ABSTRACT
The campus crisis is interlocked with the other crises under consideration in the symposium. Iceberglike, the crisis on the campus has massive components that lie beneath the surface, as well as visible crags and peaks. The wave of student protest is a surface symptom, a sign that the patient is alive, rather than an indication of mortal illness. Student Power and Black Power are both offspring of the early glories of the civil-rights effort. In the 1930's there were the Depression, the threat of war, fascism, and the prominent appeal of Marxism; today there is the civil-rights movement, Vietnam, and the ever-present threat of nuclear holocaust as the silent background of contemporary life. The earlier set of prominent issues and causes may have tended to propel students who were politically and socially aware in the direction of ideology and pragmatic political organization, the present set more toward moral concerns and direct existential gestures.
