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! . , . . ... . SITUATtON INFORMATION REPORT o! A new student group called Transcendental Students (IS) has grown to bo the mort popular.atttacOion on the New York University campus. Basicllly hedonistic, the tranbcendentaliets have even fast .talked the University administration, floundering bctwccn Scylla atid Charybdir (between SDS and IS), into a $5,000 contribution to keep . them 'and their woodstock aura arientcd organization scdvcnt. Although thc party-throwing TStr8 claim-to be political in nature, affcring an extracurricular altcrnativc to both thc University's knowlcdgc factory and the SDS's nihilism, political activism secms secondary to%. - A6 a mdasura of campus popularity, TS will draw more than 500 to a music, pot, and love "freak-out" while the purely political SDS has virtually dirappearcd from the scene with a citrrcnt membcr- ship of about twenty-five, bat the change sought is life style in character. whcrc you can smoke g r a s s and drop acid and have a placc likc "Harouts" . (a rcndvatcd former Greek restaurant near thc schooI@s main building that was the reason for thc New York University $5,000 allocation and is presently the principal TS watering hole). that will see Dick Nixan o u t e f the White Houac andrpeoplc living there who will paint it a different color and invite pcoplc to camp on the lawn - we want life. I' The TSers want change likc cvcryone clsc "We want a society We want a rcvolulion TS at New Yotk University appcars a politicaliy inoculated bas- tardization al the original Transcendcntalisrn of German philosnphers Kant and Hcgel. nirrst bc dircovcrid by procesres of through (spiritual intuition) hcncc, an orangn only-bccomcr an orange (a hrtc, a shape.. a color, a feel,. ai1 odor, ctc. ) when tlic individual intcrprcts tlrc scnsc moaning to tliv intlivitltral. nlstr sehscril~atC b, a lrcdonietic concept (modern translation: I f i t Ti-cls good; .do it!), tlrc Ncw York UnivctRity g&tip, to distinguish flriwiwlvc*s hit11 front 11r8. wrsunality m l t o f iicw I v f I ratlicnlisni atid the nihilistic and pcssimistrc cxt87!Pf!tinlisni o f Jvati Paul Sartrcr (tlrc beat generation of the pokt WWII period) has adopted a loose .but classi- cal philosophical -concept to' hang their seeming immoraWty o n , Tho rcality in and of nature as scnsc cxpcrhnccs Sincv tlrc 19th century Eirropcatr trairsc.cntli*ntal ists . 4. I - , -- I I