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I attended Colorado State University (CSU), in Fort Collins,
from Fall 1968
to Spring 1970, precisely at the height
of the student unrest of the late 1960s.
The student movement, which started in Europe in early 1968,
spilled into the United States and
culminated
in the spring of 1970 with the unfortunate
Kent State killings. That spring, I graduated from CSU with
a master's degree in civil engineering.
While at school, one day I went to the Lory Student Center
to a meeting of
international students. My interest was to see just what was going on.
I got there early and sat in the back of the room.
As I was beginning to relax, a student from a newly independent African country suddenly approached me in
a direct and forthright manner, and said: "Where are you from?"
I said: "I am from Peru."
He said: "Oh, we are friends... you are too far away."
It was then that I began to realize that politics and geography can make strange bedfellows.
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