Susan discusses her reasons for choosing Pembroke; her expectations for campus culture; her roommate's struggles with class differences; the social life of Pembroke; her own her peers' efforts to protest the Girls School culture, including stealing the Chimes, and a march to the Dean's house; her feelings about Pembroke's merger with Brown; the effect of national student movements on curriculum reform; and political actions including a sit-in at City Hall, the Walkout, and students turning their backs on Henry Kissinger at Commencement. 

The interview concludes with a discussion of the waning of protest movements in the 1970s; her graduate studies at Harvard and Yale; her years in the Peace Corps in Korea; the choice to leave academia; work with Ira Magaziner; and her career with labor groups.