In the course of the anti-Vietnam agitation, the 26th Amendment, lowering the voting age to 18, had been drafted, sent to the states, and ratified in a matter of weeks. "There is much speculation about all of this," Mr. Buckley begins. "How will they vote? How will they affect national and state elections? Ought they to vote while at college?" Our eight students today are more articulate than many student panelists, and while Vietnam keeps coming up, so do questions of domestic policy and more general questions of political philosophy. Miss Westbrook: "... that, I think, relates back to my first statement, that young people have given up. I think that it has to go further than the vote." WFB: "But how can you give up when you're 18?" YW: "Very easily!" WFB: "You just stopped eating popsicles yesterday." YW: "At 18, you're going to war, and you're killing people, and you're being killed." Miss Mendel: "You probably got popsicles. Not everyone did."
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