The phenomenon of the Kennedy campus and election was one of the most important events in the rise of student (political) movements," David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, was quoted in yesterday's New Times.

the first of a series of Times articles political movements in the nation's , Peter J. Scharfman '63, an of Comment, was quoted in with Riesman's observation: a new regime in Washington," said. "A young, vigorous regime, liberal students think: 'At last, what say matters.' The conservatives feel . They say: 'We'd better get and do something. We're rolling on the road to Godless socialism.'"

Campus Extremism

The article claimed that most of the campus political activists are exists--"drifting left of President Kennedy and right toward Senator Barry water"--and saw this as a radical from students' towering lack interest in politics in the '50's.

Discussing this change, another Committee editor explained, "You don't look college as just four years of fun when have to work hard in high school to join and stay in. Before, college was thing. More people now want , want to do something. They're for causes."