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. . ..,- ..... . . .. . - . . - . Understanding of the student mood is critically important now. Knowledgeable observers believe, a n d details of tcccnt radical history s u p p r k the belief, that SDS is crumbling. The gap is widening bchveen "Weatherman" and RYM2" (see SIR dated 3 July 1969, pg. 3, Paragraph 2 and 3). Same collcRc chapterr, Arkansas, for cxample, are disavow- i n g a l l national level leadershit. There will be niorc brcaks and proba- bly at an accclcrated pace. The SDS-NO reins arc in the hands of Mark Rudd, a n arch-radical bungler prcvinualy a jokc among sophisticatc-d new ldft theorists and articulate activists such as Rcnnic Davis, Carl Davidson and Tom Hayden. Rudd does not have tha intcll-ectual depth or imagination to pull SnS back together but instead, like a Napolconic Sisyphus. m a y well be thc last (or one of the last) lcadcr of a mori- bund organized force. A dcmonstratinn flop (which is likely) at Chica- go in October a n behalf of the Conspiracy 8 will probably h e r a l j thc beginning of the end. - The big qucstion searching for an answer is whcrc docs thc radically involved student go from here? The PLP, the CPUSA, and thc SWP all have a n answer but the imaginatinn stirring, dirty fun and gamcs. encouraging, Dohcmianism of Ncw York Univcrsity's Trans- ccntlcntal Students has a n undeniable cldcr -dcfyinp, taboo allure that siniply can't help but grow (probably rapidly) across the nation. Thc? bellwether carnpuscs to watch are most likely Columbia and Harvard. - --. a. . ' - Frank R. Haip, S. f. , President of Whceliifg C04lcpc* in Wcst Virginia .was at.Antr Arbor in June of this ycat and witiicsscd thc block party rihts. President llaig wrote his observations for tlrc Scptcmhcr 20 issue of America magazine. vcrs of the demonstration torn collcgc scent- today when hc says that tlic prcscnt gcneratian is not more intelligent than tha studcnts o f tcn ycars ago. 'Ask 4ny English tcacher: The constant adulation hcapcci upin youth in thc past few years is coming back to haunt thc cldcrs HC spcaks thc thoughts o f inany obscr- and plaguc thc children. -. Rcvcrcnd Haig w r i h s : "Pcrliaps it's Linic to tctiirri to siniplc Iront*sty. Ypring pcoplc may bc wonclc!rIril, hut tlicy arc* young and thry nccrrl the* processes and disciplines o f ctlacntion and wcpcricticc* tn givc! thi:rn knowlc-dgc and wistk!pl to livc? 1hc:ir l i v t s in rich 1iiilrinn faSt1if;li. TIWY ha& to lcarn that xyliilc p u nccd ncvcr tclt a Iwnr LO a'bar. you must -tell a m a n to be a. man; have believed our adulation. -J We should stop fooling them. They- Now they .trust their immtwiate-felt