Archive Report
Archive Report
College Demonstrations and Protests
Shift from Apathy to Activism on Campuses
A wave of discontent is sweeping college campuses and pushing out the apathy that seemed to have taken possession of students in most institutions of higher education. Growing unrest among college men and women, and an awakening of interest in national and world affairs, have been highlighted by unruly demonstrations for greater freedom of political action on the Berkeley campus of the University of California, by protests at Yale against the university's “publish or perish” policy on faculty tenure and, most recently, by a rash of campus debates and student demonstrations for and against American policy in Viet Nam.
The meaning of this upsurge of protest movements has puzzled the academic world and leaders of opinion ...