Wesleyan University - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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26 Though the student is broadened at college, he is also sheltered. Great events can happen in the world around him, and he is not yet certain of his own place in these events. At other times he can be only distantly aware of contemporary history h except as it may become the morn- ing's conversation at Downcy House.

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Very concerned with the great problems ' of man and society, has not yet truly moved ' o socigty himself. 25

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But suddenly world events came dangerously close to the life of the whole campus last Fall. During the Cuban crisis Wesleyan was shomvof its ivosyu, tower atmosphere. . The night of Kenne- dy's major address telo vision sets were brought into fraternity dining rooms and tense conversation could find few other subjects than the deathly seriousness of America's stand. For a week discussion centered only on the crisis: in the classroom. before dinner. during dinner, after dinner. There was, as usual, a reaction to the situation by the Wesleyan Association for Dis- armament calling for a' vigil for peace on Middletown's Main Street. But another type of response was also evoked from the Wuleyan stue dent. A group of undergraduates, disturbed by the ,, Rumored stereotyped picture of Wesleyan as a haven for left- violence due to wingers distributed a cinjcular signed by Loyal Ameri- ' ' Eans calling for a defense walk in support of Kennedy's :xlrfllffggllgfintlg uban posmon. , materialize. Z7