McHenry County Blog's Cal Skinner and his Sixties run-in with the Left

Cal Skinner of the McHenry County Blog had his memories stirred after reading some of my recent posts on the human hangover (Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Ward Churchill etc.) which infects "higher" education today.

While a student at the University of Michigan in the mid-1960s, Cal inadvertently inspired a "teach-in," in other words, a sit-in, by some faculty members at the Ann Arbor school.

The Wolverine eggheads wanted to strike to protest against the Vietnam War, Cal objected--after all, he was a tuition paying student and those teachers are paid to, well teach, so he wrote an editorial in the student newspaper blasting the idea. The op-ed made it to the state capital, and the legislature there passed a resolution denouncing the strike.

So they Lefties chose the teach-in to make their point. Cal showed up at the teach-in--he was a paying student--but one of the ungrateful intellectuals booted Cal out, because Cal "wasn't his friend."

Poor baby.

The whole post is here. And did you know, like Nicholas Cage in "Moonstruck", Cal once baked bread?

UPDATE 2:15 PM January 8: Cal informs me it was a Leftist meeting, not the sit-in, he got booted out of in Ann Arbor.

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