One intense white student in the audience, however, had indeed thought it all through. Brian Steinberg, a senior political science major at the University of Connecticut, was as serious a student of Marxist-Leninism as his land-grant, Yankee Conference college would allow. On a campus of racial insularity, where fewer than 1 percent of the students were Negroes, Steinberg dated a black coed from Oberlin College and played saxophone in his father’s racially mixed rock ’n’ roll band, the Deadbeats, known throughout New England. He had also trucked with left-wing radicals, having attended an
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