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I'm roughly the same age too (5.00 / 1) (#5)
by Deconstructionist on Sun Mar 16, 2008 at 03:34:55 PM EST
 (class of 81) So Reagan was President for only a few months of my undergrad days. The political  issues I recall being the most debated on campus was U.S. (and corporate and university) relationship with South Africa, the re-instituted requirement that 18 year old men register with selective serveice  and the then  nascent conservative movement complaining about profs who taught a Marxist perspective, but the campus was generally pretty quiet in terms of "protests."

  Back to motivation, how about just being horny? With hookers what else could it really be? I mean as a chronological peer of Spitzer's (although in better shape and better looking, trust me) I could understand the the immature  but human desire to prove to one's self that younger women still find you attractive, but paying them to be with you really seems to undermine not reinforce one's confidence in that regard.

   

No emotional involvement w/ hookers. n/t (5.00 / 1) (#19)
by shoephone on Sun Mar 16, 2008 at 04:11:12 PM EST


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ehh, contemporary - you're forgetting (none / 0) (#8)
by scribe on Sun Mar 16, 2008 at 03:44:02 PM EST
a couple things:

"We want pot, not paraquat" (when was the last time you thought about that, huh?);
The No Nukes concerts at MSG, post-Three Mile Island;
ummm, I don't remember much else - memory hazy from too much beer back then.

Princeton as a safety school.  Imagine.  I got the thin envelope from there, as did a HS classmate who went on to another Ivy.  Me, they laughed, I'm sure.  My classmate was told "Regrettably, you're not the Princeton type".  I'll bet - just b/c of the safety school aspect - he isn't getting to lecture there any time soon.

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LOL. It IS hard to remember... (5.00 / 1) (#17)
by shoephone on Sun Mar 16, 2008 at 04:09:21 PM EST
but I went to UC Santa Cruz and even us knee-jerk liberal beach bums found more energy for study than for protest.

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paraquat was more high school era (none / 0) (#9)
by Deconstructionist on Sun Mar 16, 2008 at 03:47:28 PM EST
not college as I recall. No one was still smoking Mexican in college.

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that's b/c all the Mexican was presumed (none / 0) (#12)
by scribe on Sun Mar 16, 2008 at 04:00:42 PM EST
to be full of herbicide.  Not for nothing that college kids are alleged to be "smart"....

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