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Class By BARBARA MURRAY Staff Writer Dr. Paul Blackstock of the In ternational Studies Department attempted to define the roots of the New Left in this week's meeting of the short course "New Left and Counterculture." According to Dr. Blackstock the roots are in the 1950s with the advent of the beat population and was spread by the media. "The beats couldn't cope," he said, "so they dropped out of the rat race, but by no means, all of them did." He said in 1960, the political 0< Spring ele Mar Filing dates for Spring elections have been set for March 7 and 8. Students wishing to run for elective office may file from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the first floor lobby of Russell House. A filing fee of $2 for major offices and $1 for minor offices will be charged for secretarial expenses. A meeting of all can didates will be held March 10 from 5 to 6 p.m. at a location to be announced later. Appeals by can didates declared ineligible will be March 13 and 14. . Distribution of campaign material may begin the Monday after the meeting; however, posters attached to any property belonging to the University or to any other public property will not be allowed. The following senatorial positions for the election, to be held March 21, will be up for contention: McClintock. Wade Hampton and sims - 1 Sout h Building - 2 South Tower - Capstone - Columbia Hall - 1 Preston and Tenements 25-29 -1 Men's Towers - 3 McBride Quadrangle. Bates House 'The Roost - Horseshoe (Tenements 1-20) - Maxey. Thornwelj, Tenements 21-24, In ternational House - Woodlawn Terrace, Carolina Gardens and University Terrace - Off-campus sophomores - 3 Off-Campus juniors - 4 0 views element entered the New Left and about his time, radicalization began to take place in the South, in the form of nonviolent civil rights demonstrations. "Police violence triggered moral revulsion," Dr. Blackstock said. "Activists predicted that police would be goaded into overreac ting." This has happened all over the U.S. and Europe, he said. According to Dr. Blackstock, after the civil rights movements got under way and combined with the Vietnam war, the hippie movement began. Dr. Blackstock said he disliked the word "hippie," but said, "you have to call them :tion dates: ch 7-8 Of-campus graduates - 4 Olffcampus law students - 1 SI 8 TRACK 15 ASSC OE LIMITED OFFI More than 25,000 soldi SEND FOR COMPL unsmm m --- -mm - ENTERPI mate chrg suite No. P. 0. Box Columbia, Send cashiers check or money ot service. All personal checks must prior to processing order. Enclosed is my check for satisfied, I can return the My Choice of Music Is: C Popular~ Jazz [i ~Countrv L i uL i Newt something." It was at this time also that the drug scene came into being. "In the 50's, few people smoked," he said. "Hard drugs were confined to a small, predictably criminal element." Through the publicity given the Haight-Asbury district and Timothy Leary, the hippie movement became the cultural wing of the movement, according to Dr. Blackstock. He said we must now keep the political aspects separate from the cultural. "Leary and others gave it .the flashy publicity and the interest in the occult, the faked up myst icism," Dr. Blackstock said. Dr. Blackstock said the political wave of the movement crested between 1965 and 1967, "with Johnson's real and symbolic rst Time 'ho CAR4 PEC IAL I CAR STEREM ORTED TAPE R- ACT N@WU n California alone! ETE TAPE CATALOG ISE EAST [ 1, 1105 Hampton St. 9264 S. C. 29209 Master Chi der for faster Expiration clear our bank Signatur $ _______For______ tape player and 15 tapes within Send My Special Packag Full Name tock Street Address City, State and Western Zip CodeA jeft s ri resignation." Everyone seems to have gone home, said Dr. Blacks tock, because the movement has become apathetic. In spite of the fact that the air war in Vietnam has increased, "nobody seems to care, he said. "I have no real explanation as to why apathy has set in." A discussion of why the movement has become apathetic followed. One person suggested that "one significant factor is that more people are into dope, into really heavy drugs like scag." Another said that "people were tired of having the shit kicked out of them," while another student said that "people rise to face a threat, and when they think that threat is gone, they go back and do what they were doing before." Dr. Blackstock said the only way to change is to "get in there--not Ever In ILINASI FULL0 PACKAG M TAPE PLA S POPULAR-SOUL-R JAZZ - WE! FOR THIS $12 TOP ARTISTS - V e m mm ma -m am me mnam am amu 7 Check here if you wish to chargi - Charge Card arge Card Number______ Date e Required Date ... Special Packages. I understand I even days for a complete refund a es To: ilow 4 weeks for delivery of this S., carry signs with four letter words on them." People at the top don't make policy, he said, they only think they do. Dr. Blackstock also said man is basically a political creature--he always has been and always will be. When asked, he defined politics as the struggle for power and then defined power as the ability to influence people. He also discussed several books. In "The Making of the Coun terculture," he says the fatal flaw in Roszak's blind faith is the healthy instincts of the young. "Roszak is saying that he is with youngsters because they have abandoned reason," Dr. Blackstock said. Dr. Blackstock said the point "Without Marx or Jesus" is trying to make, is that insurrection can only succeed with the army and police on the side of the insurgers. 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