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1972-01-30 New York Times Magazine Article: ""Metamorphosis Of A Campus Radical"" Page 5

N.Y. Times Magazines
Jan 30, 1972 

"Metamorphosis of a Campus Radical"

At the University of Iowa, last year's window busters are this year's baby sitters, vegetable gardeners and abortion counselors. 

coming institutionalized. Institutions they say, make people subject to them, rather than the other way round. The projects they seek are necessary services they can provide free, or nearly so, to everyone. They have found plenty here - the Crisis Center ( a community referral service for every sort of serious problem), day care, free medical and legal services, the Women's Center. 

Characteristically, the radicals separate their "careers" from what they must do to earn a living. They will work 18 hours a week driving a truck to get what they need to live, and that's it. The rest is career time, which they freely admit may be no more than "smoking a little grass with my friends," but will probably include giving service to day care, antiwar work, women's rights or whatever. This livelihood pattern is a reaction to their parents' spending 60 hours a week at a job, only to 

LET IT BE 

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N.Y. Times Magazines Jan 30, 1972 "Metamorphosis of a Campus Radical" At the University of Iowa, last year's window busters are this year's baby sitters, vegetable gardeners and abortion counselors. coming institutionalized. Institutions they say, make people subject to them, rather than the other way round. The projects they seek are necessary services they can provide free, or nearly so, to everyone. They have found plenty here - the Crisis Center ( a community referral service for every sort of serious problem), day care, free medical and legal services, the Women's Center. Characteristically, the radicals separate their "careers" from what they must do to earn a living. They will work 18 hours a week driving a truck to get what they need to live, and that's it. The rest is career time, which they freely admit may be no more than "smoking a little grass with my friends," but will probably include giving service to day care, antiwar work, women's rights or whatever. This livelihood pattern is a reaction to their parents' spending 60 hours a week at a job, only to LET IT BE 5 (of 12)