John Peters:  

Here's my story. I went to college at a tiny, liberal arts, Quaker school in Indiana called Earlham College. I went there because the only other college I applied to, Oberlin, didn't accept me. My parents wanted me to go to Earlham, because both of them were from Indiana and had grown up hearing good things about it. Plus, my mother was a Quaker, and she tried to instill Quaker values in me and Jennifer, although for me, it's only in the last few years that those values have showed up. In one way, Earlham was about the worst place I could have gone. I had devoted myself to raising holy hell throughout high school, and Earlham was chock-full of leftist, pacifist, antiwar, antiracist kids from all over the country, who didn't hardly raise an ounce of hell. Within two months, I was a leftist, pacifist, antiwar, antiracist hell raiser, and since I didn't do a good job of keeping my mouth shut, I tended to stand out on campus. Plus, an awful lot of my fellow students were high achievers; many had gone to private prep schools, but even those who went to public schools were much better prepared for college than I was. If I rememb...Expand for more