Tufts University - Jumbo Yearbook (Medford, MA)

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throughout the chaos for our common humanity. It is time, too, to analyze our social and political values. Perhaps it is time to extricate ourselves from an economy that feeds on war and the ever-present threat of war, real or imagined. In realigning our values and our moneys we must come to grips with Newark, with Vietnam, with that awakening enigma, Africa, with violence and with the manifestations of mass society. Contribution and a commitment to humanity must be our basis for values. Our values must not arise from for¬ mulae or slogans, but from our educational experiences applied to the world. In thought that seeks man as an end lies hope. The “hippie” movement has organized its own values based on freedom. But, this freedom is freedom from rather than within society. As an extreme it reflects a possible norm but as an extreme it demonstrates a human failure. They have left, and admit that they survive only on our society. In the vacuum of non-communication, the “hippies” have failed to make their judgements on our values a meaningful contribution. The Peace Corps, the occasional agreements and meet¬ ings between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., advances in medical science, dialogue at the U.N. and its concomitant multitude of agencies which are employed in the fight against poverty, disease and starvation, are all points of hope that should be expanded. In such trends should we bring our knowledge to productive maturity. A battlefield operation in Gia Binh, South Viet Nam (UP1)

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A youth burns his draftcard at the Pentagon (UPI) end in themselves. When someone tries to achieve the goals implied in the above catchphrases he discovers that these linguistic exercises do not contain the means to achieve the goals and hence he is alienated from the society which produces such meaningless terminology as a substitute for direct action. Our system is slow, and productive of waste and a new futility arising directly from a sense of alienation. Four astronauts died in the process of another human quest. Man must get off this earth soon or there won’t be any room. Of course, he is liable to blow himself off the earth and this is the con¬ cern that we, “tomorrow’s leaders,” must reach some con¬ clusions about. Tomorrow starts in June, 1968, right now. Peace, that elusive concept, doesn’t seem to be a viable reality. It should be our concern to alter, to revitalize by organization, the fragmented reality that is peace. The question is, How? Are we to allow mass society and its penchant for violence to swallow us up? Is the history of the past four years, our peak learning years, going to make us totally cynical and oblivious, or shall we try to use our education to make sense and order from the chaos of present history? If we can do this, then, perhaps we can deal with the world constructively. Education gives us the tools for thinking. Thought, if it T$ to benefit man must look out¬ wards. It must search for patterns of order, patterns which are based on a concern for man and men. We must search

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“Let every man measure his efforts by his power and his sphere of action, and all he can do! Let him contribute money where he cannot act personally but let him act personally and in detail wherever it is practicable. Let us palliate where we cannot cure, comfort where we cannot relieve.” S.T. Coleridge —A Lay Sermon Military Police, U.S. Marshalls and Peace demonstrators at the Pentagon, October 22, 1967 (UPI) 10