By most accounts, Frank Erwin was not a very nice guy. As longtime power broker of the state's Democratic Party and chairman of the University of Texas System's Board of Regents in the 1960s and '70s, to the UT counterculture Erwin embodied every imaginable stereotype of The Man. His efforts against the era's student protest movement, including an ultimately unsuccessful campaign to ban the sale of legendary alternative newspaper The Rag from the UT campus in the . . .
