In Georgia I had to go through two home-stays in a week at the beginning because they just weren’t good placements. My first one with the son of the mayor and he was a young bachelor, swinging guy, and he was out all the time. He was never home. He was always out partying so […]

While we were down there, I was going out with a girl in the town and she was white, a younger girl. She was in high school. Because the girl was white she literally lived across the tracks. And so I had been over to her house. It was like midnight and I was coming […]

That was Jesus

I probably got more out of Georgia, not just working in a funeral home but the whole black/white thing. I didn’t do embalming but drove the ambulance, drove the hearse, would go to all the funerals, would be there when families would pick out caskets. It was a black funeral home and it was a […]

I was really bummed by the time I got done with Appalachia. I mean it was boring. It was raining the whole time. I was living with a disabled, retired coal miner and his wife. We were doing nothing. They had an old black-and-white television set and it was almost surreal to be watching President […]

I actually in Iowa, I was thinking about dropping out some and doing VISTA [the “Domestic Peace Corps”] because I just felt like in Iowa “Why go back to Williams?” Having just been in Appalachia, a black family in Georgia, Iowa was too comfortable for me. Hey, it’s comfortable, it’s middle class, but this is […]

You sound like you’re lucky you weren’t scarred by Williams-at-Home between Georgia and…

The interesting thing with Williams-at-Home for me was that a lot of my learning happened after I got back. The junior year in particular, the year right after I got back, was really the first time that I understood how controversial Williams-at-Home was and how it had barely been approved by the faculty. And then […]

I don’t don’t remember if he taught or not, but we had a few sessions with him. We were often going over there. He had people over for ice cream, Breyer’s peach ice cream, or for little things like that. He had the parents come back one weekend. We were doing these debates about experiential […]

Samuels’ Presentation: Disagrees with the CEP minority report that education must be useful for life–he argues it need not be; argues that the college should state that it exists to teach Ulysses, that one must know Faulkner–that this is the supreme value of college, even if you (the student) then go out and burn Jews […]

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