Billy mingles
In a recent article for the Associated Press, Rev. Billy Graham discusses a generation which has been almost overdiscussed as it has been misunderstood.
Noting high suicide rates and general dissatisfaction among modern youth, Brother Billy did some investigating.
"I began to go to college and university campuses not only to speak but to listen," he says. "I put on old clothes and a baseball cap and went to a 'love-in' in Winnipeg where several thousand young people were gathered for their happening."
Brother Billy also claims to have appeared at several other youth happenings (sometimes disguised in his baseball cap as a youth and at other times appearing as himself) and to have talked with SDS and Black Panther leaders.
All of this was a part of a study of this age group for which Billy sincerely cares. Unfortunately, Billy concluded that America's youth are divided into two basic groups.
The first group consists of the love-in type, dressed, as Billy puts it, in "garish and gaudy manner." "As I looked at these quaintly dressed young people with their sheepskin coats, their untrimmed hair and their eyes filled with longing and fanciful dreams, I couldn't help but wonder who had failed them."
On the other hand, Billy went "to the other side of the coin" and found athletic, wholesome young people who were "strong, clear-eyed,
clean-cut and were studying their Bibles, singing hymns and praying."
Billy missed.
Contrary to what he discovered through his first-hand, baseball-capped study, modern youth is not divided into two camps, one constantly gazing glassy-eyed at rock groups and the other smiling serenely into St. James versions. Modern youth is much more complex than that, possibly even more complex than previous generations, not because of natural superiority but because of our modern environment.
Many people have tried to put our hearts under a microscope, and a few have found some of our weaknesses and a few have found some of our strengths. Billy found neither.
Further, attempting to align a certain morality with a certain group based on such superficial grounds as that group's attire or choice of hair length is preposterious.
But Billy is no real threat to us, and as a remnant of the past, he deserves a certain amount of kind treatment.
So if someday you find yourself staring into a beer mug at the Gaslight or Chalk and a middle-aged preacher disguised in old clothes and a baseball cap asks you why you're hanging around a bar instead of a barbershop or church (two of America's more closely aligned organizations), whisper kindly, "Shhhhh. I'm Pope Paul."
—Mike Shearer
Who is he?
Who is he?
The one that feels
he's so bad, he can determine
our destiny.
Is gonna tell us what
to dig and what not to dig.
Tell us how we should think
and how we shouldn't think.
Who is he?
The one with the flaky
white skin, and stringy
Straight hair.
Who feels he's a proxy to God,
or the Official administrator to censorship.
The one that's afraid of the truth,
scared to hear what he's been
putting down for years.
Who is he?
The one that's raped us of
our pride, and is trying to
bury our minds.
The one who has the nerve to
declare obscene, when
he has committed every
obscenity, of which we speak.
The one who is scared because
we've put a mirror in front of his face
Who is this man?
Hey, dig baby, now that we have the full impact of your importance, maybe we should like get together—so you can tell us what to print next.
Gloria L. Douglas Montclair, N.J., senior
The Demonstration
hearing voices—
The jury sits in deliberation behind closed doors in the courtroom pending the charges against the ten accused for conspiring to insight a riot in Chicago. All across the nation college students are protesting the charges against the "Chicago 10." As I sit back in my chair relaxing, I ask myself why these students are protesting.
This sure is "The times that try men's souls."
Where should the line of respect be drawn for the law? On what grounds have the accused been brought to trial? I agree that certain aspects of the trial are a circus, but the march on campus had to be the freak show. Students (if they were) gathered at a central location on campus at 1:30 p.m. The march proceeded down the main boulevard of campus and stopped in front of the Kansas law building to hear a speech by a professor of law. One of the longer haired monkeys had managed to climb a statue in front of the law building and spray it with paint. I sat there in bewilderment. God help me if my fellow students are following this barbarian around. Very few students could hear the speech by the professor who may have had something valid to say, but everyone applauded loudly, acting as if they really knew what was going on.
The zoo aspects of the march really came on strong down at the Lawrence Courthouse. I had run ahead to get a good location to shoot pictures of the march for a photography assignment and ended up directly in the center of the march. There was my long haired fellow student with his spray can again.
One of the protest marchers followed with a poem condemning all aspects of our society that centered around our establishment. If nothing else, this student learned how to swear and criticize in college.
I don't know, maybe kindergarten was dismissed early and he stole the can of paint. Anyway he was having fun. One guy yelled, "Don't let him shoot those pictures." I asked him about censorship and he believed in it!
Everyone was passing the beer can around and having a good time. The great Messiah said, "Anybody want to smoke a joint with me," and proceeded to pass it around. That's like a third grader saying you're "chicken" to a friend after his mother had told him not to steal. Talk about Common Sense, where is Thomas Paine? All the children followed the Pied Piper into the courthouse and proceeded to cuss, give the finger, and break windows. What fun! Once again my long haired buddy comes into the limelight. The police had grabbed him after he was pointed out as the trouble maker. "I haven't done a thing, sir," he said. Identical to a little boy lying to his mother. Several of his friends approached the police and asked what the trouble was. "The . . The . . They think I'm the leader," he quivered. "Come with us," said the bearded Moses freeing his people. What a joke!
Some of my friends participated in the march and from what I know of most of them, it was a gorilla theater all right, at the Lawrence zoo.
What purpose did this march serve? Support could have been carried out much more effectively in an organized lecture. Lawyers in Chicago are opposing the trial through legal channels in Chicago. The people in Chicago will probably never know this stupid march was staged, so why have it? So a group of clowns could parade and have fun at other people's expense. If you want to participate, have a constructive organization and leave the children at home.
Grant Dahl Winnetka, Ill., senior
hearing voices—
To the editor:
It is quite comforting to be assured that free press still is present in our land as I am, daily through your articles. I simply hope, or should I say trust that you are reading everything before you write about it (speeches, official news releases, etc.) and that you are completely aware of today's problems. I know that I am not all knowing but I seem to be aware of things which, although common news you apparently have either miss-read or missed.
Continue your devoted endeavors and may your freedom of speech, press, etc., continue.
Wayne Kernes Kansas City, junior
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Julius oinks
CHICAGO—U.S. District Court Judge Julius Hoffman, addressing the court as he sentenced Kunstler:
"I am one of those who believe that crime, if it is on the increase, is so in large part because, waitin the wings, are lawyers who are willing to go beyond professional responsibility in the defense of their clients."