A Connection to the Campus
(04/07/11 4:00am)
My wife Lynne (then Lynne Traeger) and I were on The Spectrum staff from 1969 through 1973. I was copy editor, managing editor and then production manager. Lynne was on staff and was also an editor. Those were exciting years, coinciding with the campus sit-ins at Hayes Hall, the police occupation in February 1970, and the protests over the Kent State killings. I can still remember the acrid smell of teargas in Norton Hall after the police rushed the building. There were many changes over the years as the campus came to grips with the activism of its students. We graduated as the Watergate scandal was breaking with Woodward and Bernstein's reports making journalism history.
