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STUDENT LEADER (Continued): We want this university to take a firm position of peace in this world. The townspeople just don't seem to understand that a 20-year- old does not want to go half way around the world to fight and die in an endless war for questionable ends. REPORTER: In my next life, I plan to be an outside agitator. I always liked to travel and those cats seem to be everywhere. Everything I read today about civil strife, it is being whipped up by outside agitators. I could make every tourist scene....Rome, Washington, Paris, Montreal. I think I'd like to be an outside agitator in the Bahamas. STUDENT LEADER: Well, it's Sunday morning. The weather is still pleasant.... about 65 degrees and sunny. The Guard is all over the campus, but most of them are standing around that pile of rubble that was once ROTC. Just what they were guarding is not clearly understood. The president of the college is not on campus. He was out-of-state on a speaking assignment, probably at one of the schools still open....this is one of the things we wanted to discuss with him. With feelings running so high, it was the feeling of rational student leaders that this place should be closed down. Tight. End the school year. My best friend told me that he was at his end, anyway. The draft boards were working overtime....he wore a button that read....TRY LYNDON JOHNSON AS A WAR CRIMINAL. he should have had one reading ROBERT McNAMARA...(Departs.) REPORTER: So, he was one administration behind. The university president is back in town, but he doesn't control his school. Neither do the students. They are on their turf. The townspeople are in their Page 14 |