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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 4. 1966.

Civil rights

Civil rights

Students have constituted an important workforce in the fight fur civil rights in the South. They have worked in slums and in the Peace Corps. In arousing nationwide attention about Vietnam, students were so successful that the scholars and intellectuals soon joined in.

Teacher spoke after student in the teach-ins, marched beside him in the demonstrations, and recaptured, on the student bandwagon, the mislaid intellectual "voice."

No, it is not apathy which marks American students. Today, a surprising number of them seem to have discovered that yearned-for cause, and beyond doubt, new convictions have ignited dormant spirits.

Curiously enough, it was not in an American university but on board a student ship that I grew to appreciate certain distinctive characteristics of today's American young people.