As a Michigan Daily reporter/editor who helped unseat Regent Eugene Power in 1966, Roger Rapoport, BA ’68, was persona non grata among the U-M administration till he graduated. How surprising then that in June 1967 he celebrated the modern-day “multiversity” in the pages of the Atlantic Monthly.

With a West Point diploma and two Purple Hearts, Tom Carhart, JD ’72, arrived on the Law Quad at the height of the anti-Vietnam War movement. At first, Carhart was appalled by the student protests. Soon, he joined in.

In 1965, U-M professors took the lead in stirring national opposition to the war in Vietnam. Their example inspired a new form of campus protest nationwide.

Greg Stern, BA ’00, regrets he never asked his late father about his service in Vietnam. Then the filmmaker found a family treasure that turned into documentary gold.

On Oct.15, 1969, President Robben Fleming advised U-M faculty to forgo attendance. The campus had been given over to the biggest of all 1960s peace protests.

Artisanal chocolate maker Vincent Mourou, BS ’94, knows the sweet smell of success. And it’s coming from the cacao farms of Vietnam.

Frank Beaver reflects on the timeless appeal of films from the front.

Summer. Ann Arbor. 1969. The Vietnam War is raging. That’s the backdrop for Love and Honor, a new movie rich with maize and blue talent.

50 years after the start of the war, Frank Beaver recalls his service in Vietnam and the movies the war inspired.