

He formed an informal group with whom he collected leftist literature and engaged in minor annoyance actions. He was stationed in Oklahoma at Fort Sill. He had trouble enlisting because of his arrest record and destroyed draft card but convinced his local draft board that he had had a change of heart. Stapp was drafted into the Army in May 1966. Frustrated by difficulties building draft resistance among other students, Stapp decided to build resistance within the military. He and three other students burned their draft cards and were kicked out of school. He became involved with the anti-Vietnam War movement on campus and served as president of SENSE, Students for Peace. Stapp participated in a sit-in on Hiroshima Day in 1965, where he was arrested for disorderly conduct and accused police of throwing tear gas into locked vans of arrestees. He began questioning the Vietnam War during an archaeology expedition in Egypt, where he learned about the country's colonial history under British rule. Stapp enrolled at Pennsylvania State University to study history.

He grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia with his older brother William. He was adopted from an orphanage by William and Martha Stapp. Stapp was born March 25, 1944, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a military nurse. He was married to Deirdre Griswold both were members of the Workers World Party. After establishing the American Servicemen's Union, Stapp was discharged for subversive activity. There he rallied anti-war sentiment, leading to two highly publicized courts-martial. Stapp began as a student activist until he was drafted into the U.S. military, in opposition to the Vietnam War. Yes, Mark Dantonio had the program among the best in the country, but there hasn’t been an ability to replicate anything close to the consistent success he had.Ĭandidates to replace Mel Tucker in a potential Michigan State coaching search, per /nwtAYwsYwTĭantonio’s name has been kicked around to return to East Lansing, and that might be the best option, because it’s going to be very difficult to work through the issues the Spartans have right now without a seasoned head coach.Andrew Dean Stapp (Ma– September 3, 2014) was an American activist known for forming the American Servicemen's Union, an unofficial union for the U.S. Michigan State is not a destination school, it’s mired in controversy and the smoke screen season of 2021 is exactly that, an abnormality. Honestly, if I was any of those coaches, I would politely decline any conversations about that job. The former Buckeye is one of seven assistants or head coaches that Staples believes are potentially in line to take over the Spartan program. With the potentially open head coaching job, On3’s Andy Staples believes Hartline is a candidate to replace him. If you haven’t been following, Michigan State has suspended head coach Mel Tucker with the most likely outcome being that both parties will part ways. It’s par for the course for Ohio State Football and its coordinators to be linked to other jobs, with the most recent one being Brian Hartline.
