OPINION: Be True To Your School

In May, James Werrell, a syndicated columnist for McClatchy, speculated that the real reason behind the incident at the Cranbrook school in the spring of 1965, in which Mitt Romney, then 18, held down another student, John Lauber, and cut his long bleached hair, wasnt that Lauber was gay, but because he looked like a surfer. It was too radical to have a “bushy bushy blond hairdo, as the Beach Boys sang in “Surfin U.S.A.