Interview with Louise Hetzler, undergraduate at UMass, daughter of Mass State College graduate (Sidney Liberfarb '37), and mother of a UMass student. Admissions to UMass and entry into Project 10 (experimental living and learning envrionment); life in Southwest residential area; classes in the dorms; rigors of classwork; change in women's status as students; first coeducational dormitories; shift in dorm culture with coeducation, impact of hard drugs; activism, Toward Tomorrow Fair; environmentalism and antinuclear movement., Seabrook memories; major in human development and semesters working with laboratory nursery school and with the Martha's Vineyard Program through the School of Education; returned home and failed to secure a teaching job, but taught in day care center in Chelmsford; songwriting; student activism and the Strike of 1970; spiritual experience during freshman year listening to Shlomo Carlebach, Hasidic singer; special sense of the time at UMass; panty raid at Pierrepont; memories of Hubert Humphrey speaking at the Cage and being shouted down by the audience.
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