Born in 55 here - and a proud Joneser. I was in college in the 70’s, and we were vastly different than the college students of the 60’s. No protesting. No flowers-in-the-hair. No ‘sit-ins’. I actually remember reading an article that called the 70’s the ‘nothing decade’. After the upheaval of the 60’s, it was a welcome time of relative quiet. The hippie generation was as far from being like us as you could get.
Funny, my semi-liberal 61 year old co-worker sits back in his office listening to the loud, raucous rock music, and I (53 years old yesterday!) tend to sit in my office listening to classical and Latin Mass music! (when I’m not listening to conservative talk radio!)
'64 here. I was in college in the '80's. I remember a professor - who was a Republican - teasing us. He said he remembered the days when students would have "earth day" and come to school wearing gas masks. He said, in comparison, "you people are boring." Lol... We all were accounting, business, or marketing majors back then.