Eugene Robinson's First Day at Michigan (NPR Interview)

Submitted by BlueAggie on
I was driving home today and I happened to catch part of the Fresh Air interview with Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post columnist and MSNBC analyst. At 9:34 mark in the program, Terry Gross asks Robinson where he fell in the culture spectrum when he went to college in 1970. Both Robinson and his father are Michigan alums and he tells a funny story about his father showing him around campus on his first day to illustrate the changing culture at the time. Archived version: (Word of warning, to a certain extent before, and very much so after the portion of the clip dealing with the University of Michigan (safe portion: 9:34-12:22 or so) the discussion is of politics. So, uh, don't listen to that part. Or at least don't talk about it here.)
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bleuadams

December 2nd, 2010 at 7:57 AM ^

hate to start a controversy here, but things like this bother me:

If you want me to be okay with you saying things like this, then you have to be okay with me saying things like this:

"great talk from a great ... White alum.  MGoWhite!"

 

...why can't we just applaud the guy for being a great UofM alum?

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Wolveryan

December 2nd, 2010 at 12:47 AM ^

roughly 30 years after Robinson and the diversity that attracted him to U of M held for me as well.  Hail to the expansion of the mind upon opening itself to new possibilities.

 

The lesbians and Jews are awesome too.

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cp4three2

December 2nd, 2010 at 2:18 AM ^

What other political people went to MIchigan?  Also wonder if there's a split that is more even across the political spectrum than you'd guess? 

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cp4three2

December 2nd, 2010 at 11:59 AM ^

I can tell you that going to Michigan, for the very reason you said, was one of the best things to happen to me.  It allowed me to hone what I think and why.    Now I'm not as outspoken as Coulter, but I think it kind of makes sense that people like her come from places like Michigan (I remember reading a similar thing happening at Cal).

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3rdGenerationBlue

December 2nd, 2010 at 7:45 AM ^

makes me proud to be a Michigan Wolverine. I was driving to lunch yesterday and flipped on NPR - I enjoyed the interview so much I sat in my car for 15 minutes listening. The story about what he saw in front of the Union on his visit to campus was hilarious. As a Jewish kid I had similar experiences with cultural diversity in Ann Arbor and I am a better person for it. I hope all our recruits (academic and athletic) find out how much there is to learn in A2 outside of the class room and off the field of play.

It is GREAT to be a Michigan Wolverine!

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pharker

December 2nd, 2010 at 8:41 AM ^

...(as opposed to any other school's sports blog), would you find a posting of an interview with Eugene Robinson, let alone Robinson drawing inspiration from radical lesbian street theatre at the U and discovering his love for journalism by "stumbling into the Daily one day"!

I love this blog and I love this school. Go BLUE!!

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