Yes and Yes!
My husband and I graduated and bought our first house about 6 months before Savio hit the streets and the headlines and turned the town upside down. We lasted 5 years before we gathered up our children and moved to get away from all the riots and street marches.
There is a book called “Subversives” that is a pretty accurate depiction of the tumultous era. My only bone to pick with the author is that he paints a too sympathetic picture of Savio. Although, at the time, I considered Savio and his cohorts street thugs, Savio (himself) is really an example of a wasted life. I imagine that drugs had a lot to do with it.
Why go all the way to California when you have Madison so close? ;-)