Before becoming face of Loyola Ramblers, Sister Jean helped women's college through 1970s student protests
CHICAGO - Decades before Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt's image was turned into bobbleheads and internet memes and etched into socks, she was among the administrators at an all-women's college at a time when campuses were at the center of activism spurred by an overseas war and a fight for civil rights at home.
It was May 1970 and college students across the country were protesting the United States' invasion of Cambodia as a deeply unpopular war in Vietnam raged on. At Kent State University, the protests turned violent when the National Guard opened fire, killing four students and wounding nine others. Within days, students and faculty at Mundelein College, where Schmidt was
