After graduating from high school , Bakke went on to Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania . While there , she helped to establish a new Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS ) chapter at her college . As a member of SDS , she was involved with issues including civil rights , women 's liberation , and anti-war demonstrations . Kathy Boudin , a key figure in the Weathermen and Diana Oughton , a member of the Weathermen who was killed in the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion , also went to Bryn Mawr College . Bakke and Boudin , along with other members of the SDS participated in various protests , for example , for 24 days she refused to eat or drink in protest against the war in Vietnam . Bakke also helped end the dress requirement of women being required to wear skirts in class , and helped to unionize the " live in maids " . In her last undergraduate year , she shifted her focus to issues in the inner city rather than problems going on in the college . In the summer of 1969 at the SDS Convention in Chicago , SDS came apart . Bakke became part of a group of people , in SDS , labeled as the " Action Faction " or the " Weatherman " , that broke away from the SDS . They believed that in order for a revolution to occur , they had to take militant action to provoke it . She graduated in 1968 , but after earning her undergraduate degree in political science , Kit got a job as a journalist for a Seattle suburban newspaper with the intent of better understanding by getting an inside view of the " nominating conventions " . When reporting on demonstrations , she took pictures , interviewed participants , and wrote articles
Greenwich Village townhouse explosion
Greenwich Village townhouse explosion
Kit Bakke