“Lowi’s class always picked me up”

I was a bit depressed as a sophomore in 1974, and Ted Lowi’s class always picked me up.

He would say things to be provocative, but you always learned something from them. I remember particularly a lecture, around 1976, where he said that we had an affirmative action NOT to vote in order to protest the political system. “I didn’t vote last time, and I’m not voting this time,” he said. “Why are you?”

Mike Livingston

Cornell Class of 1977

Professor of Law

Rutgers Law School