back in 1979 but since I was coming from an all-girls high school, I wanted to finally experience "co-ed" again and UMASS was it (at the time, Amherst had only recently gone co-ed but was still mostly male).
I can't speak for those later years post-Raygun, but I know that essentially "revolutionary" change happened among those schools during the early - late '70s, including the first black Chancellor at UMASS.
And regarding the "80 buses" - I expect there were lots of clusters of buses reserved, but not as an 80-bus contract. For example, the stories about Clarence Thomas' wife Virginia being a sponsor was found to be a hoax.
However here PA, the loon PA State Senator and seditionist Doug Mastriano (R-33/Franklin) DID spend thousands sponsoring buses, AND there were others here, who also organized bus transport -
Mastriano campaign spent thousands on buses ahead of D.C. insurrection
By Katie Meyer, Miles Bryan, Ryan Briggs | January 12, 2021
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Widespread GOP organizing
Mastriano was not the only Pennsylvania GOP official linked to orchestrating travel to D.C. last week. A review of dozens of social media pages and event listings show that at least 10 county-level GOP chapters encouraged or directly facilitated trips to the capitol.
The Cumberland County Republican Committee scheduled buses to transport Trump supporters to D.C. the morning of Jan. 6. In a Facebook post from Jan. 3, the committee exhorted its members to “continue to rally for our President and stop the steal!!”
On Monday, the committee issued its first statement on Facebook addressing the violence at the Capitol. Leaders condemned it — with caveats.
“While we denounce the violence that occurred last week, we voice our support for the thousands of PEACEFUL protestors, including two busloads of protestors from Cumberland County, who went to Washington, D.C. last Wednesday, on December 12, 2020, and on November 14, 2020, to raise awareness of the widespread fraud that occurred during the 2020 election,” the committee wrote.
https://whyy.org/articles/mastriano-campaign-spent-thousands-on-buses-ahead-of-d-c-insurrection/
The other counties noted in the article included Beaver, Berks, Bradford, Bucks, Chester, Clinton, Huntington, Lawrence, Northampton, and Snyder.
So there is a lot of reckoning that needs to happen with both the federal AND state legislators who were involved in sedition.
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