The protest movement today has altered all conflicts and discussions, so that difficulties that formerly were considered private matters (such as conflicts between student and teacher, worker and employer) now claim political significance, to be justified with political concepts. (Author)

The eruption on college campuses last spring caused many members of the academyto re-examine themselves and the truths they had so long lived by. (Editor)

For 400 years the National Autonomous University of Mexico has remained at the hub of the country's intellectual and political life. The history of the University from the Mayas and the Aztecs, University expansion, upward mobility of students, and student pressure groups and politics are described. (MLW)