That was partly because, instead of simply teaching, the sociology faculty got involved.
It was fiercely antiwar, for example. When the professors learned that students who did not maintain a certain grade point average
could lose their deferments and be drafted, they decided not to give any grades.
When the administration said, “If you don’t give these students grades, they will all fail,”
Morrie had a solution: “Let’s give them all A’s.” And they did.
Just as the sixties opened up the campus, it also opened up the staff in Morrie’s department,
from the jeans and sandals they now wore when working to their view of the classroom as a living, breathing place.
They chose discussions over lectures, experience over theory.
They sent students to the Deep South for civil rights projects and to the inner city for fieldwork.
They went to Washington for protest marches, and Morrie often rode the busses with his students.
On one trip, he watched with gentle amusement as women in flowing skirts and love beads put flowers in soldiers’ guns,
then sat on the lawn, holding hands, trying to levitate the Pentagon.
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