My First Sit-In

Wasn't I, just a few short decades ago, on the other side of this desk?

By ROBERT A. WEISBUCH

"Yale or Jail." That was my senior-year motto at Wesleyan in 1968. Draft resisters to the Vietnam War held a special graduation at which I was the student speaker. With bloated rhetoric, I listed the injustices of American foreign policy, beginning each point with the phrase,...