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The rebelliousness of Brian Weiss extends to many topics besides the war. He does not flinch, for example, at the thought of race riots. "I don't know what took black people so long," he says. "The black man is tired of asking for it. Now he's taking it—and I don't blame him." As for university education, he claims, much of it "is insulting —they pile irrelevant facts on top of you and make you regurgitate them."
Yet to Weiss, as to many of his classmates, college was "a tremendous eye-opening introduction to life." With his usual cockiness, he says that "I can see myself as an excellent U.S. President," but he will settle more modestly for just trying to arouse college students in the same way that he was turned on by the Binfords. "I hope I can spend the rest of my life making people socially aware, making them think, making them alive."
HARVARD: Unfettered Eagle
Harvard's Vance Hyndman, 21, was an Eagle Scout in his home town of Mission, Kans., and president of the youth group at Countryside Christian Church. A major in Far Eastern languages, he once considered a career with the State Department or the CIA; if drafted, he now says, he will flee to Canada. He lives alone in a two-room suite at Lowell House, where his Oriental-styled living room is furnished with cushions rather than chairs. Nightly he browses through a red plastic-bound copy of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung—in Chinese.