I have a friend who went to Evergreen State (it's a "college" not "university.") He played a number of shows and jams with people like Kurt Cobain, Mark Lanegan and others of that scene during those years. He's now a high school writing teacher in South Carolina.
Even back in the late 80s, it was widely known as the furthest-looney-left of the Seattle area colleges. Let that sink in a moment. Even Portland's Reed College wasn't considered that far out. Grades and courses of study were so significantly student-driven that a truly motivated student could get something fascinating out of it, but many just got bias-confirmation no real useful skills. Then then often fueled a sort of "burn it down" mentality that is utterly counter-productive.
