" (Haskins and Benson 51). This is a reason why the students formed Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS. They helped stage many protests. Many students in colleges across the country protested because they felt that the universities were rigid and "seemed to process them like so many cookies in a bakery." (Archer 76) The college students were so enraged that they started to rebel against the middle class American lifestyles. Thus, the hippie and yippie was born. .
Dictionary.com describes a hippie as "some who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle." The term hippie may come from the word hip, which means "tuned in" or aware. (World Book hippie) They were also known as the "counterculture." This is true of the hippies of the sixties. They enriched our culture by giving it new slang, slogans, styles, and ideas. "Their new lifestyle rejected the conservative clothing, short haircuts, clean cut appearance, social drinking, moral codes, conventions, conformism, racial prejudice, economic goals, and Sunday Christianity of their elders." (Archer 77) Boys grew beards and their hair long. Girls wore their hair long also. Bell-bottom pants and long skirts were popular. It was not uncommon to have patches all over their clothes. They wore love beads around their necks and headbands around their head. They wore sandals, or sometimes just went barefooted. Face painting was popular also. They loved it, and their parents hated it. "If .
adults admired their hair more, they would probably cut it off themselves," critic Marya Mannes said. "The only thing apparently intolerable to them is our approval." .
Unlike their parents and many generations of people before them, America's youth started to stand up in what they believed in. They saw problems in America's society and sought to change it. "Unlike the "Silent Generation" of the nineteen fifties, the rebellious students of the nineteen sixties became the outspoken critics of America society.
