Norah Jovine is not your typical 20-something. She is a very smart graduate of the University of Chicago, easily one of the best schools in the country. Among the alumni are Susan Sontag, Milton Friedman, Carl Sagan, Thomas Sowell, Mike Nichols, Bernie Sanders, Phillip Roth, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Adam Silver, David Brooks, Larry Ellison, Nate Silver, and Satya Nadella. The list goes on and on.

I worked for the University of Chicago back in 1982-83, as a fundraiser and editor of the school’s Grey City Journal, before hitchhiking to my first Rainbow Gathering on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the road less traveled by. I also took classes at the University of Chicago. I was super impressed.

So, to hear Norah say she can’t get a job as a U of C graduate, my mind exploded. How can that be? U of C produces the best and brightest graduates that America has to offer. They may be radical sometimes, but they are thinking, original, out-of-the-box radicals. What gives?

Watch my interview with Norah from the viewing deck at Chicago’s John Hancock Tower, where she took photographs of me after I descended from The Tilt, a frightening experience that causes one’s heart to leap out of one's chest as you are projected out from the Hancock Tower over the empty space below. Enjoy!

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