Socially, I was much happier than I had been in college where I had felt myself the only virgin on campus and where I was insecure about my size, my age and my slow rate of physical maturation. I was back amongst old friends and there were a lot of them thanks to the sixties having created a suburban counterculture. I finished the sophomore year and took a job as an orderly at a convalescent and nursing home, the kind of job that might look good to the board. Paying my own way through school, the prospect of being pulled from school in the middle of a term was too much to risk. Then, having been at loggerheads with the DesPlaines draft board for some time for resistance, I was notified that proceedings against me were soon to begin. I was genuinely interested in study, but felt morally compelled to devote considerable time to political work and to the study of such subjects as history and political science which contributed to doing it intelligently. My first two years at Grinnell College were conflicted.
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