00100	                 FREE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
00200	
00300		The  idea  of creating a Mid-Peninsula Free University Alumni
00400	Association  has met considerable interest among recent alumni (alias
00500	dropouts) from the Mid-Peninsula Free University who are dismayed  by
00600	recent changes in the policies, activities, and people of the Free U.
00700	In a word, the revolutionaries have ripped it off.  The following are
00800	some suggested principles for the Alumni Association:
00900	
01000		1.  The  Association  will carry out Alumni seminars, be-ins,
01100	publication, politics, and such other activities as may occur to  its
01200	members.
01300	
01400		2.  The  Association  will  be  governed  as  a participatory
01500	democracy with a provision for referring very important issues  where
01600	a  group  feels  the  meeting  is  unrepresentative  to  a membership
01700	referendum.  It is to be understood that this is a  safety  mechanism
01800	to prevent coups rather than a normal procedure.
01900	
02000		3.  In  any  demonstrations,  the Association is dedicated to
02100	non-violence, and in its publications, the policy shall be  to  avoid
02200	name calling and exaggeration.
02300	
02400		4.  The financial policy of the organization shall be prudent
02500	enough so that finances will not occupy a major part of  the  meeting
02600	time.  This implies a very small paid staff if any, and a publication
02700	schedule based on the availability of money.
02800	
02900		5. In our opinion, American institutions need  major  changes
03000	to  make them serve human happiness, to stop and prevent exploitation
03100	and aggression, and to permit full participation  in  decision-making
03200	at  all  levels  by  the  people  affected  by  the  decisions.   The
03300	Association is not dedicated as yet to any one conception  of  "whose
03400	fault"  the  present  problems are, what the future society should be
03500	like, or how to get  there  from  here.   We  believe  that  a  large
03600	contribution  can  be  made  by  experimental institutions within the
03700	present  society,  offering  and  experimenting  with  new  forms  of
03800	education,  communal living, cultural forms, life styles, and ways of
03900	making a living. Our part is to encourage through  our  seminars  and
04000	other   activities,   discussion,   research,   experimentation,  and
04100	implementation of these revolutionary possibilities.
04200	
04300		6. We don`t know if everyone will be happier in  the  future,
04400	but  we  are  sure that everyone can have more political, social, and
04500	economic freedom, and we are dedicated to promoting  the  mental  and
04600	spiritual  freedom  needed to take advantage of the opportunities for
04700	everyone to pursue happiness in his own way.