Visiting Professor of Communication John Adams contributed an op-ed to the Syracuse Post-Standard (2/17/08) titled "College can light the way for vets." In it Adams recounts his college experiences post-Vietnam and writes that "One of my major reasons for enlisting in the Army was to get a college education." Adams describes how he attended a community college, and then went on to the University of California, Santa Barbara. "I'll never forget how welcome I felt at UCSB. That welcome feeling bolstered my soul, washed away a lot of fear and worry and enabled me to put my efforts into learning. At UCSB I discovered rhetoric. It lit a fire in my head. It was my bliss."
