Northern Illinois University - Norther Yearbook (DeKalb, IL)

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What is the phrase we so often hear people shout lately? . . . DO YOUR OWN THING . . . EVERYBODY. A Tremendous thing is happening on our campus because students are doing iust that - and in a big vvay. Most' of us are interested in the national issues: vvar, welfare, op- pression of minorities, government changes, freedoms. But we have many different feelings about our roles and the solutions for problems. Organizations exist all over the NlU campus containing very interested and highly informed kids who think and rap and act upon their similar feelings and solutions. Students are proving interested in the country in immediate ways. On one end there are theLStudents for Bakalis and the Movement for a New Congress putting in time for candi- dates and training to become effec- tice campaigners to insure a future for their movement. Involved, from people working in the NIU Democrats for Stevenson or the College Republicans working for Ray Page or Senator Smith. On another extreme, the Student Mobilization Committee is much con- cerned about the suppressed groups, the war and related issues, such as ROTC. Similarly, the NIU Progressives are concerned about minorities and the unawareness of need for change to a communal spirit. Both of these are ready to protest, but with a marked desire for peace. So we can expect to see them marching for peace, womens liberation or constructing a Weekend discussion of the U. S. Constitution. Thinking people in the Young So- cialist Alliance proport a socialist revolution and conduct classes on Marxism, or invite speakers like Madeline Dilly on campus. There are rap groups, like the Young Ameri- cans for Freedom who discuss laissez- faire government, and liberty, or sim- ilarly, the Libertarians who talk about Ayn Rand and seek total anarchy. There are so many directions. How about the Coalition for an Anti-Imper- ial Movement, the Model U.N., Stu- dents for a Democratic Society, Stu- dents for Harold Hugres? There is action and thought in any and every corner. lt's to be found -- Northern has intellectuals and inter- ested people, in all directions! POLITICS earching for the Answers TOP LEFT: University Democrats offered students an opportunity to meet Michael Bakalis, candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction. FAR RIGHT: The Rags provided entertainment at Zero Popular tion Concert early last Fall. LEFT: YSA joins in the search for Utopia. BOTTOM: Student Mobilization Committee offers a wide variety of literature at a meeting telling What it's all about. 51, fl.-71S Q rd .