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trying to get it together. Thank you. Since student activism gripped the attention of the news media during the 1960s, it has become traditional to gauge the mood of the campus to try detecting the issues that will provide grist for the militants mill to try a new

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suit of labels on a new generation of underclassmen. University officials report a new zest for learning an incredible 14% increase in library usage last year and a decreased desire for overt revolution as more volunteers are putting their energies into community projects. This is the 8th anniversary

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of the free speech movement. Born out of a struggle for political expression on Sproul Plaza. Since then, to generations of students have lived through annual surges of student protests over racism, war and capitalism. Now the student movement has a history. The students refused to be pigeonholed.

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Large numbers still respond to a satirical analysis of american society by the mean trip, many strongly object to President Nixon's foreign and domestic policies. Students are channeling their objections into the ballot box since the primaries, student's are registering Democratic 20-1 in the last month, more than

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4000 students have been registered. The Berkeley campus is more crowded this year, there are 3000 new freshmen, the largest class in five years, they have created a no vacancy situation in the dormitories. Unheard of. For years, the Board of Regents have responded with plans to build

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new student housing, but in a location that has aroused student passion in the past people's park sensing the mood of the campuses like forecasting the weather, it's haphazard. Perhaps it is rather presumptuous of reporters to single out one issue or aspect of student life as representative

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of 28,000 individuals. Indeed, if 28,000 separate feelings were to coalesce into one single mood, it probably won't be known until after the fact Christopher, chow, eyewitness, news UC. Berkeley.