Excerpt

Excerpt from In My Father's Room

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My grades were bad enough though that I lost my financial aid and earned an unscheduled visit from the parents.

Before they came to me though they stopped in for a little chat with the Dean of Students. His desk sported a prominent sign that shouted, “Stop SDS!” As in Students For a Democratic Society, the premier college radical activist group for whities. Except that on our campus its membership consisted of just one guy, whose main activity was dealing, and not in political ideology.