Sheldon Goldfarb has been an archivist at UBC for 23 of those years. The sixties was the era that leapt out the most to him while researching and writing The Hundred Year Trek: A history of student life at UBC, Goldfarb said. Goldfarb recalled one particularly noteworthy student protest in 1968, led by Jerry Rubin, an American student radical with a pet pig running as presidential candidate. "Students liberated the faculty club — meaning, first of all, they liberated the liquor cabinets and the swimming pool and went skinny dipping and even called a band in overnight." "The sixties changed things so that there are now students on the board of governors, the senate, university committees and the university consults the students," he said.

Source: CBC News December 05, 2017 15:22 UTC