after his sophomore year in 1966, robbins decided to drop out of kenyon college due to his unpopularity and inability to recruit students for his sds chapter. he began his summer working with the cleveland project, which was concentrating their efforts on creating an alternative school for children to attend in order to escape the perceived racial inequalities of the public school system. it was then that robbins met bill ayers and diana oughton, other sds members that were a part of the children's community in ann arbor, michigan. ayers and robbins' interest in writing became a bond between them; they collaborated for the first time, authoring a lengthy paper called "turn toward children", which discussed the educational and political philosophies of the children's community of both ann arbor and cleveland. at the end of that summer robbins left cleveland and joined ayers and oughton in ann arbor to spend some time trying to use the long history of sds to encourage more student activity at the university of michigan. robbins felt he had more in common with the members of the michigan sds. they were a much younger chapter than in cleveland and they all shared a great passion for music and sarcasm.