[NU Sports] Duke

[Beamsley, Jeff]

Just sharing my own experience with the man.
 
Strotz kept the police/national guard off campus, allowed students to
peacefully express their concern over Viet Nam, and negotiated a method
to allow students who took time off to complete classes.  There were
plenty of other university presidents who took much harder lines and had
much worse outcomes.
 
In the years following that, he usually already had a couple of beers
and was pretty laid back and generally cordial, very accepting of what
we were doing with Amazingrace, and generally pretty liberal in his
views.  I don't remember him every saying anything about the football
team.  As far as the cultural comment, it was just an observation that
for a while it wasn't nearly as cool to be a football fan as it is now.
<g>
 
Jeff


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From: NEONRye at aol.com [mailto:NEONRye at aol.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 3:06 PM
To: Beamsley, Jeff; nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Duke


Jeff:
 
C'mon, I was an anti-war protestor and McGovern supporter, but I still
went to virtually every football game I could at Dyche.  Strotz was an
aloof figure who did not seem to be particularly concerned as to what
students felt about anything going on at NU (although my friend Mark
Ament, as then President of ASG, could probably comment better from his
own first-hand experience with Mr. Strotz), and he was, as I recall, a
strong supporter of our involvement in Vietnam.  I don't think the
problems with the football program or athletics in general were caused
by anti-militaristic sentiment in Evanston.  In fact, most of the NU
student populace was still traditionalist in many ways.  Let's put the
blame for our fall in FB where it belongs:  Alex Agase left for what he
thought were "greener pastures" in West Lafayette, but alas (Alex?), he
never could replicate at Purdue the undeniable success he enjoyed at NU,
and in his stead, our brilliant administration hired John Pont, late of
Indiana and Yale.  The rest should better be left unsaid.  
 
Paul Levinson



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