Viking_Yearbook_68

I i 78 " I think (the hippies) are really a very minute group, but the thing is, any area that's kind of freakish , the newspapers blow it up. I don't think we have as many as we did before. This comes back to Student Government. " I' ll say that even though the prob– lems today's young people are faced with are more numerous than those when I was young, mine were most cer– tainly as serious. I grew up with World War II , the Berlin Crisis and was in– volved in the Korean War-life is very short anyway; you don't know that yet. " When I was in High School and Col– lege, we knew of drugs, but the idea of testing them, well-This goes back to the background of the family . If a survey was taken concerning young people and drugs, they would be sure to find some moral breakdown in the family fibre. When you feel you must jump off the Marquam Bridge to prove to yourself that you can fly . .." The facts .. . " Though they weren 't as errati c then as now, we had levis' and peacoats and thin gs, but the idea of long hair, reall y eccentric clothes, I don' t kn ow, I' d look at the kid and his famil y."