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Humane Scale

Mr. Kirk said the students
demonstrating here last month
"were protesting in favor of the
purpose of a university. A
university is supposed to be an
academic community, on a humane
scale. President Shannon and his
administrators, and some other
misguided folk, in the seats of the
mighty, are trying to convert the
university into another academic
collectivity, a Behemoth A. & M."

"More than a hundred student
organizations joined this cheerful
but serious protest-nearly every
student organization on the
campus," Mr. Kirk explained. "And
they were right to join.