Hayakawa says students are serious and studying now, and today?s freshmen aren?t interested in demonstrations as their predecessors were four years ago. He says he took a hard line against violence and disruption on campus, but not campus activism. When asked about jargon used by students he says the widespread use of obscenities is a tactic used by radicals to shock and shut down discussion; it?s anti-intellectual. There?s a poverty of vocabulary of students in the last few years; you can carry on en enormous conversation with a vocabulary of about fifty words. This reduces all experience into one blur.