For several years at the University of Virginia, students had an annual tradition of raising hell around campus, burning tar barrels and shooting pistols into the air.
The next day, Nixon went to the Pentagon to clarify the point: "you see these bums … blowing up the campuses … burning up the books, I mean storming around about this issue … you name it, get rid of the war, there'll be another one".
Imagine what colleges would be like if students arrived on campus filled with burning questions that were meaningful to them and society.
Angry urban ghettos were burning and college campuses were roiled by protests against the Vietnam War.
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She expects to host a similar Obamacare card burning back on campus, so long as she doesn't run into administrative trouble.
When the campus of Pepperdine University was burning along with Malibu, Calif., wildfires in October 2007, Palestra reporter Stephan Holt (son of broadcast journalist Lester Holt) dispatched a 30-second news spot about where, and how, he and fellow students were being sequestered on campus for their safety.
"The burning question on U.S. campuses has been whether colleges and universities can really make a difference in the conditions in overseas factories," said Scott Nova, the executive director of the Washington-based consortium.
Then it touched greatness in the civil rights movement, only to implode in the years of assassinations and burning city streets and campus riots.
A 16-year-old Fairfax High School student has been arrested and charged with burning a cross on campus, the most recent in a series of incidents that have raised racial tensions at the school.
