiiry hfft So both systems wifTv charging. Many stu- dunt fell that the slruclurtr and snobbery inherent in the Grtyk way of Me was just ibe sort of thing that was dividing America. Dorm rej Sd nls were demanding and gelling a number of new freedoms— abolition, cff hourfi, the right to have visitors uf either sex in their nmna 24 hours a danr the rtghl to delermine dorm reguJa lions, fhere was even a strong movement afoot to crt-at a n w co- ed dorm where males and females would Jiavt i iH»nts on the same floor. There were nt. vir and experirtjonlal aca- demic programs la alleviate the drudgtyry tif the old world academia. Thy Indian and Blaek studies progran!$ were addt.d in recent years and were experimenting wlih new approath- es Id educaiion, A Ford Foundatitm grant al- lowed the creation the Round Eiver Ex- perlmtfnl. a project thai iewed the whol E rth as a university, A lotal of IIIQ sludentA wt ' re selected for tht year-lrtng prognmi vnd they isp l Ume in the woodsi, time in c: ss$- rooms, time with government, lirfit together, tinne alone trying to learn more about them- selves and their places in the universe. The program was dciftgned to help people fit in with tho natural cycle of life. Students were entering and continuing in school with absolutely no assurance thai thcjy would have jobs in their fields when they graduated. All evidence indicated that the college degree was losing value even more quickly than the great American dollar. The Spring Cif 1971 Whs one of despair foj ' the col- lege graduate in the job market, hut the spring of 12 promised to be even bleaker. Many of tbe studenis on campus in ihv fall ol 7l were (iflh year people— thojsc in no hurry to enter the real w ld because there seemed to be no place f »r them out there, A gigantlt new library was being construc- ted on campus alihough there was no assur- ance that the University would have enough montjy ip fill at with books pt even to finish constructing iL The library was being built on ihe site of the old football fieldK which was somehow appropriate beeauite many students were so concerned with hax-lng a good library and sound academic: program they were threatening to all but eliminate student fund- ing of athlolics. Both athletic direclttr J nek Swarlhout and business manager Calvin Murphy agreed that woyld spell a death blow to organized sports. At that limi students were allotting S7 of their $15 activity fee to athletics. Those opposed to sfiending that mueh muney there argued that contpctltive sports should he supported lety by those that eitjoyrjd them and wanted ihem. Mean- while, Swart houL had a wtnnln : fooib ill team guing hut cDuId nal be certain there would even he mganized athltrllc on campus a year frym then. So there were changes that year, indeed, but the biggest cliange of all was in the stu- dent. The-re was in the fall of ' 71 no longer a Joe College lypa. If you could stereotype the student at all it would be by saying that he was aware of a need for change, that he ' was poUticaUy 3rienlt ' L The demonstrations that began in 1 4 in Berkeley creait d a new sense of power in the American student. He learned that hv could direct a lot of attention toward hiscaust ' by simply assembling in a mass and being noisy. Unfortunately he also learned at Kent Slate and Jaeksan Slate thai he could gel killed and that he could set his eause back. The demonstration did come to Montana. There was a strike two years before and h march or two the next year, but interest waned in the deuiuiisiraljpn as a v ehicle for thftnge and by the fall of ' 71 it djdn ' i appear that (here wc uld be any more significant oem ' - onslrotions at UM, or anywhere in the U.S, fur that mailer. The war in Vietnam wajf, everyone flnaiiv had 10 admit, really winding down, although Vietnamizatinn was still very fatal le a lul of American soldtei It was a time for pre- ventive medicine — a tinie for a new approatrh tn foreign and domestic policy, so students began to get involved in parly work. The iS year olds got the vote and could perhap. ' S save the world, although disappointingly few of them Were registering. From a small high hool tn a town near Mi uula came word
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tbal the sludcntii hcJd a mock elcclion on sev- eral issues and v led for d pil l punishment and against women ' s liberation. mony oth r things. It didn ' t look good. UM students began lo gel behind the Now Party when it sounded like consisnser dvu- cate Ralph Nader mis hi run for president. He quickly rejeeted the n Hion, however. Semi- ea.ndidat.e G ne McCarth ' . foi whom students had bled in Chicago, stooped by cfimpus in the Fall qI 11 and it was sadly clear tbat he would make a yaod poet. cn. Fred Harris, a de- clared presidential candidate, dropped irt a while later with a charminfi and even promis- ing papuhat party proposal, but announced he was dropping; out ol the race the day alter he left eampus. Environmentalist Stuart Udedl visited the campus that fall too. Students JiIIenI the ball remm and were bors. ' d silly for two hours, We Icntw all that siuH- Wc wanted to know what he was going to do about it, but he didn ' t say. One of Montana ' s leading environnientalisis, Frank Dunkle, was here for, d, night and jfmilcd stupidly when asked if he was going to run for governor. His heart didn ' t seem to be in it. By D«Gmber it became apparent that 11 months hence ih re would be a presidential race between Humphrey and !NisDn and a Montana [?ubernatoriaE race bct wct ' n ii ocan ' didat SF5 wi ' sa wouldn ' t do the state Nny good. And still the students worked. It was nice that some people were trying so hard. It ' s just too bad that the trying came too lat . But wait. Don ' t get the idea that every stu- dent at the University of Montana was Out campaigning to save the world. That simply was not true. There were still tbo se upper middle elass products who drove sports cars, who w r beautiful, handsome, resplendently dressed, who skied in the Winter, boated in the sum- mer and ruefully awaitcd the return ot the panty raid tradition, To them the University was just another in a long series of play- grounds. They were headed toward the country club and the corporate . ' ilrueture,, both selE-destructing institutions, as we were to so rudely learn. There were still athletes who belie ved the world revolved around their interests and who relused to venture out$idL that world.
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