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Mid-Peninsula Free University:
TheMidpeninsula Free University emerged in Palo Alto out of the burgeoning counterculture scene in the 1960s and 1970s. It offered classes on everything from intentional communities and "To Be Gentle", to sand-casting candles and "The Art of Giving Away Bread", to Maoist political theory and alternative education. It was formed as a reaction to the growing influence of the military-industrial complex on American universities.
[Newspaper 1968-1978, syllabii, Newsletters, Photos ]
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Free University of Berkeley
The Free U Berkeley was a "promise and a protest" formed in Berkeley, California in 1967. It rejected the "Educational Establishment" by joining in the "emerging spirit of dissent."
[Newsletters, Posters ]
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The Experiment
A temporary school started by the SDS at Stanford between 1966-67. The students took over a building, created their own syllabii, teach ins, and acid rock parties for 2 months. On April 4, 1967, The Experiment, a student-run alternative college, published a detailed account of "war research" on campus and called for a mass rally "to indict Stanford U. and its Board of Trustees for Complicity in War Crimes."
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Radical Guides to Stanford, 1968-1970
Procued by Students for a Democratic Society
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High School Redux:
Performance prankster Will McDermott enacts a grownup's worst nightmare and goes back to high school.
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