The Conflict of Two Traditions

It seems to me that many of the troubles with which we are now confronted are due to the fact the the Spanish American tradition arrived in California with exiled students from the Argentine. They had been accustomed to student power and to professors who expected it.

They found in California a system which was alien to them and the found furthermore that many of the people who were supposed to be teaching them had lost interest in undergraduates and were devoting most of their efforts to research projects inspired from Washington. This tradition is very familiar in Latin America so it is perhaps not therefore suprising that the students from South America should have tried to introduce the rest of their own system of student participation and student power.