Northrop

Here's Northrop Auditorium in October of 1972. This was early in my brief, unsuccessful foray into University life. It was also right around the time I heard George McGovern speak on these steps. It was a campaign stop during his run for the presidency in '72 against Nixon. The whole Watergate tidal wave had yet to break, but of course McGovern was doomed from the start.

The thing I remember most about his appearance was when he played a tape over the PA of a soldier (a pilot, I think) describing the effects of the 'daisy cutter' bombs we were dropping at the time. Back then there was such a thing as an anti-war movement. Before we all became complacent and brainwashed. It was powerful, moving stuff. It seems impossible that any candidate would present anything so starkly and vigorously opinionated in these lowest-common-denominator times.

It was the first election I was old enough to vote in and I voted for McGovern.