He had gotten this small house on campus. And there would be discussions there. Or gatherings after showings of films, for which he’d bring together students, townspeople and faculty. Often there would be other locations as well, but the favorite place was in his house at night. As you probably have heard, everyone would take […]

He put out both good things and bad things, things that were filled with sugar. I mean, you know those frosty donuts? And of course students just loved these. And they’re not very good for you but they would be gone in a minute. But then he would also cut up fruit and have it […]

He’d have donuts and cider, 30 or 40 people sitting around his living room talking about some speaker who had come on campus or some topic of the day. He seemed to be very much in touch with students. To me he got inside someone’s head faster than anyone I’ve ever met in my life. […]

The “good society,” what’s going to make it good, what its laws should be, how we can interest young people in taking an active role in political and social problems even in political life, what does it mean to form a community and have people care for each other? One of the things he liked […]

Gaudino, and later on, I myself, demanded a very close reading of the text. So in order to maintain that rigor in class he also maintained a kind of formality that I’m sure everybody has mentioned. And those were people who later on, after Bob had gotten sick and towards the end of his life, […]