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Conclusion

    St. Edward’s University students became more outspoken for their values and beliefs on campus due to the social climate, like Counterculture, Vietnam War, Civil Rights, the Feminist Movement, and politics during the 1960s and early 1970s. As a result this led to a huge change in campus culture by providing the impetus for creating a new generation of clubs and events. Furthermore, the social climate of the 1960s to 1970s made students open about issues, such as politics, feminism, drugs, the Vietnam War, and hippies. However, by the late 1970s and early 1980s most of the students had become more reserved in their values, beliefs, and issues. Students were calmer with their voice. There was still some that were expressing their opinions, however there was not a lot ideas and values being shared through the newspaper, like what was happening in Sixties and Seventies. There was not a lot of radical organizations or events in Eighties. The students at St. Edward's University focused on academics of the college to prepared for life in the early 1980s.

[Student holding sign about Socialist Educational Conference]

1971 St. Edward's student holding a sign about the Socialist Educational Conference.