Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 33 No. 15 1970
Impersonality and Alienation
Impersonality and Alienation
Their ideas fell on fertile ground, they were in an enormous university in which many [ unclear: studen] felt lost and alienated. Few undergraduates [ unclear: ev] experienced the vitally important and [ unclear: excir] contacts between the mind of the student [ unclear: d] the mind of a stimulating teacher which [ unclear: pro de] the most important of all education experier [ unclear: as]. American has always excelled in the [ unclear: ass] production of motor cars, but individual services, like hair cutting, or getting one's teeth fixed, are expensive and hard to arrange. Young people began to complain that they could only get individual attention by bending their I.B.M. card. No wonder they responded enthusiastically to the idea of student power. They did not know it was 800 years old, or that it came from Latin America. We all know how much they like it—end how fast it spread.
There is a worldwide subculture of [ unclear: adolescen] among whom communication takes [ unclear: plac] extraordinarily rapidly. It is astonishing, [ unclear: fo] example, that long hair should have become fashionable in almost every country in the world; and it is astonishing that the Beatles and beat music should be a source of anxiety simultaneously in New York, Liverpool; Moscow, Peking and Jakarta.