ABSTRACT
Naturally, what a great many undergraduates want is a total suspension of discipline — at least in all matters affecting personal morality. Criticism of the Press has always had a weakness for conspiratorial theories; in fact the impression gained from hours spent over newspaper files is primarily one of the ephemeral quality of their content rather than of any hard-bitten Machiavellianism on the part of their editors. The development of an international perspective to student protest has been the aspect most eagerly seized upon by what is usually called the quality press, and particularly by the larger Sunday papers. In the enthusiasm for these international and political perspectives it is impossible not to feel that an image of the university is being created in which the part looms considerably larger than the whole. When institutions as diverse as the universities and the Press interact the variables are limitless and to draw conclusions from individual examples is inevitably misleading.
