OT--Weathermen?

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 3005

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> 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.
> 

At the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, the Administration 
building which houses the President was built in the 1960s and built 
in the same way. There is the front door with a small lobby area and 
an elevator that can be locked and a staircase that can be locked. 
Those are the only ways upstairs. But there is an escape tunnel over 
to the Michigan Union for administration to use leaving. The windows 
are very narrow, and in general, it's built to withstand student 
riots.
May be more known in Ann Arbor which loves this kind of trivia .
Most of the popular histories of the 60s focus on Woodstock, rock 
music, drug culture, etc. and ignore the political activism.

Susan

> --Amanda, lover of trivia