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One of my favorite college professors is running for mayor of New York…again. On a whim, I ran a Google News search for Gronowicz<\/b><\/a> and found this candidate profile of Anthony Gronowicz<\/b><\/a>, Green Party candidate for mayor (The Villager<\/i>, which I assume is a weekly newspaper in the city.)<\/p>\n

I had two of Dr. Gronowicz’s American history courses at the old school<\/b><\/a> in the 1995\/96-class year and they were probably the most enjoyable classes ever. He was something else — a charismatic New Yorker through and through who relished stepping on sacred cows. To say he challenged the dominant ideology on campus would be an understatement. Whenever his name would come up with other professors at Penn State, most of them got very uncomfortable, as did one of his contemporaries Eric Foner<\/b><\/a>, who gave a lecture at University Park during my junior year. <\/p>\n

His curriculum gave us Melville and Hawthorne to read in pre-Civil War history, but showed us Oliver Stone’s The Doors<\/i> and assigned Hunter S. Thompson in the post-Civil War course — he was that kind of guy. The course packet is still in my library; and even looking at it now, I give him a tremendous amount of credit for the quality of the material (The Doors, notwithstanding) he gave us. <\/p>\n

Dr. Gronowicz was (and clearly still is) incredibly opinionated, prone to semester long tangents (Malcom Forbes was one of the rankest perverts who ever lived, and now his son is running for president to clear the family name!), and overall was very stimulating. My favorite lectures were when he would get out from behind the podium and speak off the cuff — some interesting tales and theories came from those classes.<\/p>\n

Many memories remain (definitely offline<\/i>) — vivid ten years later. For my last reminiscence of I will note that at PSU Hazleton, professors usually had to pair up to share an office, and Dr. Santulli (a philosophy professor, and a son of the borough of Brooklyn — there are some good stories about him too), was paired with Dr. Gronowicz. I had Dr. Santulli’s class (the less said about it the better) my sophomore year, after Dr. Gronowicz was gone; so I had to stop in their office occasionally. Just about all that remained on Dr. Gronowicz’s desk was a little sign:<\/p>\n

TRESPASSERS WILL BE VIOLATED.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the Web: Gronowicz for Mayor<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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