Fifty years ago, a brief letter to the editor of a student newspaper led to a national furor over academic freedom. When it broke in 1959, the Leo Koch Case dominated front pages and newscasts. It remained a story for three years. Today it is so thoroughly forgotten that not even Wikipedia, which knows everything, has heard of it.
I was on the campus the whole time and later edited the same campus paper, but I don't want to write about the case. I want to write about what was said in the letter.
It was published in the autumn of 1960. Let me take you back on a trip through time. That was a Puritan era by today's standards.
Most universities took aggressive steps to prevent sex among undergraduates. Students weren't allowed to live in their own apartments. In women's dormitories, a strict curfew was enforced, and too many "late minutes...
I was on the campus the whole time and later edited the same campus paper, but I don't want to write about the case. I want to write about what was said in the letter.
It was published in the autumn of 1960. Let me take you back on a trip through time. That was a Puritan era by today's standards.
Most universities took aggressive steps to prevent sex among undergraduates. Students weren't allowed to live in their own apartments. In women's dormitories, a strict curfew was enforced, and too many "late minutes...
- 1/15/2010
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
The bassist from Australian indie rock band Magic Dirt has died from lung cancer, aged 37. Dean Turner, who started the group with lead singer Adalita Srsen in 1989, had been battling lung cancer over the past year. A source close to him said that he passed away in Melbourne on Friday night. The four-member band has had national and international success with singles including 'Dirty Jeans' (more)...
- 8/24/2009
- by By Rebecca Davies
- Digital Spy
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