their electoral impotence and their love of a country which they believed to be abandon its ideals. many more worked quietly and effectively within a system that gave them scant recognition. and in the land of vietnam, they lie as proof that death accords youth no protected status. their struggle for recognition divided a nation against itself. congress and more than three-fourths of states have now determined in their wisdom that youth shall have a new birth of freedom, the franchise, rights won at the cost of so much individual and societal suffering may not and shall not be curtailed on the basis of fictions that these men and women are children tied to residential apron strings. dang. in other words, students can vote where they go to college. settled. the holdout of all holdouts, the place where they dug in harder than anywhere else to try to make that not so, was this place, waller county, texas. waller county is not all that far from houston, but is a relatively rural county. it has one university called prairie view a&m. prairie view is a historically black university, founded after the civil war on old plantation