While a few of youth's restless rebels, fashioned in bushy facades, waged a papier mache' war against their fellow Americans for reasons varying from fear to intellectual curiosity, from fanaticism to sincere belief or perhaps just a longing for the highest of camp, the silent majority countered the move with the pen and a few with blood. Regardless of political philosophies, the latent emergence of SDS and YAF this year was a vibrant influence in arousing this hotbed of apathy.