Glenn Loury

Even though it was the Vietnam era, it wasn't, in my experience, as political as I see the university has become today.

I got to campus in 1970 at Northwestern. I started out at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1965. I dropped out. I attended a community college for a couple of years, and then I re-enrolled at a major university as a scholarship student in 1970, graduated in 1972.

I got to campus in 1970 at Northwestern. I started out at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1965. I dropped out. I attended a community college for a couple of years, and then I re-enrolled at a major university as a scholarship student in 1970, graduated in 1972.

I got to campus in 1970 at Northwestern. I started out at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1965. I dropped out. I attended a community college for a couple of years, and then I re-enrolled at a major university as a scholarship student in 1970, graduated in 1972.

Yeah, frankly, I do. First of all, not everybody was a protester or enmeshed in the ethos of protest. Some of us were just trying to get to class. In my own case, I was a full-time employee at a printing plant and a young father with a wife and two children, even as I was taking classes at Northwestern. My case is very unusual. I didn't really have time to protest.

Yeah, frankly, I do. First of all, not everybody was a protester or enmeshed in the ethos of protest. Some of us were just trying to get to class. In my own case, I was a full-time employee at a printing plant and a young father with a wife and two children, even as I was taking classes at Northwestern. My case is very unusual. I didn't really have time to protest.

Yeah, frankly, I do. First of all, not everybody was a protester or enmeshed in the ethos of protest. Some of us were just trying to get to class. In my own case, I was a full-time employee at a printing plant and a young father with a wife and two children, even as I was taking classes at Northwestern. My case is very unusual. I didn't really have time to protest.

But it wasn't even for the other students. It wasn't all consuming. There were intense, engaged protest students, but there were also kids just going about their business.

But it wasn't even for the other students. It wasn't all consuming. There were intense, engaged protest students, but there were also kids just going about their business.

But it wasn't even for the other students. It wasn't all consuming. There were intense, engaged protest students, but there were also kids just going about their business.

I was a clerk. They called me a timekeeper and a bonus estimator. We had these decks of IBM punch cards, and I would write on each one the employee's name, the number of hours they spent on what task, and sometimes I'd have to estimate whether or not their productivity count entitled them to bonus payment.

I was a clerk. They called me a timekeeper and a bonus estimator. We had these decks of IBM punch cards, and I would write on each one the employee's name, the number of hours they spent on what task, and sometimes I'd have to estimate whether or not their productivity count entitled them to bonus payment.

I was a clerk. They called me a timekeeper and a bonus estimator. We had these decks of IBM punch cards, and I would write on each one the employee's name, the number of hours they spent on what task, and sometimes I'd have to estimate whether or not their productivity count entitled them to bonus payment.

and take at the end of the shift my deck of IBM punch cards to the offices where the young women would key punch them up, and then they would go into the process of the mainframe computer congestion. It was pretty antiquated, but that's how we kept track of the accounting. So I was a clerk.

and take at the end of the shift my deck of IBM punch cards to the offices where the young women would key punch them up, and then they would go into the process of the mainframe computer congestion. It was pretty antiquated, but that's how we kept track of the accounting. So I was a clerk.

and take at the end of the shift my deck of IBM punch cards to the offices where the young women would key punch them up, and then they would go into the process of the mainframe computer congestion. It was pretty antiquated, but that's how we kept track of the accounting. So I was a clerk.

Everything. This was R.R. Donnelly and Sons, a big concern. Lakeside Press is what they called the campus. A couple of miles, three miles south of the loop on the lakefront in Chicago, maybe a dozen or so factory-style buildings.

Everything. This was R.R. Donnelly and Sons, a big concern. Lakeside Press is what they called the campus. A couple of miles, three miles south of the loop on the lakefront in Chicago, maybe a dozen or so factory-style buildings.

Everything. This was R.R. Donnelly and Sons, a big concern. Lakeside Press is what they called the campus. A couple of miles, three miles south of the loop on the lakefront in Chicago, maybe a dozen or so factory-style buildings.

railroad tracks running alongside huge rolls of printing paper, these monstrous machines, which were the presses, craftsmen everywhere from the people who ran the presses to the people who engraved the plates to the people who They cultivated the photographs that had to be made into images. They printed Time magazine, Life magazine, Sports Illustrated, Newsweek. They printed telephone books.