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‘BL mIFORY eaves CONTAINED — HERE 5 DAT rie le. ~ e Don’t Call ey Si udents . Communist ‘By HOWARD ZINN Associate Professor of Government, Boston University The young man who burned his draft eard last week, and now faces five years in jail, gave the nation only one more sign of that defiant spirit swirling through our college generation these . past few years. Only a minority is involved, but it js vocal and influential, “The defiance takes 4 many forms: Leaving‘ school and family to 4 work with the: civil rights movement in the Deep South; protesting the war in Viet Nam; rebelling (as the Berke- - ley students did last Fall) against the col- lege administration it- self. Observers are calling this a “new radicalism.” But it should be noted -that student radicalism, with its mood “of dramatic protest, has strong roots in | the American heritage. ' Yesterday’s Radicals In 1905, writers Jack London and Upton Sinclair formed the Intercolle- giate Socialist Society, mostly to pro- mote the stn of socialist ideas, rather Santa J 18. fnen.game the First World War,” Randolph Bourne, crippled of body, brilliant of mind, who had studied un- der John Dewey and Charles Beard at Columbia University, was one of many troubled by what they saw as hypoc- risy: the pious talk about making the world “safe for democracy,” the swift- hess and sheepishness with which the population fell in line. Bourne wrote:- “The moment war is declared... the mass of the people, through some spiritual alchemy, become convinced that they have willed and executed the -deed themselves. They then with the exception of a few malcontents, pro- ceed to allow themselves to be regis mented, coerced, deranged in all the en- vironments of their lives, and turned . into a solid manufactory of destruction toward whatever other people may — have, in the appointed scheme of ‘things, come within the range of. the government’s disapprobation.” When the war ended, with millions of corpses in fresh-dug graves, and the world still not visibly a better place, many college students expressed their disillusionment in a militant pacifism, A movement. began at Oxford Uni- versity in England to sign a * Piste not WRITERS Upton + Binds, ‘ete and Jack London were two Goclalist study group Roe -promoters of 1905. Undicate pagd sndmeco hae" newspaper, city and state.) HA — 3 Date: BOSTON GLOBE Boston, Mass. BOSTON HERALD Boston, Mass. Boston, Mass CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR Boston, Mass. Boston > Mass. 10-2h-65 Edition: Sunday Author:Howard Zinn Editor: Thomas Wisship Title: Security Matter Character: fo) Osu ENCiNE SURE Boston Que be. oP Bry