Starting a New Student Movement

The obligatory allusions to the 1960s in press reports about the national student convention held at Rutgers University the first weekend in February were as disappointing as they were relevant. Newsday in particular ran a photograph of a barefoot activist with frizzy hair and a tie-dyed bandana encircling her fedora, and a silly caption made the trivialization complete. One of the most healthy reasons to try to form a single national organization seemed to be to overcome the shadow of...