Vote for a Patriot Jack Shepard or vote for a Hypocrite Norm
Coleman?
A very healthy looking Norm Coleman with his new teeth, new hair color, and new nose;
but never a brave veteran. With graduation from Hofstra looming in 1971, Coleman faced the
unhappy prospect of being drafted. But the antiwar activist had better ideas he flunked his
physical, after his crash diet. He was deemed too skinny to fight by his local Draft Board.
Norm Coleman ran down the hall screaming
'First blood of the revolution!'“ To me and Tom Buggeln
Norm Coleman sounded completely crazy ” – Dr. Jack Shepard
Tom Buggeln remembers one particularly heated confrontation with Coleman after some
antiwar students roughed up an ally who was distributing literature on campus. "I went to him
and I bitched about it, and we got into it," recalls Buggeln, now a
sheriff's deputy in Maricopa County, Arizona. The dustup culminated in Buggeln slapping
Coleman across the face, giving him a bloody lip
Norm Coleman with his Freak Flag Long Hair
Everyone called him Norman. The Brooklyn-born kid.
With his freak flag fly.
With his the rail-thin physique and scraggly hair that extended halfway down his
back, he reminded everyone of the song “David Crosby refers to long hair as a freak flag in his
song “Almost Cut My Hair, and I feel like letting my freak flag fly”
Norm Coleman was a striking presence at Hofstra University in the late '60s and early '70s.
Carting a bullhorn around campus, he'd regularly lecture students about the immorality of the
President Nixon’s administration policies and the Vietnam War.
Norm Coleman was the Abbie Hoffman of the sleepy Long Island
commuter college.
Tom Buggeln enrolled at Hofstra in 1968 after serving five years in the Navy, including a stint in
Vietnam. He resented what he viewed as the privileged college kids protesting the war and
lambasting U.S. policies. Buggeln allied himself with Young Americans for Freedom—a
conservative campus group associated with William F.
Buckley—and frequently clashed with Coleman
Tom Buggeln remembers one particularly heated confrontation with Coleman after some
antiwar students roughed up an ally who was distributing literature on campus. "I went to him
and I bitched about it, and we got into it," recalls Buggeln, now a sheriff's deputy in Maricopa
County, Arizona. The dustup culminated in Buggeln slapping Coleman across the face, giving
him a bloody lip. "He ran down the hall screaming,'First blood of the revolution! ' or some shit
like that."
Although Coleman styled himself as a hippie, he had no shortage of ambition he, “adeptly
cultivated a network of professors and administrators.” He had access to those people," says
Carolyn Sofia, who was co-editor-in-chief of the Hofstra Chronicle student newspaper during
Coleman's senior year.
"From my point of view, Norman wanted to take over the Hofstra Chronicle," says Sofia, who
now teaches writing at Stony Brook University. "He wanted to be a politician and control the
press at the same time."
The other hallmark event of Coleman's college political life occurred at the close of the 1969-70
school years. The Nixon administration had recently invaded Cambodia, and campuses across the
country erupted in civil disobedience. On May 4, Ohio National Guards men killed four unarmed
students at Kent State University. Nationwide,
violent clashes broke out between students and police on 26 campuses.
At Hofstra, students staged a campus-wide strike. Protesters took over the student center and
the main administration building lead by Norm Coleman. Classes were cancelled.
Coleman?
A very healthy looking Norm Coleman with his new teeth, new hair color, and new nose;
but never a brave veteran. With graduation from Hofstra looming in 1971, Coleman faced the
unhappy prospect of being drafted. But the antiwar activist had better ideas he flunked his
physical, after his crash diet. He was deemed too skinny to fight by his local Draft Board.
Norm Coleman ran down the hall screaming
'First blood of the revolution!'“ To me and Tom Buggeln
Norm Coleman sounded completely crazy ” – Dr. Jack Shepard
Tom Buggeln remembers one particularly heated confrontation with Coleman after some
antiwar students roughed up an ally who was distributing literature on campus. "I went to him
and I bitched about it, and we got into it," recalls Buggeln, now a
sheriff's deputy in Maricopa County, Arizona. The dustup culminated in Buggeln slapping
Coleman across the face, giving him a bloody lip
Norm Coleman with his Freak Flag Long Hair
Everyone called him Norman. The Brooklyn-born kid.
With his freak flag fly.
With his the rail-thin physique and scraggly hair that extended halfway down his
back, he reminded everyone of the song “David Crosby refers to long hair as a freak flag in his
song “Almost Cut My Hair, and I feel like letting my freak flag fly”
Norm Coleman was a striking presence at Hofstra University in the late '60s and early '70s.
Carting a bullhorn around campus, he'd regularly lecture students about the immorality of the
President Nixon’s administration policies and the Vietnam War.
Norm Coleman was the Abbie Hoffman of the sleepy Long Island
commuter college.
Tom Buggeln enrolled at Hofstra in 1968 after serving five years in the Navy, including a stint in
Vietnam. He resented what he viewed as the privileged college kids protesting the war and
lambasting U.S. policies. Buggeln allied himself with Young Americans for Freedom—a
conservative campus group associated with William F.
Buckley—and frequently clashed with Coleman
Tom Buggeln remembers one particularly heated confrontation with Coleman after some
antiwar students roughed up an ally who was distributing literature on campus. "I went to him
and I bitched about it, and we got into it," recalls Buggeln, now a sheriff's deputy in Maricopa
County, Arizona. The dustup culminated in Buggeln slapping Coleman across the face, giving
him a bloody lip. "He ran down the hall screaming,'First blood of the revolution! ' or some shit
like that."
Although Coleman styled himself as a hippie, he had no shortage of ambition he, “adeptly
cultivated a network of professors and administrators.” He had access to those people," says
Carolyn Sofia, who was co-editor-in-chief of the Hofstra Chronicle student newspaper during
Coleman's senior year.
"From my point of view, Norman wanted to take over the Hofstra Chronicle," says Sofia, who
now teaches writing at Stony Brook University. "He wanted to be a politician and control the
press at the same time."
The other hallmark event of Coleman's college political life occurred at the close of the 1969-70
school years. The Nixon administration had recently invaded Cambodia, and campuses across the
country erupted in civil disobedience. On May 4, Ohio National Guards men killed four unarmed
students at Kent State University. Nationwide,
violent clashes broke out between students and police on 26 campuses.
At Hofstra, students staged a campus-wide strike. Protesters took over the student center and
the main administration building lead by Norm Coleman. Classes were cancelled.
