So I've got this project that I have to do for my History of UVA class. I have to go read all of these surveys from people that lived on the Lawn. I'm concentrating my surveying on the 1950s and 1960s so that I can write a paper on racial integration. Here are some of the funny quotes that the Southern "gentlemen" wrote on their response forms:

William O'Malley, 1951 Graduate:

"I voted for Strom Thurman for President in the first election in which I voted. I have always been anti-liberal, anti-welfare, anti-do gooder."

Robert D. Alberecht, 1953 Graduate:

"[The classroom was] formal, respectable, interesting. No class distinction -- everyone fit in. Wonderful days that liberalism killed."

"[I disliked] nothing. I loved all my years at UVA when it was a school for conservative, Caucasian, Christian males."

"[I wasn't concerned with any issues.] 45 Years ago students were students, not activists. If more kids were students many of our problems would be ELIMINATED."

Unknown:

"I did not understand the United Nations, nor do I understand it today. My concern would be to transfer the whole operation to Greenland -- in tents."

FOR LINDSAY: Philip M. Chen, 1968 Graduate:

"I arrived at the University after attending an urban college for two and one half years. The contrast was amazing. The experience of learning at George Washington University could be likened to that of a factory. The teachers were indifferent about the quality of education; their concern was one of getting through the material. Students at GW reciprocated with a studied indifference to learning and doing what was necessary to get through."