1968 — A HISTORICAL NOVEL: CHAPTER 12
Chaos at Columbia
Across a fractured and wounded country, college campuses were exploding in protest over Vietnam, racism, and pretty much everything
The first time Kathleen McDonald saw Mark Rudd on campus at Columbia University, she thought he was an irascible loud-mouth who was just trying to cause trouble, a rebel with way too many causes, though his favorite was Vietnam.
This guy was pissed off all the time, and his was a distinct voice that resonated up and down College Walk, his bullhorn louder than all the others at the Sundial rallies that were becoming a weekly occurrence. Rudd was the leader of Columbia’s chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, and he and his sycophants were constantly pushing their SDS agenda on anyone who walked by their daily literature table on the Walk. Kathleen, then a meek and unknowing freshman, wanted nothing to do with any of it and she made it a point to rush past the table, or avoid it altogether.
PREVIOUS CHAPTERS IN 1968
Chapter 1: Vince Lombardi Knew it Was Time to Leave the Packers
Chapter 2: From the Horrors of War to the Press Boxes of America
