1968 Changed Everything early chapter
Chapter 1 October 1968 Towering elms line the wide pathways crisscrossing the University of Buffalo’s campus: autumnal reds, vibrant oranges, translucent yellows all set against a brilliant blue sky. The wind whips up, happily swirling the colorful leaves with each gust. Students hurry in every direction. The commotion of the students arriving in their lecture halls is soon replaced by quiet as they blot out their preceding thoughts and prepare to get to work. For the lucky few this is much like the eager silence of a concert hall as the performer is set to begin. For others, quiet will soon become imprisonment. For the next hour they must not make a sound. Or drift so far away that they enter never-never land. Like the other lecture rooms Mitchell Hall is overheated, its steam radiators hiss while water bleeds at the rusted knobs. Hoping to combat student torpor, an enormous central window has been swung open