[Marxism] Why David Horowitz is Revolting

[Brian Shannon <Brian_Shannon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Historically Williams College is one of the most staid, if not  
conservative, of all colleges in the East. In the past, it may have  
been even more representative of New England "blue bloods" than  
Harvard and Yale. The reference to the "purple bubble" is only  
partially ironic; it remains an apt description.

To have this event take place at what is even today a relatively  
staid small college, is emblematic of the sea change that took place  
in the late 1960s and 1970s.

Horowitz's problem isn't the universities—it is that some of the  
students from that generation are everywhere in academia.

Brian Shannon
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Williams: That '70s school
Rebecca Gordon - STAFF WRITER
. . .

The 1970s as a transitional period, however, extended far beyond just  
changes in the physical appearances of men on campus. With  
apprehensive friends and family at home, even the purple bubble felt  
the effects of a war overseas.

Both [Dean Dave] Johnson and [former professor and Dean John] Hyde  
recall a particular incident in the spring of 1971, in which the  
administration was coerced into allowing classes and finals to end  
early because a large contingent of students wished to go Washington  
to actively protest the war before classes would have finished.

“I remember going to Chapin Hall to vote on whether we would go to  
class,” Johnson said. “It was finally decided that Williams would not  
have final exams that year and that you would take the grade you had  
or you could take a pass. The administration cooperated and the year  
ended early. At that point, there was a lottery draft as well; there  
was a lot of tension. The war was not popular.”

http://www.williamsrecord.com/wr/?section=features&view=article&id=7667



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