ABSTRACT
In universities all over the world students – often with the help, open or clandestine, of junior teachers – have taken to the use, violent or nonviolent, of force. 'Radical transformation of the status quo' is called for by a Jamaican leader of student revolt in Oxford, a Rhodes Scholar, who declares that 'student power needs for its completion a wider social upheaval against authoritarianism.' The press and television – in this country The Times and the Observer are particularly bad offenders – have done much to exaggerate the myth of student power and to encourage a natural tendency on the part of students to imitate the exploits that they read about. If 'representation' through a Student Council were the only method of achieving this, or of reassuring the students themselves about it, the University might be wise to accede to their proposals.
