Montana State University - Sentinel Yearbook (Missoula, MT)

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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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Clockwise below. S«n. Fred Harris. Mike Seeder. Frank Dunklr. Stuart Udall. Gene McCarthy.

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Everj ' ortcountitr was a physical! onu jjiwI ihey would still ]x tulking aboul, their accuin; ]jsli ' menis, in bars many yeans later, unai are thai There would no bars or people in them to Hsten. And there wre still the slobs and blobs who bad never dont and would never do any- thit for iinyoEif else. They would finish EChCKj], marry aomwne equally indifferent, have a bunch of kids, raise them indifferently and spend their whole lives bating their jofci and thf. ' trtselvea but direetiiig their anger lowatd anyone different Irom ' .hn mselves, Atid ihere were stIU the oddballs ;:uid out- casls who bad absoltitoly rejceted any motion of maili ng this A palalable world. Called hip- pies, freiikii, flawer children, the counter culture, ibey were ibe ones hateful people oftcji directed Iheir hate toward The long hairs who used druj s and rejected traditidnul values were blsmed for the ills of the world. But they weren ' t to blame. They were simply a product of a chaotic, erring world. Really just another minority roup, albeit an inter- esting one. They bought and sold drugs de- spite rtdicubusfy naa ive campaigns to pre- vent ihcir iran ctions. They wore ragged