Student Activism
Contrary to local pride, Minnesota did not host the first campus organization run by and for gay students in the United States. That honor surfaced at Columbia University in 1968. The University of Minnesota followed suit a year later – before what is now called the Stonewall riots.
Read more about this topic: Jack Baker (activist)
Famous quotes containing the word student:
“The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)