150 Project Lines (Updated)

(Scene 1) ADISON: And this footage from the 2015 Republican presidential debate, in Folsom Stadium

And this flyer from 1973, from something called the Hairy Bacon Bowl?

(Scene 2) MEHRAF: I arrived not knowing anyone. And coming from a very supportive environment, that was extremely tough. But my mother consistently told me, “Vel, what God has for you, He will give you everything. you. need.”

I was working as an ice cream salesman on Coney Island,

ADISON: Robert Greene

and I ran into a friend of mine and then, shooting the shit, we were saying, “where are you going to college?” “Oh, I'm going to go to the University of Colorado. Playboy said it was the biggest party school in the country.” So I sent away for the application.

KYLEE: The hills and the mountains and the snow-capped Rockies.

Great big blue sky and those welcoming mountains.

(Scene 3) HOPE: In 1954, women had to be in their dorms by 9 o'clock.

Jim Maize Jr. They called it loco parentis

HOPE: You couldn't wear slacks on campus and you had to wear heels and hose to Sunday dinner.

You really didn’t have rights as a student. You were still like a child of your parents.

(Scene 6) KYLEE: These are the words of Bernadette Stewart. In 1993, I land on this campus, and I’m immediately ignited by clubs.

Tim Russo. I found this group of students pushing for change.

KYLEE: All our offices were next to each other, so we knew when things were happening. We were constantly saying, come and support, come and support.

Divestment from the world bank. Border issues. Environmental justice. Working with the Din-A people to protect their land.

KYLEE: There were three Chicano faculty being denied tenure. So that was a rallying cry. That these faculty members are under threat because we do not have an academic home that values them.

And folks started to see that there's a lot of intersectional issues.

KUSH: So I started doing research. Looking at other schools who had done it. I started running it around to kids in the dorms, brought the idea into class. And I lobbied the Board of Regents. They said no.

All these issues began to coah-less. Coah-lition building began to happen.

KUSH: And we formed the Alliance.

And each group had different issues they were working on. So it was endless late night meetings to find points in common.

ANISHKA: We would meet in someone’s house and we’d all just be sitting on the floor for hours. What’s the strategy? How do we all agree? Who can take the risk?

There was a real sense of urgency. We'd already taken over buildings. We put paper plates on our faces that said faceless bureaucrats, and we would take over the campus tours. We’re marching hundreds of people through the dean's office on almost a daily basis. They’d just open the front door, and open the back door, and we would march through. They'd be like, here they go again. It just wasn't working. And we’re getting close to the end of the semester.

(Scene 10) BROOKE: Gayla Lindquist. We were juniors. I was on my way to a final.

Jim Maize Jr. I was just a freshman in my dorm.

MAKAI: Willis Knierim. The year I graduated and started teaching, Kennedy was assassinated.

I came back from my class, was listening to the radio, and fell asleep, and then the next thing I know, they had the news on.

BROOKE: And I ran into my professor, and he was practically in tears, and he said, “We're not having class today.”

And the campus just closed down. We just congregated in television rooms, trying to hear the news, trying to find out what was going on. There were no classes; everything just stopped. Everybody was in shock. For young people, he was somebody, you could relate to—He, you believed in him, you got behind him. Even at that age, I remember just, gosh, I'd follow the guy anywhere.

BROOKE: For three days, we just sat around the TV.

The thought of trying to go to class just didn't make any sense. You couldn’t focus. It was a grieving that needed to take place.

(Scene 11) MAIZY: I was involved in the church, so I was participating in their musicals. But then I got involved with smoking pot.

About the time the Vietnam protests really got going, the students said, "Hey, yeah, we don't have to cut our hair.”