Q:  Could you tell us a little about yourself and how 
you came to know Marshall McLuhan?

A:  My name is Tom Cooper. I’m now a professor at 
Emerson College in Boston, but I knew McLuhan 
during my graduate years when I was one of his 
graduate students and became an assistant. He 
had several people around him working on projects. 
And I recall at the University of Toronto being a 
part of that very exploratory group of individuals. 
It was like an intellectual think tank, an intellectual 
talk show where people gathered on a Monday or 
Wednesday night, you could hear anyone from 
Bucky Fuller to an advertising campaign manager