Me too. I must have lived in a bubble. I had a rude awakening when I attended Southern Illinois University the fall of 1970. The place was filled with hippies. It took awhile for me to figure out that what was being passed around at the campus concerts was not "cigarettes". LOL
I had to keep my eye out for the Black Panthers, who would form a line and knock students off the sidewalk. The place was not safe. I got out SIU as fast as I could.
The university was in the process of rebuilding Old Main, which rioters burned down in 1968. Apparently the case is still being investigated.
Protests, unrest reached SIU in the 60s
I visited SIU shortly after the new Main Building opened. Thugs had already sliced the (tax-payer financed) leather chairs with pocket knives.
I wonder how many of the rioters landed Chicago government jobs or are now Community Organizers?
Well, we know Bill Ayers became a community organizer. (What school did he go to?) As I said up thread, it’s too bad he didn’t tune in, turn on, and drop out. Things would have been a lot better if he had.
I had a rude awakening when I went to college, too. Not as bad as yours with the Black Panthers, but with the nihilistic, cynical views of all the professors. The school was supposed to be religious, but it was in name only (just to get the denomination’s funding.) It was shocking to me that people claimed to be something but really weren’t. (Welcome to the real world...)
I went there later. Don’t know about now but last time I went through there it looked like shite. And the heavy black Chicago population is still evident.
Me too. I must have lived in a bubble. I had a rude awakening when I attended Southern Illinois University the fall of 1970. The place was filled with hippies. It took awhile for me to figure out that what was being passed around at the campus concerts was not “cigarettes”. LOL
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Did you ever go to the dumerock club?
Scuse the misspelling in previous reply.
That’s the dumeroc club between carbondale & duquoin