Portland State University - Viking Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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,, 74., W1 MM At first, we changed by simply not enrolling at PSU. Tuitions increased, enrollme decreased . Vote with your fee as the old folks say, and many of us did by walking to the nearest community col leg for cheaper ful ly-transferable credits. Voting via the ballot box was yet another way to effect change: the voting age was lowered to eighteen, and over seventy per cent of us newly eligible to vote registered at PSU. It made a difference, too, as a cigarette tax was approved statewide thanks in large part to heavy support in university areas, which would have been grievously hurt had the tax monies been withheld. Draft law changes wiped out the 2-8 student deferment for the men, and nobody was drafted out of the classroom this year. . . but the hated war continued.

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10 w W av w m m w W H , m w a H MN m w u M W One of us was killed this year, not in the Mekong, but shot down right outside his house here in Portland. wast year we lost another brother, an Arab brother, senselessly and sadly . . A From death through life we traveled, meeting friends both new and old along the way, becoming lovers, becoming wed, even becoming parents. We even learned this year, some from books and some fro friends and some from those teachers who somehow transcended caste lines and met us more than haIf-way. Where must be a special Hell for bad teachers where they all are condemned forever to listen to poorly prepared lectures delivered in an uninteliigible monotoneJ Whose of us students who are inattentive and lazy are, of course, living our own heH and imposing it upon our friends as wellj