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A common tactic in the analysis of the racial riots of the 1960s has been to eliminate riots that occurred on university and college campuses from the data set. This procedure assumed a disjuncture between urban and campus rioting especially in terms of how the prior would be related to local economic and social conditions and the latter would not. In the analysis, we show that rather than all campuses being disconnected from the local environment that, campuses were characterized by heterogeneity in their community connections. Those that had the strongest ties to local communities had the highest rates of racial disorder in the peak period of racial rioting in the 1960s, 1967-1969.