stay on a road trip, the bathrooms they couldn't use when they went away, the schools they couldn't attend. the positions they weren't allowed to play when they got to the pros. most importantly, quarterback. and so you have to look at these grambling players today as being part of a proud tradition of activism. and one of the things that struck me is that this is almost an exact replica of a set of issues i wrote about in my book in 1967, when student activists at gram bling used homecoming week to pay attention to the overtly racial disparities in state funding for education. well, 46 years later, the disparities are there. they're covertly racial, but the effect is the same thing. and these players put their careers on the line. they could have lost scholarships, they could have been kicked out of school, who knows what else, to call attention to budget cuts, that even when university administratorses were trying to call attention to it, two or three years ago, no one listened to them. >> and i think, roman, part of what you're saying is the