The DU's, as well as the aging hippie population, tend
to romanticize those days. It was a time of confusion, violence and little if any real reform IMO. I am glad those days are over; it's nice to TALK about reform but actions speak louder than words. Burning campuses accomplished nothing except the deaths at Kent State at the hands of over anxious police.
The left is only doing what they always do. They speak as if there were some vast hippie uprising when it was really a vocal few and a lot of followers who were only there to get high.
As a kid growing up in rural America I didn't see many hippies because they didn't exist here. Then as now, they were in the cities overestimating thier numbers and thinking they were superior.
As someone born in 1970, that is the impression I had and my parent's reinforced when I had teenage friends who idolized the 60's.