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- Title: An Examination of Latent Threads and Themes in the Catalyst (1969-1971) (ARTICLE 4) (Report)
- Author : American Education History Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 207 KB
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America has an over 200 year tradition of underground publications spanning a wide range of social and political expression. One notable period in this tradition was the era of the 1960s and early 1970s, and students' efforts to express themselves and challenge the status quo (Avery and Simpson 1987). Student attention was drawn to issues such as the Vietnam War, women's rights, and civil rights, while university administrators sought to maintain orderly campuses through increasingly restrictive regulations (Oettinger 1995, 21). Generally recognized as a time of changing social values, young people in the 1960s were disillusioned with the power structure and attacked the political, social, and economic institutions out of a motivation to become actively engaged in a growing counterculture that challenged perceived injustice and hypocrisy (Lewes 2000). Groups sometimes try to take their case to the public through the channels of mass communication when they become dissatisfied with the existing state of social and political events; however, many student groups found it difficult to express their views through sanctioned university publications and therefore chose the underground press in order to find their own voice (Kessler 1984). Underground newspapers became a popular medium among many counterculture groups. Students chose underground publications because of dissatisfaction with school-sponsored newspapers that were sometimes closely controlled by university authorities, or lack of critical social commentary in existing publications (Student Press Law Center 1998).
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