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Interview With Alan Goldman
Alan Goldman was a former graduate of the Ivy League Brown University as well as a doctorate student at the university during the height of the Vietnam War. In a personal interview, he stated that “during the height of the antiwar protests I was taking a seminar class… none of the students would talk to me and would isolate me because I was supportive of the government because of my background.” From the interview he also stated that they would label him as “poison” and they “would be paranoid” when a kid would say something in favor of the antiwar movement and Alan would “pretend to write something down.” The administration was “scared of these kids” because of the antiwar movements increase during 68-71, “demonstrators and students would

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