“I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.” WritingWarCollegeBattleOffersMajorsCivil WarGettysburg Author:Jerry Spinelli
“The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of The New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.” WarLostFrontsNew YorkFieldsCollegePagesVietnamNew York TimesCampusCollege Campus Author:H. R. McMaster
“Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there: weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war, stadium sporting events, a night on the town, prayer, a romantic dinner, mothers rocking their infants to sleep ... music is a part of the fabric of everyday life.” MenHumansWarReasonTogetherMotherNightPrayerSleepEventsCollegeMusic IsTownsEverydayDinnerFuneralFabricEveryday LifeInfantStadiumsSporting Events Book:This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession Source: This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession
“After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university of Illinois the skirt lengths dropped instead of going up as they had during the roaring twenties and I knew that was a very bad sign, and it is symbolic and reflective of a very repressive time, and some of that was laid the feet of the cold war.” WorldWarFeetCollegeColdTwentiesUniversityWar Of The WorldsLengthConformityCold WarConservatismSymbolicSkirtsRoaringIllinoisRoaring Twenties Author:Hugh Hefner
“Growing up in the shadow of Johnson Space Center and moving to Texas to welcome our last moon mission home, I wanted to be an astronaut. Combined with my love for Navy history and World War II flight ops, and unsatisfying degrees in college and law school, I joined the Navy and became a naval aviator.” WorldWarHomeWantedSchoolLastsMovingLawSpaceGrowing UpGrowingCollegeMoonDegreesShadowMissionsFlightWelcomeWar Of The WorldsTexasWorld War IiWorld War INavyJohnsonAstronautLaw SchoolNavalAviator Author:Pete Olson
“In the late 60's I was enrolled at Occidental College majoring in philosophy and taking several studio art classes, but I dropped out. It was a very confusing time with the war in Vietnam and the social changes sweeping the nation.” ArtWarPhilosophyNationsSocialClassCollegeLateStudiosVietnamConfusingSocial ChangeSweepingArt Class Author:Stephen Beal
“The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a brown suit in the city. Colleges may be to blame. English majors are encouraged, I know, to hate chemistry and physics, and to be proud because they are not dull and creepy and humorless and war-oriented like the engineers across the quad. And our most impressive critics have commonly been such English majors, and they are squeamish about technology to this very day. So it is natural for them to despise science fiction.” KnowsMayWarFeelingsHateNaturalCitiesFictionTechnologyCollegeProudMajorsBlameScience FictionCriticsPhysicsSuitsGentlemanDullBrownChemistryDespiseEngineersPersistBe ProudImpressiveRespectableCreepyRefrigeratorsEnglish MajorQuads Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.” IfsTryingWarActingCollegeDecidedNewspapersSufficientCoveringVolleyballRetrospectActing As If Author:Samantha Power
“Foreign nations have begun to include information warfare in their war college curricula with respect to both defensive and offensive applications.” WarNationsInformationCollegeApplicationWarfareOffensive Author:George Tenet
“Do we substantially increase military spending and prepare for endless war in the middle-east, or do we make college affordable for all Americans, regardless of income. My answer: I will soon be introducing legislation that will make public colleges and universities tuition free.” WarAnswersMiddleMilitaryCollegeIncreaseUniversitySpendingEastEndlessIncomeMiddle EastIntroducingLegislationAffordableTuitionColleges And UniversitiesEndless WarMilitary Spending Author:Bernie Sanders
“No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.” WarStatesUnitedUnited StatesSuccessfulPolicyStudentsCollegeColdUniversityCold WarMaking FriendsColleges And Universities Author:Robert M. Gates
“My hope is to get young people to think about ways that they can translate hip-hop's great cultural movement into political power that can change the conditions for America's young, so that young people upon graduating from high school who don't have economic means to go to college can realize other options beyond joining the military and fighting in wars that enrich corporations like Halliburton which should feel guilty about profiteering off of a war that is being fought on the backs of those locked out of America's mainstream economy.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsShouldMeanWarSchoolAmericaYoungPoliticalFightingRealizingEconomyEconomicConditionsMilitaryMovementCollegeHigh SchoolHip HopGuiltyHipsCorporationsHopsGraduatesMainstreamLockedTranslateJoiningPolitical PowerGraduating High SchoolJoining The Military Author:Bakari Kitwana
“I feel like I partly came to writing through being in college during the start of the Iraq war, and knowing that those issues mattered lot to me, and wanting to go see for myself.” FeelsWritingWarKnowingIssuesCollegeIraqIraq War Author:Sarah Stillman
“Path To War was the last thing that John Frankenheimer directed, I think, before he died. I'm a huge U.S. history buff, and I studied the Vietnam era in college, so when I read the script, I was, like, "I really want to be in this thing so badly..."” ThinkingWantWarLastsPathCollegeHugeDiedScriptsErasVietnam Author:Peter Jacobson
“For example, an author whose parents fled a war but he himself was born in the country where they fled to, and that is where he went to school and college before he wrote his first book of poetry in the language of this country - he should be labeled as: "Author whose parents fled a war but he himself was born in the country where they fled to, and that is where he went to school and college before he wrote his first book of poetry in the language of this country."” ShouldFirstsBookWarCountrySchoolLanguageParentBornExampleCollege Author:Sasa Stanisic
“My parents, like others of "The Greatest Generation" who lived through the Great Depression and World War II, wanted to provide the best possible life for their children. My mother and father both attended college but dropped out to earn a living during the Depression, working the rest of their lives at blue-collar work.” WorldChildrenWarWantedMotherFatherParentGenerationsCollegeBlueWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War ICollarsGreat DepressionMother And FatherBlue CollarGreatest Generation Author:Dan Millman
“One-and-done is the most damaging thing in college basketball. It brings money into the college game, because it kickstarts the bidding war. When you know a kid can't turn pro and is going to go to school for one year and then go pro, that's when you see everyone going to games and courting players.” KnowsYearsWarDoneKidsSchoolTurnsGamesPlayerCollegeBasketballBiddingCollege Basketball Author:Sonny Vaccaro
“The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the members and commanders of the Einsatz group that were doing the killings, not even in gas chambers, but killing with machine guns, had college degrees from German universities and PhD's and MD's. Couldn't believe it.” BelieveWarGroupsCollegeMembersDegreesGunMachinesKillingUniversityGasChamberCommandersCollege DegreeMachine GunsPhdsGas Chambers Author:Elie Wiesel
“I got to college in '99, and I went to study literature and writing, and so within a couple years we had Bush elected, 9/11, we were at war, so I was sort of having my political and spiritual awakening at the same time I was becoming an adult, and that's a lot of stuff at once. I became very focused on the state of the world, and I started studying that stuff more, and I just had a real identity crisis. I couldn't even really just study literature.” WorldWritingYearsWarRealStatesSpiritualPoliticalLiteratureStuffStudyIdentityCollegeCoupleBecomingAdultsCrisisFocusedAwakeningSpiritual AwakeningIdentity CrisisBecoming An Adult Author:Gaby Hoffmann
“I played with English and Sociology in college but dropped out to work in the anti-war movement. I was going around denouncing the Viet Nam war as immoral but one day it dawned on me that I didn't know what that meant. I signed up for an ethics class at San Francisco State to find out the answer.” KnowsWarStatesAnswersClassMovementCollegeOne DayEthicsAnti WarSociologyImmoralSan FranciscoAnti War Movement Author:Dale Jamieson
“I went to drama college in England - the Central School of Speech and Drama, in London. I was there for not quite two years, then I got Star Wars.” YearsTwoWarSchoolStarsCollegeDramaSpeechEnglandLondonTwo Years Author:Carrie Fisher
“I realized how little I knew about my own country. I had grown up in the suburbs and, after college, I moved out of the country, so I didn't really know the place well. When I started following soldiers and their families back home, it provoked a lot of the questions about who we are as a nation, questions I realized couldn't be explored through the more limited framework of looking at the military at war and at home.” KnowsWellsLittlesWarCountryHomeNationsMy OwnMilitaryCollegeMovedSoldierFollowingI RealizedWho We AreFrameworkBack HomeSuburbsProvoked Author:Peter van Agtmael
“In America, we then made a commitment, particularly after World War II with the GI Bill, to massively expand our commitment to college education, and that meant we had more engineers and we had more scientists and that meant we had better technology, which meant that we were more productive and we could succeed in the global marketplace.” WorldMadeWarAmericaTechnologyCollegeSucceedCommitmentScientistBillsWar Of The WorldsProductiveWorld War IiWorld War IEngineersMarketplaceCollege EducationGis Author:Barack Obama
“In the 1990s - the period of the greatest escalation of the drug war - nearly 80 percent of the increase in drug arrests was for marijuana possession, a drug less harmful than alcohol or tobacco and at least, if not more, prevalent in middle class white neighborhoods and college campuses as it is in the 'hood.” IfsWarWhiteClassMiddleCollegePeriodsDrugPercentIncreasePossessionAlcoholMiddle ClassNeighborhoodMarijuanaTobaccoHoodCampusWar On DrugsCollege CampusEscalation Author:Michelle Alexander
“For those who say that the war on drugs and the system of mass incarceration really isn't about race, I say there is no way we would allow the majority of young white men to be swept into the criminal justice system for minor drug offenses, branded criminals and felons, and then stripped of their basis civil and human rights while young black men who are engaged in the same activity trot off to college. That would never be accepted as the norm.” MenWayHumansWarYoungBlackJusticeWhiteRaceRightsCollegeDrugActivityMassBasesMajorityHuman RightsCriminalsAcceptedEngagedMinorsOffenseWhite ManNormJustice SystemWar On DrugsCriminal JusticeIncarcerationCriminal Justice SystemBrandedMass IncarcerationFelonsOff To College Author:Michelle Alexander