Raghu cites to the burning of the Ban of America at USCB in 1970: >> The current generation of gauchos are extremely proud of the >> bank-burning incident. I guess it establishes the liberal credentials >> of the community.. >> http://www.dailynexus.com/article.php?a=9084 >> >> It is very hard to imagine something like that happening today. >> -raghu.
I was a Gaucho in the mid-1980s. The Bank of America site was turned into a bar/nightclub called the "The Graduate," where I spent an inordinate amount of time, especially when they had their "4 drinks for the price of 1" specials. I believe the site is now a lecture hall. The evolution of the site from a BofA burned by students to a nightclub where we "burned down the house" to 80s New Wave and other dance music was not lost on my fellow apathetic generation of students. The article quotes Richard Flacks, from whom I took a graduate seminar on C. Wright Mills. Pretty good seminar. I think the sociology grad students rather liked having a conservative undergrad around. David Shemano
