MFU Newsletter. No. 2 for Fall, 1967 [together with] No. 3 by Midpeninsula Free University - 1967

Menlo Park, CA: Midpeninsula Free University. Very Good+. 1969. 1st Edition. Magazine. B&W Illustrations; This magazine is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The magazine is generally clean and bright, with just a bit of light bumping and curling to the corners. The text pages are clean and bright. This edition includes a wanted poster for Leroy Eldridge Cleaver. The Midpeninsula Free University (MFU) was one of the largest and most successful of the many free universities that sprang up on and around college campuses in the mid-1960s in the wake of the Free Speech Movement at University of California, Berkeley and the nationwide anti-war Teach-ins which followed. Like other free universities, it featured an open curriculum—anyone who paid the nominal membership fee ($10) could offer a course in anything—marxism, pacifism, candle making, computers, encounter, dance, or literature. Courses were publicized in illustrated catalogs, issued quarterly and… Read More