[HPforGrownups] OT--Weathermen?

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 2969

Denise Rogers wrote:

> Susan,
> even though I am 32, I do not recall this name.  Perhaps it's because we only got as far as 1950's and the Korean War?  (Majored in Socials Studies, with about 4 different  Histories in HS... still is "unschooled", lol!)

Dee, don't feel bad. I'm 36 and don't recall ever hearing the term "weatherman." Seems like we get taught selective history, and not just in history classes---case in point, my husband was in the first graduating class of
the University of California at Irvine (okay, the second, but the first was two people), and remembers when it was under construction. When we were out visiting in California, we went to see UofI and I read a couple of
histories, detailing the architecture, etc., etc. But nowhere does it say what he remembers was one of the arguing factors for the layout of the buildings--that this was one of the first universities specifically laid out
for riot control. All the original main buildings are in a loose circle around a central area, with no other natural gathering place designed in, so that if a riot or uncontrolled gathering began, it could be quickly brought
under control by sealing the spaces between the buildings. A product of its time, the 1960s (he graduated in 1967 or 68, I believe), but not a fact trumpeted anywhere today.

--Amanda, lover of trivia