Hillsdale Is the Model: To Deal With Protests, Privatize Colleges and Universities

Commentary My college career started in September 1973 at the University of Michigan, 15 miles from my home in Wayne, Mich. I didn’t like the school. It was way too big and impersonal. And its leftist milieu grated against my conservative conscience. The campus protests struck often from 1965 to 1972, but ended after President Nixon pulled all U.S. troops out of Vietnam earlier that year and ended the draft. But a pall of tear gas still hung over the UM Diag, politically if not aromatically. The year prior, the student government forced racially based affirmative action on the school—on the classes coming after them, so they weren’t affected themselves....