McCarthy and Kennedy fade as 1968 campus mood shifts
The campus notes a bleak 1968. Kennedy was assassinated, McCarthy defeated, and Chicago police repression damped student energy. Youth turnout declines, redirecting to university politics and the Javits-O’Dwyer race. With Nixon likely in the White House, the liberal program faces rollback. It matters whom you vote for or against this year.
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Impressions of England by a Columbia student
David Lehman a Columbia College junior recounts seven weeks in Oxford and England offering impressions of people places and daily life. He notes hitchhiking customs English politeness prices weather and student life at Leeds Hornsey and Oxford while contrasting attitudes toward war and politics and describing the lasting impact of the experience on his perspective.
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