Interview with David Orr, 1998

Interview with David Orr, 1998

Transcription: "Just think of this: it’s 1969, ’70, ’71. It’s partly a reflection of the sixties. You’ve got students who are saying, you know, ‘Why do I have to take these particular courses, in this particular order? I can learn better if you just let me do some of these things. Or maybe I shouldn’t be graded in all this stuff, because then I’m trying to focus on this rather than…”…But this time at Mundelein, what you really had was good students who were on the edge. Remember, I attribute it to the sixties. Good students who were on the edge of adulthood. And progressivism or even radicalism—Because all this swirled around them, you know, the Civil Right Movement, the Vietnam War, all the youthful energy created by all that stuff, including the youthful disappointments at all the horrible things that were happening in ’68, ’69, ’70."

Mundelein College Oral History Collection