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Vol. 5, No. 3 - February 2, 2006
| Tom Hayden to Visit Skidmore Feb. 27
His lecture, titled "Democracy and You," gets under way at 5:30 p.m. in Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall. Admission is free and open to all. While on campus, Hayden will meet with faculty and students in various classes and small groups. There are few veterans of the 1960s student activism who can share the experience from a perspective as unique as Hayden's. His name is forever linked with those of Abbie Hoffmann, Bobby Seale, Jerry Rubin, and others who played key roles in the street demonstrations that erupted during the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the notorious trial of the "Chicago 7" that followed. His later career as a California state legislator received as much press coverage as his then-marriage to activist and actress Jane Fonda. He has written 13 books and has taught at Pomona and Occidental colleges, and at Harvard's Institute of Politics. According to American Studies Professor Greg Pfitzer, "Tom Hayden's career has been so varied and extraordinary that it is difficult to know how to summarize his strange odyssey from 60s activist to California state legislator. With regard to the 60s, he is known best as the principal author of the Port Huron Statement, a manifesto that is credited with having stirred an entire generation of college-age and even high-school age students to move from apathy to activism. As a founding member of SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), he had an enormous influence on the early Civil Rights movement and then on the anti-war protests." Continued Pfitzer, "He is best known as one of the defendants in the Chicago Conspiracy Trial, but I suspect that that episode may seem to him a bizarre and even atypical -- although significant -- moment in what has been a life of dedicated political activity." Hayden's visit to Skidmore has been coordinated by Jim Kennelly, associate professor of management and business, and is co-sponsored by the International Affairs Program, the First-Year Experience, and the Office of the Dean of Faculty. Read more about Tom Hayden. Skidmore
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Author, legislator, and legendary activist Tom Hayden will visit Skidmore Monday, Feb. 27, for a public lecture and meetings with students and faculty.