T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection

ABSTRACT

INTERVIEWEE NAME: Charles Teddlie

COLLECTION: 4700.0177

IDENTIFICATION: [1949 - ] Student activist and LSU professor

INTERVIEWER: Mary Hebert

PROJECT: LSU History

DATE(S): 15 September 1992

FOCUS DATES: Late 1960s to early 1970s

ABSTRACT: early political activity; family background; childhood; high school life; influential high school teachers; decision to come to college; choice of LSU; choice of majors in college; interest in Psychology; one of the few family members to attend college; paying for college; scholarship and odd jobs; first days on campus; difficulties with registration; compulsory ROTC service; refuses to join ROTC; hazing in ROTC; forced to attend football game in pajamas; attends protests against ROTC; memories of drill; dorm life; dress and hair codes on campus; curriculum in the honors division; guest lectures in honors seminars; professors in honors division; memories of English Professor Hebert Rothschild; most memorable classes; encouragement from Professor of Philosophy Ed Henderson to attend graduate school; decision to attend graduate school; influence of Professor of Psychology Irv Lange on academic growth; student activities; father becomes ill; vice-president of Progressive Student's Alliance (PSA); helps organize Cat Stevens benefit; involvement in counter-culture lifestyle; maintains high GPA; attends peace protests; benefits of the 1960s cultural revolution; drug culture on campus; first experience with drugs; changes on LSU campus resulting from 1960s' revolution; reflections on the end of the cultural revolution; Students for Democratic Society; undercover police officer Gus Tabney incites violence during PSA meetings; composition of PSA by gender and race; PSA publishes the Herpeton; changes attitude toward Vietnam veterans; main goals of PSA; memories of student activist Ted Schirmer; cooperation between PSA and Harambe, a black student activist organization; relationships between blacks and whites on campus; memories of David Duke as a student; failure of the Festival of Life held near the Atchafalaya River; Jerry Rubin speaks on campus; David Duke and followers protest Rubin's speech; David Duke's antisemitic inclinations; police harassment of PSA; student activist Avis Snelling's controversial quote in Morning Advocate; student blows up campus police cart; people arrested for indecent behavior on LSU parade ground; helps organize marijuana cigarette rolling contest on campus; memories of student activist Curtis Appleby; dislike of Dean of Student Affairs James Reddoch; helps lock Dean of Women Margaret Jameson out of her office; lighthearted nature of PSA; Dick Lehmon known as the "joint roller"; PSA organizes concert benefits; decision to go to UNC for graduate school.

Tape # 243

TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 1 hour, 45 minutes

PAGES TRANSCRIPT: 71

RESTRICTIONS: None