Notes from the Underground

when John Colyandro arrived at the University of Texas as a freshman in 1982, he was surprised by the political climate there. Despite the political sea change in the country at large, the campus at first seemed rigidly left-wing, almost unaware of the challenges to liberal ideology that had been transforming the national debate. Colyandro recalls: “The editor of the Daily Texan was extremely left-wing politically and socially.

Editorial after editorial in the paper was atrocious. The Left staged protests constantly. It seemed a week didn’t go by without at least two.”