Robert C. Koehler: Revisiting the counterculture
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
Apr 23, 2023
4 minutes
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When’s the last time you had your mind blown? Was this something that only happened in the 1960s?
Well, I had my mind blown a few days ago, when I took part in a sort of reunion I could never have imagined. It wasn’t a “reunion” so much as a reopening of the counterculture — specifically, the revival of a publication from the late ’60s called the Western Activist, a renegade (you might say) student newspaper that emerged at my college, Western Michigan University, in 1966.
The Activist! Oh my God! I wrote for it, indeed, wrote
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