/news/2019/09/04/convocation-speaker-to-the-class-of-23-we-have-the-power/ Wed, 17 Nov 2021 13:26:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 /news/2019/09/04/convocation-speaker-to-the-class-of-23-we-have-the-power/#comment-263223 Wed, 11 Sep 2019 02:16:00 +0000 /news/?p=126738#comment-263223 What a delightful and exciting change from the very conservative campus era when I was at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ (1960-64)! Bravo for embracing such a spirit of change! I was there for my 55th reunion this summer! Study eco-socialism, the new and evolving ideology that can unite large numbers across generations. I live only about 50 miles from ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ and would come speak about this if invited. I self define (now as an elder) as “an unrepentant sixties radical activist.” Of course by”radical” I mean it in the original sense of “getting to the root of issues. Jon Olsen ’64

]]> /news/2019/09/04/convocation-speaker-to-the-class-of-23-we-have-the-power/#comment-263222 Mon, 09 Sep 2019 19:59:00 +0000 /news/?p=126738#comment-263222 …and I had just started giving again to my alma mater – please don’t have your sweet little students call me for money anymore – not that you were going to get rich off of all 12 conservative alumni. You were doing such wonderful things with the Purposeful Work program – why did you have to go ruin it?

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