Jeanne Rasche Delloff was a student of philosophy at the University of Illinois in Chicago three years ago and, by her own account, "reading Kant, Plato, Mao, Marx and Nietzsche until 3 a.m. every night." On May 6, 1970, inspired partly by her readings, she joined some 1,500 other students in a sit-in at the university's R.O.T.C. building to protest the U.S. invasion of Cambodia and the shootings of students on two U.S. campuses. Arrested for criminal trespass on state-supported property—a misdemeanor—she was urged to plead guilty. "I thought about it from all angles," she says, "and I decided...
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