Arrival— "My mother used to say to me with great pride, 'We let you go to college.'"
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Background and Youth | ||
| Family Background—"Every time Roosevelt came to New York my mother dragged me to the parades." | |||
| Personal Politics— "I was a child of the New Deal." | |||
| Youthful Adventures— "I was a Brooklyn Gangster." | |||
| High School Journalism— "I put out an insurgent sports newspaper." | |||
| Campus Life | |||
Arrival— "My mother used to say to me with great pride, 'We let you go to college.'" |
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| The Campus Scene— "There were hundreds—more like thousands—of ex-GIs on campus." | |||
| Student Politics — "It was just and incredible period of creativity and ferment. And that's not the war people generally think about the '50s." | |||
| Academics— "The sort of cult hero of the college was Harry Slochower." | |||
| President Harry Gideonse— "He was out of his element." | |||
| The Vanguard Experience | |||
| Joining— "...it was the formative experience of my life." | |||
| Training— "...you can't wrap a herring in a radio." | |||
| Putting Out The Paper— "we all started as writers and then you moved up" | |||
| Working Together— "I majored in Vanguard journalism" | |||
| Ideology— "we were all independent" | |||
| Vanguard Strife | |||
| Brewing Trouble— "Why couldn't he tolerate what we were doing?" | |||
| Spring Confrontation— "Gideonse nixed it, we printed it. He was furious..." | |||
| Draugnav— "So we created a paper called Draugnav, Vanguard backwards" | |||
| Fall Shutdown—"We were locked out" | |||
| The Kingsman and Campus News—"They immediately created...a puppet newspaper" | |||
| The Aftermath—"it also taught us that if you don't have any resources, you don't win." | |||
| The Final Chapter | |||
| Professional Repercussions — "they recommedned that they not admit me because I was a troublemaker." | |||
| Careers and Life Paths— "I never learned more about the business of journalism than I did at that cub class at Brooklyn College." | |||
| BC After—"...we were part of the whole clean-up process..." | |||
| Life Molding—"Harry Gideonse in his way helped radicalize me..." | |||