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The student today - whatever his faults -I is not the 'college kid' our parents so 'glibly expect us to be . . . It is not that the student will not behave in the old 'laugh a minute' style. He certainly will, especially as we give him nothing else to do. But this behavior is only a surface phenomenon. lvlan's life is lived in- side his head, in the consciousness which is the primal fact of human existance. What is seen outside is only a smoke screen, more or less effective, behind which life is lived. So when we observe the behavior which preserves the image of the 'college kid', the riotous search for 'enioyment' enshrined forever by a movie like 'Where the Boys Are' - the whole 'fun and gaity' motif of the descent on Fort Lauderdale, we must look a little deeper .... The student today is a new animal in a new age. A few generations ago, young men and women .looked forward to a life dominated by the effort to work and save, to provide for future generations and for old age, it was a time when satisfactions and relaxations were all put aside for some undefined future, which, if it arrived at all, arrived too late. These were the people who arrived at old age and success with the sense of being cheated, as Nathanael West realized so well - with 'fevered minds' built by years of expecting and imagining and with 'emaciated bodies' no longer able to support the constructs of the mind. That such men should have had a' gospel of destruction should be no surprise. And that it should have been essential that, as young men, as college students, they should have needed some time - a moratorium on life - to enioy themselves before commencing that road, there should be no surprise. This generation of students differs. lt has never had to wait, it has grown in the most unparalleled prosper- ity in the history of the country. lt has no need to delay. lt has no need to worry about its future employ- ment, about its next meal, about 'providing' And, moreover, our parents have learned the lesson of the past: that one can delay and wait too long. But human life has a tendency to run to extremes. From West's men who waited and delayed and expected too long -the men of 'fevered minds and emaciated bodies', has sprung a generation of students with 'fevered bodies and emaciated minds'. This is a genera- tion which has been dominated by the urge to flee from all the older concepts which were thought to make a man - obligation, responsibility, honor, and, if you will, sacrifice .... The process of making students citizens - of broadening their lives beyond the narrow circle of family and 'success ethics' - of giving them the ability to feel responsibility and guilt - of allowing them to develop a sense of identity - all of that would be a long slow task. But it is the absolutely vital task .... ln fact, the process might not work at all. You might be unsuccessful. But you must be willing to take that risk if you are to lead others to do so. You must have that true radicalism that does not care if it fails to change the world, but is more concerned with preventing the world from changing it- more concerned to be true to its own ideas of virtue and responsibility .... . . . what we must restore to the student of America is the sense and the vision that Frost put so well - 'The woods are lovely, dark and deep But I have promises to keep And miles to go before I sleep And miles to go before l sleep,' From the SBPC banquet address by Carey McWilliams, Jr, Department of Government Oberlin College 2
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